SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM 2014

STREAMED LIVE ONLINE JULY 21-24, 2014
on Google Hangouts & YouTube 

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

Time schedule is based on Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
24-hour clock and then converted to UTC - GMT
(Universal Time Coordination or Greenwich Mean Time)

TIME PDT	TIME UTC	DAY 1 JULY 21, 2014	DAY 2 JULY 22, 2014	DAY 3 JULY 23, 2014	DAY 4 JULY 24, 2014	
						
8:00	15:00	Welcome Message by Moderators & Valerie Sutton	Opening Chat about events today	Opening Chat about events today	Opening Chat about events today	
						
8:30	15:30	Presentation 1 RESEARCH  “Implementation into the SWORD project of observations arising from the process of users' appropriating and adapting SignWriting” by Claudia Bianchini FRANCE  and  Fabrizio Borgia ITALY 	Presentation 11 SOFTWARE  "SignPuddle Standard For SignWriting Text" by Steve Slevinski USA	Presentation 21 SOFTWARE  “SignWriting App: A Useful Educational Tool” by Jake Chasan USA	Presentation 31 SOFTWARE  "Digital Collaboration with Machine-Readable Sign Language Text in the SignWriting Script" by Steve Slevinski USA	
						
9:15	16:15	Presentation 2 EDUCATION  “Wöhrmann's SpeechWriting used within SignWriting Documents Teaches Deaf Students Spoken Language" by Stefan Wöhrmann GERMANY	Presentation 12 EDUCATION  “DELEGS-Editor”: Software Tool For Teaching Deaf Students Spoken Language” by Stefan Wöhrmann GERMANY	Presentation 22 LITERATURE  “Once upon a time they wrote, now we (sign) write!” by Rafaela Silva PORTUGAL	Presentation 32 RESEARCH  “The relevance of SignWriting as a way of transcribing the phonology of Sign  Languages” by Roberto Costa Madson Barreto BRAZIL  	
						
10:00	17:00	Presentation 3 EDUCATION  “Ways to Write Sign Languages by Hand with SignWriting.” by Adam Frost USA 	Presentation 13 SOFTWARE  "Using SignWriter Studio Desktop Software" by Jonathan Duncan HONDURAS	Presentation 23 SOFTWARE  “TuniSigner: A Virtual Avata to Interpret SignWriting Notations” by Yosra Bouzid  Mohamed Jemni  TUNISIA	Presentation 33 SOFTWARE  “A proposal for the recognition of handwritten SignWriting for the SWORD project” by Fabrizio Borgia Maria De Marsico ITALY 	
						
10:45	17:45	Presentation 4 SOFTWARE  “SWift, a user-centered digital editor for SignWriting within the SWORD project.” by Claudia Bianchini FRANCE  and  Fabrizio Borgia Maria De Marsico ITALY 	Presentation 14 SOFTWARE  “Alternative ISWA 2010 Fonts” by Jonathan Duncan HONDURAS	Presentation 24 EDUCATION  “SignWriting in Brazilian  Deaf Education: 1996 to present" by Marianne Stumpf  Madson Barreto BRAZIL 	Presentation 34 EDUCATION  “ZNAKOPIS/ GIBOPIS (English: SignWriting) in Deaf Education in Slovenia" by Edi Strouhal SLOVENIA	
						
11:30	18:30	Presentation 5 RESEARCH  “SignWriting: examining the reading of deaf subjects by means of functional magnetic resonance (MRI)” by Marianne Stumpf BRAZIL	Presentation 15 EDUCATION  The Importance of SignWriting in Deaf Education by Mohamed Ali Balti  Fedi Bahri  Wafa Laajili TUNISIA	Presentation 25 EDUCATION  “Aspects of reading and SignWriting: case studies with deaf children & adult college students deaf & learning.” by Débora Wanderley BRAZIL  	Presentation 35 EDUCATION  “Escrita de Sinais  sem mistérios” the First Brazilian Book Teaching SignWriting” by Madson Barreto Raquel Barreto BRAZIL 	
						
12:15	19:15	Presentation 6 EDUCATION  “Literacy in a Trilingual Context using SignWriting: the Paraguayan Experience.” by Mirta Barreto PARAGUAY 	Presentation 16 EDUCATION  “Contribution of Assistive Communication and Writing Signs for Communication with the Deaf” by Enilde Faulstich Gláucio Castro Patrícia Tuxi BRAZIL  	Presentation 26 EDUCATION  “Teaching and  Learning  SignWriting in an Online Course:  Experiences of the Teacher and Students” by Madson Barreto Silvana Pereira Eva Barbosa BRAZIL 	Presentation 36 RESEARCH  “Linguistic terminological productivity between Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and SignWriting” by Vera Lima Madson Barreto BRAZIL 	
						
13:00	20:00	Presentation 7 LITERATURE  "The Complete New Testament  in Written ASL: Decade of Writing 27 books in the  SignWriting Script" by Nancy Romero USA 	Presentation 17 EDUCATION  “Teachers of the Deaf at the Center for Educational Support in Ipiaú and the Reading Readiness in SignWriting” by Madson Barreto Jorgina Souza Maria Nascimento Tatiana Coelho BRAZIL	Presentation 27 EDUCATION  “Magic Behind the Cams: Teaching SignWriting in an Online Course” by Madson Barreto Gilberto Goulart BRAZIL 	Presentation 37 RESEARCH  “Translation into SignWriting of abstracts from doctorate dissertations,  master theses and papers: a new paradigm”  by Madson Barreto Pedro Oliveira Raquel Barreto BRAZIL 	
						
13:45	20:45	Presentation 8 LITERATURE  “Encyclopedias in Written ASL: Writing 48 Articles for the ASL Wikipedia" by Nancy Romero USA   	Presentation 18 EDUCATION  “Perspective of the Deaf About SignWriting in the Brazilian City  Ipiau/ Bahia” by Madson Barreto Jorgina Souza Maria Nascimento Tatiana Coelho BRAZIL 	Presentation 28 RESEARCH  “Seeing Through Your Own (or  Someone Else’s Face): Transcribing Visual Data from the Expressive Viewpoint" by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway USA	Presentation 38 LITERATURE  “Thoughts on Sutton SignWriting as Musical Notation” by Ron Shalom USA	
						
14:30	21:30	Presentation 9 EDUCATION  "Using SignWriting to Teach Hearing American Sign Language Students: A 10 year Retrospective” by Natasha Esclada-Westland  USA	Presentation 19 SOFTWARE  "Constructing a TrueType Font for the SignWriting Script with Unicode Characters using Graphite Rendering System"  by Steve Slevinski USA 	Presentation 29 EDUCATION  “Why Should We Implement SignWriting As A Pilot Program in Deaf Schools?” by Denny Voreck USA	Presentation 39 SOFTWARE  “Practical SignWriting in Unicode” by Charles Devereaux FRANCE	
						
15:15	22:15	Presentation 10 EDUCATION   “Ordering Signs in Dictionaries” by Charles Butler USA & BRAZIL 	Presentation 20 EDUCATION  “SignAnimating” by André Lemyre  CANADA	Presentation 30 EDUCATION  “Presenting the SignWriting App to Deaf Students in Germany and Hearing Students in San Diego” by Elena Eroshkin USA	Presentation 40 RESEARCH  “40 Years Writing Sign Languages: Evolution of the SignWriting Script 1974-2014” by Valerie Sutton USA	
						
16:00	23:00	Closing Chat About Events Tomorrow	Closing Chat About Events Tomorrow	Closing Chat About Events Tomorrow	Closing Message by Moderators & Valerie Sutton	
Valerie Sutton SWS-2014 Chair
Steve Slevinski SWS-2014 Chair
Adam Frost SWS-2014 Chair
Nancy Romero SWS-2014 Chair
SignWriting Symposium 2014 Web Page http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/2014
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