Jentry Dutton

    Hey guys!! I hope all is going well for you guys! I realized that last week I said in my blog that it was the last week of genius hour, but I guess I was wrong. So because we do have this week I decided to learn colors. Colors recently came up in my pathway and I knew none. Yikes.          To my surprise colors were incredibly fun and easy to learn! The colors I learned are yellow, red, blue, green, orange, silver, pink, purple, gold, white, and gray. These were all pretty easy to learn and the way you signed the majority of them was to make the sign of the letter the color starts with and shake it.          Since this actually is the last genius hour, thank you all for the positive comments on my blog! I have enjoyed looking at all your blogs! I have copied a visual of how to sign four colors :)

           Hey guys, I hope you all have had a great week so far ! This week is a wrap up week and because of that I have decided to practice my opening sentence for my shark tank presentation. I also reviewed all of my previous lessons and words that I have learned. It's crazy to think this our last week of genius hour!     While I have learned a good amount of sign through out this time, I believe that sign is something you continue to build and add onto over time. I think the more I'm around people in the deaf community and people who use sign communicate the more I will improve. I hope that the more time I spend using sign in the deaf the community that my vocabulary will broaden and signing will become efficient.     Thank you all for the positive comments and interest shown on blogs! I hope you all had success in your first genius hours!  

      Hey guys! Welcome back to the blog! I haven't been following my initial outline very closely, I thought why not shake things up again and take his week to learn about the ASL culture! I read a couple articles that really gave me some insightful knowledge. The first article I read was from Minnesota Hands and Voices. The article talked about the deaf community and the benefits of being involved in it. Being involved helps improve one's self esteem, gain fellowship and respect the use of sign language.      The second article I pretty much covered the same topics as the first one. It talked a bit more about how to properly identify a deaf person. The appropriate terms are "hard of hearing" or "deaf". Offensive terms toward a deaf person is "disabled" or "hearing impaired" are offensive. I also watched a video on negation in ASL. To make a sentence negative the most efficient technique is to shake your head.      All in all this week w...