Make Sex Normal 2/16/17

Initial gut reaction 1-Not at all   10-Yes, definitely

Did I convey presenter’s overall message? 7

Did I deliver the interpretation with confidence? 7

What is the presenter’s purpose?: Educate people

What is the presenter’s attitude toward the topic?: (emotive, excited, lethargic…) She is emotional and passionate. She wants to share the importance of her topic and share the fact that we have to start a discussion.

What was the presenter’s language quality? (clear, redundant, evasive, tangents…) She spoke clearly and understandably. 

How was the audio/visual quality? Good

How did the presenter structure the presentation? Lecture style, but she kept the audience engaged by sharing personal experiences form her own life and stories she heard while researching the topic.  

Did the source text use any culturally bound information or topic-specific jargon?  There was a lot of topic specific jargon related to sex. There was also culturally bound information because Americans are not comfortable speaking about sex and our bodies.  I think this information is important because it is why we don't talk about sex or share with our children.  

Brief notes:  I think I started out strong and then at the end it got a little harder to process. I felt myself using the sign DISCUSSION a lot so I want to change that when I interpret next time.  At the end when she shared the quotes from her research I applied "Gish Up" because I didn't catch the full quote, but got the idea.  I think my use of space was a little unclear when she told the story about her mom and grandmother too so I'll be interested to watch that when I analyze my video and see what I actually did. 

Racism 2/16/17

Initial gut reaction 1-Not at all   10-Yes, definitely

Did I convey presenter’s overall message? 8

Did I deliver the interpretation with confidence? 8

What is the presenter’s purpose?: He wants to educate people and start a discussion.  

What is the presenter’s attitude toward the topic?: (emotive, excited, lethargic…) He is passionate about the topic. He really wants to educate people on the importance of discussing this topic and teach them what it means. 

What was the presenter’s language quality? (clear, redundant, evasive, tangents…) The language quality was clear, but sometimes when they switched speakers or introduced someone new it was a little difficult to tell. 

How was the audio/visual quality? It was okay quality. Sometimes I didn't understand everything they said because there were some asides, but overall, good. 

How did the presenter structure the presentation? It was a discussion. 

Did the source text use any culturally bound information or topic-specific jargon?  There was a lot of topic-specific jargon including red lining, food stamps, share cropping, white privilege, white supremacy, color blind.  Almost everything related to the topic is topic-specific jargon because the words were created to explain or describe these ideas/events. 

Brief notes: It really helped to have learned the vocab words prior to interpreting this!  I think I did okay in the beginning, but it got harder as the video went on.  Sometimes I didn't know how to explain in ASL what he was describing in English.  I felt good about my facial expressions which sometimes I know I ignore.  I felt myself looking away a lot so I need to improve my eye gaze.  I think I was trying to understand the content and I tend to look away when I'm trying to figure out what's going on.  There were a few times when I couldn't figure out how to sign something and I think I really need to work on expansion skills and need to teach myself to show the concept as best I can when I can't think of a sign or single word.

Academic ASL 2/9/17

Initial gut reaction 1-Not at all   10-Yes, definitely

Did I convey presenter’s overall message? 6

Did I deliver the interpretation with confidence? 5

What is the presenter’s purpose?: He's educating his audience on the importance of Academic ASL.

What is the presenter’s attitude toward the topic?: (emotive, excited, lethargic…) He's passionate about the topic. 

What was the presenter’s language quality? (clear, redundant, evasive, tangents…) He was clear, but fingerspelled a bit too fast for me to understand a lot of the words. 

How was the audio/visual quality? Good.

How did the presenter structure the presentation? He used powerpoint slides to support his presentation.  He listed journals and organizations. 

Did the source text use any culturally bound information or topic-specific jargon?  There were organizational references using acronyms in relation to interpreting.

Brief notes: That was rough. I think I left out a ton of information because I was trying to figure out the best way to say what I thought he meant.  I struggled to understand one part at the end because I couldn't figure out what he was trying to say-I tried using the context around it, but I'll definitely watch that part again. I don't think I had a lot of emotion in my voice, but he seemed very passionate about the topic so I think I should've shown that more through my voice inflection. I think this will be a video that I watch without interpreting and understand a lot more because I think he signed very clear, but I just missed a lot of it.  I also think I spit out a lot of random words that I recognized, but didn't connect them to a sentence.  When he listed something or I didn't understand a lot, I tried to just say what I did understand. I need to put out complete thoughts though!

I think doing the padlet and mind maps may help more when we voice because then we look up words related to the topic and then can use those during the interpretation. 

Ethics 2/9/17

Initial gut reaction 1-Not at all   10-Yes, definitely

Did I convey presenter’s overall message? 8

Did I deliver the interpretation with confidence? 8

What is the presenter’s purpose?: He wants to educate people about the need for CDIs.

What is the presenter’s attitude toward the topic?: (emotive, excited, lethargic…) He is passionate about the topic and very clear in his views on the issue. 

What was the presenter’s language quality? (clear, redundant, evasive, tangents…) He was clear and to the point. He gave good examples that supported his ideas. 

How was the audio/visual quality? He was a little unclear, but I could understand what he said. 

How did the presenter structure the presentation? He had clear questions that he presented and then offered his opinions or solutions to the prompts. 

Did the source text use any culturally bound information or topic-specific jargon? The whole topic was culturally bound and used topic-specific jargon. CDI is something that most hearing people (outside of the interpreting community) would not know.  I think he was talking to interpreters, but after typing this, I feel I should have said in the beginning Certified Deaf Interpreter to clarify the meaning.  

Brief notes: At the end, I missed some of what he said so I need to go back and try to figure that part out. I think I did pretty well on this though. I think I understood a lot of his information, but I need to work on my presentation. I am focusing so much on getting the words out that I forget to put forth the emotion that the signer is showing. I'm proud of this interpretation. It wasn't perfect, but I think I understood most of what he said and didn't miss too much information until the end when I struggled a bit more. 

Copy Signing Experience

Deaf Awareness Month with Ben Bahan & The Significance of Deaf Interpreters Conference

Why is this helpful? It is a good transition from understanding language while reproducing it in the same language to understanding language and interpreting it into a different language. This is a great exercise if you feel you understand signers when you are not interpreting for them, but then lose the message when your voice turns on.

Copy signing is helpful because I don't have to think about the correct way to sign something. I was proud that I still understood a lot of the presentation even though I struggled to keep up with their signing. I skipped many fingerspelled words, but overall I think I did pretty well.  Not understanding all those fingerspelled words shows me the importance of practicing my receptive skills! I enjoyed copy signing the second video because I feel as though I incorporated/copied the signer's facial expressions well.  I struggled a little at first to simultaneously copy them and understand what the conversation was about, but as I kept going I understood more and more.  After a while I was simply understanding what they were discussing and could focus more on copying the correct body language facial expressions, non manual markers, and use of space.  Overall, I missed some words and concepts, but feel this exercise helped me produce more natural, fluid ASL because I wasn't so focused on interpreting.

Comptroller 2/2/17

Initial gut reaction 1-Not at all   10-Yes, definitely

Did I convey presenter’s overall message? 4

Did I deliver the interpretation with confidence? 4

What is the presenter’s purpose?: Educate the audience about their budget plan and current financial standings. 

What is the presenter’s attitude toward the topic?: (emotive, excited, lethargic…) The presenter spoke formally, was very clear and to the point. 

What was the presenter’s language quality? (clear, redundant, evasive, tangents…) The presenter spoke clearly and got to the point quickly with each topic. 

How was the audio/visual quality? good

How did the presenter structure the presentation? His was a prepared speech.  He used powerpoint slides to show/support his information through graphs and charts. 

Did the source text use any culturally bound information or topic-specific jargon?  There was a lot of topic specific jargon related to the government and the finances related to the state's employment rates and wages, etc.

Brief notes: I kept messing up the number millions and billions. I should spell them out so that I don't confuse my clients.  I had trouble explaining a lot of what he was talking about.  His speech was slower so it was easier to follow than the LDS report, but I still struggled to form the information into ASL. I did prepare to know what FY was (fiscal year) but I should've included the short handed FY into my interpretation.  I think I missed some information and then threw a number up with no association to anything I signed prior to or after. I definitely need to practice signing bigger numbers because I take too much time thinking about what I'm doing with the numbers and miss a whole bunch of information. 

Time Management 2/2/17

Initial gut reaction 1-Not at all   10-Yes, definitely

Did I convey presenter’s overall message? 8

Did I deliver the interpretation with confidence? 8

What is the presenter’s purpose?: Educate the audience on time management in college

What is the presenter’s attitude toward the topic?: (emotive, excited, lethargic…) Desire to share his knowledge/help students succeed

What was the presenter’s language quality? (clear, redundant, evasive, tangents…) clear, emphasized important parts

How was the audio/visual quality? good

How did the presenter structure the presentation? 

Did the source text use any culturally bound information or topic-specific jargon?  There wasn't a lot of topic specific jargon or cultural information.  The speaker was generally speaking about how time management would help students do better in school and in life. 

Brief notes: I think I did okay on this. I tried not to have too much lag time because sometimes I overdo that and get confused on signing and listening at the same time.  I felt good about using lists and keeping up with the speaker.  I used the tools available (the slides) to help me when I wanted to understand a concept or if I missed the speaker's sentence.  My mentor and I are working on my confidence so before this video I told myself I could do it and to think like my  mentor and I think it helped me. I felt a little bit more relaxed and think I produced a more complete message than I sometimes do.