ASL 101 - 01 Reactions to the Application of Peter Elbow's Thesis to Freesigning

 

 

An Evolutionary Approach

to Acquiring and Using ASL

Student 1

They are an extentin of your thoughts, a tool for expression, and something to lean on during class. :)

Student 2

Free signing seems it will help to access signs without stopping to think about your hand so much.

Student 3

With freesigning the mind correlates an association with movement.  With enough repetetive motions the mind will store.  I memorize the movements making it second nature.  This goes into your memory and eventually your signing becomes more fluid.

Student 4

Mr. Elbow applies to free sogning by automatic signing, babbling or jabbering or at lease signing for 3 minutes each day.  The next week signing for six monutes a day. To never stop signing till the time is up.

Student 5

Practicer is always good.

Student 6

I feel that I should be able to freesign by now.  Do we all have to get flash cards?

Student 7

Elbow applies to feesigning exercises because it is the same idea.  If we freesign it is practice.  We just sign and go on.  It helps with ideas and helps to produce better work.  Freewriting is helpful in writing.  I can see where it would be helpful with signing.

Student 8

If we don't stop signing, a concept may come out of nothing.  It will relaz out body making it easier to sign freely.  We will work through the blocks on our animation improving our imagination and capability.

Student 9

It applies because the more we practice different signs, the more we remember them.

Student 10

Like freewriting, freesigning will help loosen your mind, making you think without realizing what you are doing.  You get into a flow.  It may also help you realize what signs you need to work on to help with cnversations.

Student 11

I think it's a cool idea.  I actually might try the writing portion of it sometime to improve my writing skills.  Freesigning will take practice for sure,  it was cool watching your freesigning video.

Student 12

Practice makes perfect, anything you do to help you remember and get more comfortable with writing like Elbow discusses or with signing.  Eventually you can become fluent in writing or in signing if you practice like Elbow says.  In both writing & signing your hand becomes fluent.

Student 13

Elbow applies to freesigning in a way demonstrates freewriting.  Just keep signing no matter if you make mistakes.  You can always get better along the way.  If you continue to stop signing and think too hard on what it is you are trying to say, you will always be stuck.  It's okay not to know, but to always keep trying.

Student 14

Using your Elbow's is important.  I think it helps keep your posture better and sign correctly.

Student 15

You want us to sign and not worry about messing up.  This way we can get used to signing.  I think it might be hard to sign for 10 minutes without stopping right now but I will try.

Student 16

You can sign what you learn in class and from that, reinforce the class lecture.  If you constantly sign what you know, you could find it easier to connect signs and get comfortable with H-deletion.

Student 17

To improve someone's writing by using the freewriting exercise is to show them all the errors within the writing.  I write everydau to improve myself.

Student 18

I think that Elbow applies to freesigning exercises in the same principlt that it does to writing.  It allows us to practice and helps us to remember what we are learning, even if it is the same thing over and over again.

Student 19

I think it serves to enhance our vocabulary past what we "think" we know, and to help us figure out what we need to focus on.

Student 20

I think it applies because freesigning would help the student with recall.  It would be interesting to try and see if I could remember all the signs that I want to "say."  And after doing it 3x a week like Elbow says, I think everyone would feel more confident.  I can sign behind closed doors, no problem, but doing it in front of peers is a different story.

Student 21

I think Elbow applies to freesigning exercises because you have to constantly be thinking...thinking of what and how you are going to say next.  I think this helps exercise your mind and stimulate your imagination.  Wait...Are we supposed to be doing this right now?...oh funny at least I keep kept writing...Oop I crossed that out.

Student 22

Elbow applying to freesigning.  I don't know exactly what freesigning is so I don't know how Elbow applies.  I'm not sure what else to say.  I am stuck now.  What is freesigning?  I'm squiggle squiggle.  I know why the traffic is bad, there is a fire in West Linn.

Student 23

I think using "freesigning" would be a great tool to help us learn.  If you make it fun, it'll stick in your mind easier.

Student 24

I do this many times.  Just to do my writing homework.  It really helps to understand how you train functions when you are writing down whatever comes to mind.

Student 25

It seems to be a very helpful way to get your signs to flow together instead of being "choppy."  It is intimidating when you don't know many signs though.

Student 26

I can see that it just promotes us to utilize all the signing abilities that we have.  I might even help one realize that there has been more ASL learned than originally thought.

Student 27

I guess we just use the Elbow method in the same way just using sign language...even if you don't know how to sign a word, keep on signing whatever comes to your head.