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Interpreting for the Live Stage
When you interpret a musical drama or a live stage event for the Deaf, you have a tremendous responsibility to be clear and precise while honoring the originating spirit of the base text. Too often on...
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Learning Foreign Languages Online
Janna and I have been professionally teaching American Sign Language — Hardcore ASL — online for over five years. We use video chat, movies, images and one-on-one interaction with our students to...
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American Sign Language Explodes on Campus
On December 6, 2010, the New York Times ran the following article — Colleges See 16% Increase in Study of Sign Language — this excellent graphic from the story demonstrates how American Sign Language...
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American Sign Language in Performance: Stop Bullying Now at Gallaudet
We know American Sign Language is the fourth most popular foreign language on American college campuses, and when you combine ASL to help battle bullying in the classroom, you begin to empower and...
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West 120th Street is the Widest Street in the World
There’s an old saying in the New York City Morningside Heights neighborhood — “The Widest Street in the World is West 120th Street.” — and the significance of that chestnut is that West 120th Street is...
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American Sign Language Classes at CUNY-SPS Off-Campus College
Janna and I are delighted to announce we will be teaching our “Hardcore ASL” style of American Sign Language as a new series of American Sign Language courses offered by CUNY-SPS — the City University...
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Teaching American Sign Language with a Stick
In the History of Bad Idea the — the worst one, in my humble estimation, is the practice of teaching students of American Sign Language with a stick. Yes, a stick made of wood. In some ASL programs,...
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Did Sign Language Save the Ukraine? Ten Sentence Story #133
There is a story on the internets telling how Sign Language helped to save the Ukraine. On Nov. 24, 2004, sign language interpreter Nataliya Dmytruk was presenting a live news broadcast on a state-run...
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Using Google+ Hangouts to Communicate in ASL Group Video Chat
I was finally able to get into Google+ this morning. I think my invitations to the service from my friends and associates were getting caught in my Gmail trash from what I can tell in my postmortem...
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Steve Jobs Replies from the Grave: From iBoles to iPad to iAuthor
When the iPad was originally introduced, I was already an Apple fanboi with iBoles and iJanna and a couple of Apple books in the pipeline — and I was especially interested in the iPad as a book...
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What's in a Deaf Sign Name? Hunter and his Gun!
The last week of August caught a firestorm in the Grand Island, Nebraska Public Schools system as administrators scrambled to recover from banning a three-year-old Deaf child named Hunter Spanjer from...
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How Baby Signs Infantilized American Sign Language
Five years or so ago, the Baby Signs movement was in full bowel, with mommies everywhere clamoring to get their babies “signing” their first words instead of verbalizing sounds. “Baby Signs,” the...
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Total Failure of the ASL-Only “Switched at Birth” Episode on ABC Family
Last night was supposed to be the premier of the penultimate “American Sign Language Only” episode of ABC Family Channel’s teenage soap opera, “Switched at Birth.” Janna and I urged our ASL students...
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Describing Skin Color in American Sign Language
Talking about Race in any situation — even in a university setting where teachers and students should feel safe to be blunt and congenial — can pack a certain, uncomfortable, stigma when bringing up...
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Ten Years of Teaching Online: 500 Free Hardcore ASL Streaming Videos!
This week, Jann Sweenie and I are celebrating our 10 Year anniversary of teaching American Sign Language online at HardcoreASL.com! As part of this ongoing decade celebration, we are now offering more...
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Buy Our Book! American Sign Language Level 5: A Field Guide for Advanced...
Janna and I are pleased to announce our latest book is now available for purchase from Amazon — American Sign Language Level 5: A Field Guide for Advanced Communication Techniques for People with Other...
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Our Latest Book! Day One: Learning American Sign Language in 24 Hours
Our second American Sign Language book published in three weeks — Day One: Learning American Sign Language in 24 Hours written by Janna Sweenie and David Boles — is now available for purchase online as...
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How to Create Effective 1080p HD Streaming Videos Using an iPhone
With the rise of the iPhone 6 Plus, video — enhanced HD video at a true 1080p — takes center stage as one of the most interesting, and infinitely valuable, features of the phone. Not only is the video...
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Return of the Deaf-Mute: Our Next Deaf Culture Conversation
Did you know there’s a troubling, but rich, history using the term “Deaf-Mute” in America? Janna and I have written a new book “conversation” about that pejorative label released by David Boles Books...
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For Deaf People Only: Our Latest David Boles Books Book!
After writing four books together in in 2014 alone, Janna and I are now pleased to announce our latest, and first, book published in the year 2015 — For Deaf People Only! — a brand-new David Boles...
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