ASL Resources for Silent Time

ASL for Silent Time

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Ekaraksasa

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The more, the merrier! Be sure to include the sign meaning when you contact me. If you want to be credited, provide your name and any links you want associated with your SVGs. Then, choose one of the below!

Submit a pull request on GitHub: put your SVG(s) in /app/asl-icons and add the info to the signs object array in /app/lib/constants.ts .
Email me your SVG(s) and the other information: michael dot fitzgerald dot 1406 at gmail.com.
Message me on Reddit with the SVG(s) download link(s) and the other information: teachcodecycle

Silence Is Golden

I first thought of using sign language during silent time when I learned about the Irrelevant Speech Effect. This led me to create MagniText () because I realized that sometimes I needed to say many more words than just one to my students while staying silent. Neither I nor my students were fluent ASL speakers, so...

I decided to try it out at Maple Bear back in 2021, but it didn’t land as well as I had hoped, partly because I didn’t stick with it for whatever reason. However, at Younghoon, I put up the posters without mentioning them at all. One giant poster was next to the SMART Board, and another smaller poster was just under the analog clock.

I could have never foreseen what my students would do during the first silent time after I put up those posters. You see, those posters had a title, "Sign Language," and a subtitle, "For use during Silent Time." Well, guess what they started doing?

They started signing to me! And the funniest part was that I didn’t even know what they were doing! "Why are you moving your hands like that? Are you okay?" In the end, we learned together, and many of them LOVED it. They even asked me to create a Blooket for them to play. Let's be real — they just wanted an excuse to play more Blooket in class, but you know what? That's okay! 😂

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