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Inside Gallaudet - Gallaudet University
Students at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf made a multimedia event of Deaf Awareness Week this year. While newspapers and websites wrote about it, these students created informative video presentations. The “Eagle News” class, taught by ASL/Deaf Studies Specialist Becky Gage and TV Production Teacher Wei Wang, produced eight television pieces highlighting deaf culture and prominent deaf and hard of hearing figures. The pieces began airing on MSSD’s TV network in the last week of September and continue to run weekly.
The students’ topics include the stories of Heather “Hex” Withrow and Tournia Boren, athletes who competed in the Deaflympics; the history of the TTY; actress Alexandria Wailes, an MSSD alumna; a deaf culture lesson on getting people’s attention; Lou Ferriango, the actor who played The Hulk in the popular TV show of the 1980s; Deaf President Now and the Unity for Gallaudet/Better President Now protests; the renowned athlete William “Dummy” Hoy; and movies that address deaf issues.
“The students learned a lot from researching those issues,” Gage said. The student who created a piece about movies, for example, hadn’t been aware that actor Marlee Matlin had won an Academy Award for her performance in “Children of a Lesser God.” The student charged with researching baseball player “Dummy” Hoy learned that Hoy is credited for inventing the referee’s signals.
Researching was just part of the project, however. To produce the pieces, students shot or collected footage and then edited it using the Adobe Premier program. Gage said that this phase of the project was the hardest to do, but that the work was rewarded by the acclaim of the viewers. “The students at MSSD really enjoyed watching the Eagle News as it’s in their language--ASL,” she said.
The “Eagle News” class came about as a way to focus more on MSSD’s TV programming. Gage created the course because the projects took so much time as a co-curricular activity. Now students can get academic credit for the work that they put in, and learn more at the same time.
Students at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf made a multimedia event of Deaf Awareness Week this year. While newspapers and websites wrote about it, these students created informative video presentations. The “Eagle News” class, taught by ASL/Deaf Studies Specialist Becky Gage and TV Production Teacher Wei Wang, produced eight television pieces highlighting deaf culture and prominent deaf and hard of hearing figures. The pieces began airing on MSSD’s TV network in the last week of September and continue to run weekly.
The students’ topics include the stories of Heather “Hex” Withrow and Tournia Boren, athletes who competed in the Deaflympics; the history of the TTY; actress Alexandria Wailes, an MSSD alumna; a deaf culture lesson on getting people’s attention; Lou Ferriango, the actor who played The Hulk in the popular TV show of the 1980s; Deaf President Now and the Unity for Gallaudet/Better President Now protests; the renowned athlete William “Dummy” Hoy; and movies that address deaf issues.
“The students learned a lot from researching those issues,” Gage said. The student who created a piece about movies, for example, hadn’t been aware that actor Marlee Matlin had won an Academy Award for her performance in “Children of a Lesser God.” The student charged with researching baseball player “Dummy” Hoy learned that Hoy is credited for inventing the referee’s signals.
Researching was just part of the project, however. To produce the pieces, students shot or collected footage and then edited it using the Adobe Premier program. Gage said that this phase of the project was the hardest to do, but that the work was rewarded by the acclaim of the viewers. “The students at MSSD really enjoyed watching the Eagle News as it’s in their language--ASL,” she said.
The “Eagle News” class came about as a way to focus more on MSSD’s TV programming. Gage created the course because the projects took so much time as a co-curricular activity. Now students can get academic credit for the work that they put in, and learn more at the same time.