marblemedia and The Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf (CCSD) have teamed up again to create the first children's animated American Sign Language (ASL) dictionary. The dictionary will finally allow deaf children to look up vocabulary according to their own, primary language -- ASL along with the English vocabulary counterpart -- without having to rely on adults for definitions.
Thanks to funding from the Inukshuk Wireless Learning Plan Fund, this rich media website will enable young children, parents, siblings and friends to interact with and learn through the use of live-action video and animation. The Inukshuk Wireless Learning Plan Fund supports the development of new online learning content and has committed to funding the first portion of the project.
The interactive site aims to be a shared learning environment for deaf and hearing children, 5 to 7 years of age, along with the adults in their lives. Another key feature of the site is its ability to simultaneously enable hearing children to learn ASL by finding words according to the English alphabet in a creative way with full live-action ASL in motion rather than through photographs.
marblemedia and the CCSD will also be speaking at the Innoversity Summit 2009 in Toronto, ON, March 9 at 2pm. This summit is an annual event for innovation, creativity and diversity in media and the cultural sector.
