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Ideas of "persuasion" and "motivation" are really interesting and perhaps we should take stock of how to facilitate that within the forum: [1] B. J. Fogg and Daisuke Iizawa. Online Persuasion in Facebook and Mixi: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Persuasive Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008.

This is also really cool, how to get people engaged: [2] Amy Jo Kim. Putting the Fun in Functional.

[3] Signing Science Dictionary from VCom3D.

Comments: Using avatars in a look-up style dictionary. Alphabetical order or order by topic. Signs are shown individually and within an example sentence. Not clear how they decided which signs to include.

[4] Jan Richards, Deb Fels, Jim Hardman, George Zamfir, Martin Gerdzhev. Signlinking 2.0 Technology And Deaf Education: Exploring Instructional and Access Technologies Symposium, NTID, Rochester, NY June 2008.

Comments: A way to link videos together from within the video. Something like this would be useful for the forum rather than referencing "sign #78" or whatever.

[5] Laura Braggiotti. Technical Signs in Context Program Series. Poster Session at Technology And Deaf Education: Exploring Instructional and Access Technologies Symposium, NTID, Rochester, NY June 2008.

Comments: Recording from deaf scientists and deaf professors in lecture and in natural settings used to device signs for DVD format dictionary.

[6] Gary Quinn and Rachel O’Neill. Developing a Bilingual Online Glossary of Science Signs: An Evaluation. Technology And Deaf Education: Exploring Instructional and Access Technologies Symposium, NTID, Rochester, NY June 2008

Comments: Small group of researchers, deaf scientists, interpreters worked together to develop 250 signs for science topics and then disseminated them online in a dictionary format.

[7] Rosemary A. Stifter and Julie Longson. Building a Community of ASL Signers with VoiceThread. Technology And Deaf Education: Exploring Instructional and Access Technologies Symposium, NTID, Rochester, NY June 2008

Comments: Facilitates group conversation (voice, video, sign ...) with pods around a central point of discussion (slides, video, ...). Cool tool, could be used for anything. Not same intention as discussion about language. Link to VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/#home

[8] Lifelinks Tutors Foundation A non-profit corporation, is offering to provide free on-line video tutoring services to assist deaf children with their homework. This is the first time that any company has offered to provide free tutoring services on a "one-on-one" basis through a direct connection between the deaf student and the tutor. No interpreter is involved. Most of the tutors are deaf and teach in schools for the deaf during the daytime. Most also have advanced degrees in education and certification form universities for the deaf such as the Rochester Institute for the Deaf and from Gallaudet University. The deaf student sees a photo of the available tutors arranged by subject: history, English, math, science, social studies, etc. The student merely clicks on the available tutor and is connected within 10 seconds.

[9] The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Deaf educational access for computer science. http://www.shodor.org/succeedhi/, retrieved November 2007.

[10] National Science Digital Library. http://nsdl.org/, August 2007.

[11] Harry G. Lang. Clearinghouse on Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science (COMETS). In National Science Foundation Grant HRD-9550468, (In progress). http://www.rit.edu/ comets/signs.htm.

[12] Harry G. Lang. A study of technical signs in science: Implications for lexical database development. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (12:1):65–79, 2006.

[13] [14] Geoffrey S. Poor. American Sign Language Dictionary and Inflection Guide. A Poster Session at the Instructional Technology And Education of the Deaf Symposium, NTID, Rochester, NY June 2001. (Also at 2008).

[15] Rosemary Stifter. Integrating Technology and Literacy: Digital Video Dictionary. Instructional Technology And Education of the Deaf Symposium, NTID, Rochester, NY June 2001. (Also at 2008).

[16] Thomas Allen. Science of Learning Center (SLC) on Visual Language and Visual Learnings (vl2). http://vl2.gallaudet.edu/, 2007.

Comment: Linguistic project studying ASL acquisition, progression, and development.

[17] Ann E. Kelley Sobel, Joseph C. Hill. Enhancing the learning environment of deaf students. ACM SIGCSE (June 1999), Volume 31, Issue 2, 71 - 72.

Comment: Somewhat diary-style account of one teacher's experience with one deaf student. However, we could site this as an example of how accommodations, interpreting, and new signs are often developed on a case-by-case basis and rarely have broader affects on the deaf community or the language as a whole.

[18] R A McIntosh, L Sulzen, K Reeder, D H Kidd. Making Science Accessible to Deaf Students: The Need for Science Literacy and Conceptual Teaching. American Annals of the Deaf, v139 n5 p480-84 Dec 1994.