Independent Component 2

Independent Component 2 Log

http://youtu.be/r5LdZciZZc4    -   Not Alone

http://youtu.be/rNywUuVbTR8   -  She Will Be Loved

http://youtu.be/_EvsarsAiwc     -    Forget You

http://youtu.be/17UnEsbMq9U    -   Party in the USA

Literal:

a) I, Alicia Sepulveda, affirm that I affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) What I did was I learned four songs in ASL/Sing signing. After I learned these songs I recorded myself performing them and uploaded them to Youtube.

Interpretive:

What I did has to be one of the toughest and most rewarding things I have ever done. It took me while to actually learn each of these songs. One might think that I could learn them in a day, and maybe that is true, but that would be a day of 24 hours non-stop working. Learning Not Alone took me quite a bit of time because it was the first one that I tried to learn. It was a slow process learning it because I had never sat down to learn a song is sign before. Then there were some signs that the person I was watching was doing that I knew differently so I had to fix it to fit my way of signing. I wasn't able to work on any one song for longer than maybe 3 hours ans some change, which meant that every time I went to practice I had to learn the parts over again. 

When I finally moved on to She Will Be Loved I had a very tough time. In that song there are so many different ways to sign any given part that I had to search for the way I wanted to sign it. I found a videos of multiple people doing the song and none of them were really what I wanted to sign. What I ended up doing for that song is working with my sister to get a interpretation that as completely my own, and then looking at another video if I was having trouble with any part of the song. It was a difficult to combine my style and the style of the person I was watching so that I could get something that was mine but was accurate. 

After She Will Be Loved I moved on to Forget You. This was the most difficult song for me to learn. Moving from nice slow songs to this was a really hard transition. The up-tempo of the song made it so that even when I was learning it I would miss words here and there. That made it difficult when I would come back another day to learn or practice and I would realize that I missed a bunch of words. When I was filming I had a very difficult time with it too, where as the other songs took me at most 13 takes this one took me about 23 takes. I would trip over my hands when I was trying to sign or I would get on a roll and someone would interrupt me and I would try to do it again and fail. 

With Forget You done it was on to Party in the USA. Party in the USA was very fun to learn at the same time that it might have been more difficult that Forget you for me. Party in the USA was the only song that I did complete ASL no real sing sign. I always wanted to add more words than I needed when I was learning PitUSA. I have a lot to thank the original signer for because he really did make it fun for me to learn. When I was filming it only took me 15 takes and I had fun every time, unlike when I did Forget You and I kept getting frustrated.

All of this took a lot out of me and was over 30 hours of work. Just the taking the time to learn the songs was 30 hours. It was harder for me to learn the songs because my mind would not accept what I was learning. It is much harder to learn ASL when I already have Spanish and English competing for my attention in my brain. It was a mental work out but I really feel that I got a lot out of all of that work.

Applied:

This helped me answer my EQ in more than one way. It honestly showed me that in order to learn sign and know how to put things together I needed to know sign language. That being my third answer it gave me confidence in it. It would have been easier for my to learn the songs if I had a great understanding of ASL but because I didn't this helped expand the working knowledge that I already had. It also showed me that even in sign signing you have to be versatile in you signing styles. You can sign word for word what a song is saying, or very much like ASL you can tell a story. Having all of that I could say that I got validation for my answers and a new explanation for my second one.

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1. I am actually not sure what I am doing for my second independent component. I might take a sign language class at Mt. Sac. Or I might learn how to perform hearing tests and perform them on people, maybe do a hearing test for the school.

2. How the sign language class would give me 30 hours is that I would have to be there 2-3 hours  a class. That means in about 10 classes I will have already completed my 30 hours. If I do the hearing tests I would have to spend at least 20 hours learning everything there is to know about performing a hearing test, how to actually perform one, and how to read the results. The rest of the 10 hours would be the time it takes to actually perform said hearing tests.

3. How the sign language class relates to my eq is that when I say assisting interpreting is one of the things that I mean. In order to interpret I would need to know sign language. Right now I know very basic sign, but by taking a class I would be on my way to being fluent. Also it would start me on my path to becoming an interpreter. The hearing tests relate to my eq because again by assisting this is one of the things that I mean. So knowing how to perform a test would help me to understand better what to do with a patient when they come to me.

Independent Component 1

Literal:
a) I, Alicia Sepulveda, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b) What I completed was a a week, starting and ending everyday during school hours, of being deaf. I also wrote a paper explaining what my week was like and what would need to be done to accommodate a deaf student at a hearing school.

Interpretive:
By doing this week of deafness I got to see first hand what it is like to be a deaf student. Doing this gave my insight that I would never get being a hearing person. Going through my life at school not being able to hear is the closest I will ever get to being completely deaf. By doing this I know and understand the deaf community more because I know and understand what exactly it is that they have to live with everyday. I did almost 24 hours of being deaf and I worked on a paper for over 6 hours. Those 23 hours and 47 minutes were observed by my teachers and by students all over iPoly. My paper I wrote for 4 hours and spent the rest of time I spent correcting and rewriting said paper. I took screen shots of my clock to show the time laps in when I was working.

Applied:
My essential question has to do with working with the deaf. By doing this independent component I was able to see what a deaf student would need and how I would need to prepare if this student where in an all hearing class. By analysing what I experienced and figuring out how it would have been better I saw what I would need to consider in assisting a heard impaired person. An example is I now know that I would have to find a way to allow my deaf student to see what other people where saying in the class. When I ask a question I need to have an effective way of getting what is said in an answer across to the deaf student. I learned that and much more about what I would need to do when working with a deaf student.

Evidence:

The screen caps of the time while I was working on my essay. They start at PM end at AM.

Link to my essay -----> One Deaf Week

Link to my Log -------> Independent Component Log

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

1) For my first independent component I plan on going deaf for a week. This means that I will be wearing earplugs (most likely wax ones) so as to block out sound and I will not be talking. For this week I would not be able to hear anything that goes on in my classes, I would have to stick to reading lips and trying to understand what it going on around me.

2) How I will meet the 30 hour requirement is I will be deaf for about 4 1/2 - 6 hours a day for 5 days. This will be witnessed by my teachers, classmates, and the rest of the school. Also at the end I will make a video showing what the best ways for a teacher to teach would be, if they were to ever have a deaf student. So in this I will have the time it takes me to actually record the video, and the time it will take me to edit the video.

3) My EQ revolves around working with the Deaf and/or hearing impaired. By doing this I will be able to see exactly what it is the people I am assisting go through. I will end up with better knowledge of their day to day life which would ultimately help me when I work with them.