Analyse de l'application Hawes and Mills' Adventure pour le 29 juillet

The Hawes and Mills’ Adventure! is a bilingual ASL/English storybook app created by a team of staff members and alumni from Wisconsin School for the Deaf. This app was made possible by the support of Wisconsin School for the Deaf, Parent & Staff Association and the generous support of numerous friends. The project was done through Gallaudet University’s Motion Light Lab training program on bilingual storybook apps. This program is funded by Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation. The ‘Hawes and Mills’ Adventure!’ story follows a special friendship between a chipmunk and a thirteen-lined ground squirrel. Hawes and Mills take us through their adventure to find delicious sunflower seeds. The story includes some historical connections to the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Viewers will enjoy Davianna Daniels’ beautiful artwork from Hawes and Mills’ perspectives while imaginations will come alive viewing Tom Harbison’s captivating ASL taking through Hawes and Mills’ experiences. This storybook app is a great way to make connections to character development, social emotional learning, forest animals, life cycle, seasons and sunflower seeds. App features the following: -200+ vocabulary words signed and fingerspelling in LEARN mode -Page by page with English text and ASL videos in READ mode -Highlighted words to click and view ASL signs -Full ASL storytelling with animations in WATCH mode Original art is by Davianna Daniels ASL storytelling by Tom Harbison Story was created by Karla Gunn, Tom Harbison and Casey Kelly App development by Casey Kelly and Motion Light Lab Project led and managed by Karla Gunn and Casey Kelly Special Thanks: Rene Ambrose, Dianne and Tom Armato , Lisa and Scott Burckhardt, Davianna Daniels, Amy Dignan, Rebecca Epple, Darrick DuBois, Susan Dupor, Lucinda and Tracy Inches, Tom and Kathryn Harbison, Kim Holub, Donna Karpas , Milton and Joy Lee , Brian Lievens , Lori Lindau, Therese and Dave Markowitz , Alyson Urdahl, Martha Vandenbusch, Wisconsin School for the Deaf, Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Parent Staff Association and the Department of Public Instruction