Announcement from Rosemary Stifter

Teacher and Staff,

The Clerc Center has been involved with two research projects with Vcom3D (http://www.vcom3d.com/index.htm), a company in Orlando, Florida that has developed 3D character animation technology.

"Life-like, Expressive Avatars for the Instruction of Deaf Learners" funded by National Science Foundation project will develop a system for creating animated stories and related instructional materials in ASL.

"The Handheld Computer as Reference and Translation Device of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing K-12 Students" funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services will investigate how educators can create content using the animation technology for mobile devices.

Jason Hurdich the principal investigator from Vcom3D will be here on Tuesday, November 6th to demonstrate the sign language animation technology at 3:15 in the TecEds lab. If you are interested, please come to TecEds lab at 3:15 PM on Tuesday. If you cannot make the time but are interested in seeing demo, please contact me.

Thanks,
-Rosemary Stifter