Organizing Dialogue, Experience and Knowledge for Complex Problem-Solving

Action Planning for Emergency Management Interpreting

by • June 28th, 2013

This video introduces the “After Action Review” process as a tool for improving communication accessibility to information and services for the American Deaf community during disasters.Cast: Stephanie Jo KentTags: CT EM Interpreting – Deaf Prep, int…

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Holding Time: The Significance of Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs)

by • June 4th, 2013

Communication researcher Stephanie Jo Kent asks Deaf elders if her ideas about community interpreting are any good. Featuring Winchell and Ruth Moore.

English TRANSCRIPT available at reflexivity.us/wp/2013/06/transcript-for-holding-time/

Cast: Stephanie Jo Kent

Tags: Deaf Elders, ASL, CDIs, interpreting, Certified Deaf Interpreters, Deaf Culture, timespace and intercultural communication

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Emergency Interpreting for Nemo in Massachusetts

by • February 14th, 2013

This video explains why Fox 25/Boston’s Doug VB Goudie promoted violence against Deaf people with his mockery of the sign language interpreter provided during MA Governor Deval Patrick’s Press Conference. VB’s dismissive attitude toward communication a…

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Appealing to a greater vision for INTERPRETING

by • January 6th, 2013

Response to Stephanie Clark’s vlogs about linguistic equality (between American Sign Language and English) and training for Certified Deaf Interpreters. Training and dialogue in ASL are stepping stones to bigger challenges: such as creating a market for CDIs to get work and choosing to trust each other as allies even when we sometimes let each other down. If we focus on the bigger goal, more of the necessary steps will fall into place naturally.

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lost in language and information

by • March 8th, 2011

excerpt from a video by sichenchina for VOST2011, Visions of Students Today, a Digital Ethnography project by Michael Wesch, Kansas State University.Cast: Stephanie Jo KentTags: VOST2011, language and learning

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Commerson on Re-Constituting Deaf

by • March 8th, 2011

excerpt from Re-Defining Deaf by Ryan Commerson, drawing on the work of Stuart HallCast: Stephanie Jo KentTags: Deaf, cultural production and representation

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Distinguished by Pedagogy: Learning Labs for Resiliency

by • November 6th, 2010

Potential faculty introduce the vision for a combined education and consulting initiative aimed at complex systems redesign.Cast: Stephanie Jo KentTags: resiliency, pedagogy, online education, local knowledge, systems change, design and discours…

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That’s so #DEAF!

by • August 2nd, 2010

Introduction to a keynote address on the American Deaf Community’s decades-long activism in reclaiming simultaneous interpretation as a community resource.Cast: Stephanie Jo KentTags:

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