Learning Blissymbolics

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Learning Blissymbolics on the Web Presenters Sh
irley McNaughton Kristina Ottosen
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Welcome to BLON Blissymbolics Language Online
Nexus
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A new way to learn Blissymbolics! Go to
www.blissymbolics.org/moodle BLON has been
written for Those who wish to provide
instruction in Blissymbolics AND Those for whom
Bliss is their first language who wish to learn
more about Bliss and about Bliss and reading.
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Why create this course?

• Powerful AAC graphic language
• Challenge of Time for Bliss
• Experienced teachers internationally
• Bliss users hopes and dreams
• My desire to share my knowledge
• Web provides perfect venue

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• Kristina Ottosen
• Student hired summer 2006
• Aside from Bliss and webauthoring for a small
  base of clients, she is working on her Masters
  at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario
• Her research interests are medieval literature
  (vernacularity, latinity, and the postcolonial
• Middle Ages), digital humanities, ciphers,
• and A. M. Klein
• FEEL FREE TO CONTACT HER
• kristinaottosen_at_trentu.ca

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BLISSLON Q A
Why use Moodle? When the course was being
created 2 years ago, Moodle seemed to be the best
choice. The language packs available through
Moodle (which make it possible to translate the
course into 70 languages if anyone is willing to
translate the course content) make it attractive
for this project considering that BCI is an
international organization. Not only that, but
Moodle seems philosophically aligned with Bliss.
Moodle was (and is being) built according to the
principles of social constructivism which they
define as A social group constructing things
for one another, collaboratively creating a small
culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings.
When one is immersed within a culture like this,
one is learning all the time about how to be a
part of that culture, on many levels.
(http//docs.moodle.org/en/Philosophy)
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BLISSLON Q A
The interface looks complicated. What about
accessibility? Moodle conforms to WCAG 1.0 and
the new upgrade, which our site will be
migrating to in a couple of weeks, is purported
to meet WCAG 2.0 (depending on the content that
people put on their sites, of course). HOWEVER,
to make the content of Bliss 101 Introductory
Blissymbolics and Bliss 201 Advanced
Blissymbolics easy to navigate and digest for
someone wanting to access the content using
sensitive assistive devices, I would create a
separate portal linked through Moodle but one
that is not dependent on its framework. In
addition, I would break up the content into
really small chunks and have a descriptive index
to allow the user to navigate to the content and
take it in in small sections.
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If you have any questions or comments, please
contact me at kristinaottos_at_trentu.ca
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 101
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Bliss 201 Bliss Literacy Section One
PASS Section Two BAP Section Three
Epilogue to Bliss 101
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Different Approaches Bliss 101 Lessons plus
quiz assignments Directed to Instructor Bliss
201 Tutorial and Interactive Directed to
Instructor and Learner
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Bliss 201

• Section One PASS
• Practice, Analyze, Sight words, Sounds
• - practical approach to learning to read
• - for persons who use or have used Bliss.
• Section Two BAP
• Bliss and Print
• guide to readings regarding the theory
• - for those who want to know and understand more.
  
• Section Three Blissymbolics
• Features of the Language Epilogue to Bliss
  101.
• More about the language of Blissymbolics

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Section Three Bliss 201 Epilogue to Bliss 101

• Sentence Order, Negative Conditional Sentences,
  Active and Passive Voice
• 2. Display Considerations
• 3. Vocabulary Expansion
• 4. Comparative/Superlative
• 5. Relativizer
• 6. Prefixes generalization.
• 7. More strategies Slang, Metaphor, Bliss Name.

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Section One Bliss 201 PASS Practice, Analyze,
Sight words, Sounds
P Practice with your Partner. A Analyze parts
in Bliss-words, and Print-words S Sight words
use the benefits S Sounds of letters learn
the benefits
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Reading
Reading (Authorized Bliss dictionary)
Reading (Bliss 201) Add Understanding
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Bliss 201 PASS

• 3-step Practical approach
• Sight Words
• Words to be analyze
• Sentences

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Learning with a Tutor - Using Skype and
logmein AND Interacting within Bliss Community
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SECTION TWO BAP Blissymbolics and
Print Theoretical support to PASS
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BAP CUBE
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For Resources - Welcome to my library!
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Papers on Determining Factors 1-5
1 Phonological Analysis 2 Visual Analysis 3
Language Foundation Receptive Language Expressiv
e Language Syntactic Awareness 4 Working
Memory 5 Word Knowledge
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And on Determining Factors 6-10
6 Print Processing 7 Shared Reading 8 Writing
Experience 9 Experiencing Success 10 Integrated
comprehensive continuing instructional program
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And on Influencing Factors A-E
A Vision B Hearing C Speech D Intelligence E
Method of Communication Graphic symbols, VOCA,
size of vocabulary, spelling
opportunities
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And on Influencing Factors F-J
F Family Support and Values G Educational Support
H Life Experiences I Access to Print Reading
frequency, getting books, turning
pages, computer books J Self Esteem,
Motivation
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My library contains
Summaries of papers by specialists in reading
acquisition Excerpts from papers and research by
author BCI documents Power point presentations
Reference lists, letter charts, etc.
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Further resources within the Blissymbolics
Community can be found on the BCI website.
www.blissymbolics.org
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Participants in the Blissymbolics Community
Executive and Operations Committee
BCI Board
Communications
Language
Instructor Training
Co-ordinating Committee (hub chairs)
Financial
Teaching and Learning Materials
Technology
Bliss AAC Communities Individuals
General Public
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• We welcome you to join us in this new way of
  learning!
• In Bliss 101 and Bliss 201
  www.blissymbolics.org/moodle
• In the Blissymbolics Community
• www.blissymbolics.org

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