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  • Advanced American Sign Language Workbook

    This workbook which accompanies the series is designed to assist learners in developing ASL skills through self-paced modules augmented by formal ASL classes. The combination of self-study and classroom instruction facilitates self-assessment and supports the skills essential to language learning.

  • Body and Gaze Shift in ASL / Classifiers in ASL / Space in ASL

    Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: identifying a narrator and characters of a story using Body and Gaze Shift; determining the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives using ASL Classifiers; and the use of Space in ASL to establish a location for a particular referent’s discourse.

  • Affect in ASL / Transition Markers in ASL / Grammatical Structure in ASL / Disco

    Follow along with this next set of programs as the advanced techniques for ASL are augmented to include: the use of facial expressions to express Affect in ASL; the Transition Markers required to guide the flow of discourse in ASL; the importance of a signer’s entire signing space to identify Grammatical Structure; and the identification of the topic(s) of Discourse.

  • Subjects and Objects in ASL / Fingerspelling in ASL / Numbers in ASL

    The last set of programs in this advanced series covers the following integral facets of ASL: identifying the Subject and Object of a sentence and the inclusion of spatial referencing; clarifying the context of a discourse using Fingerspelling; and the elements to consider when signing Numbers in ASL.

  • Framing Richler / Mordecai in Montreal

    Framing Richler – This program is intended to serves as a catalyst for debate and discussion about Richler and his writing, in part this conference is intended to redress the discrepancy between Richler’s huge public profile and his under-representation in literature studies across the country. Mordecai in Montreal – Montreal for Mordecai was inspiration, an imaginative landscape for his fiction and an opportunity for political commentary and satire and more importantly it is where he lived in every sense.

  • Is Richler Canadian Content? / Why Richler Matters?

    Is Richler Canadian Content? – Today we can only imagine what wonderful acerbic comment Mordecai Richler would have had to say about the question before this distinguished panel “Is Richler Canadian Content? Delve into, and discuss this topic about the controversial author. Why Richler Matters? – This series has tried to study Mordecai Richler from as many perspectives as possible, watch and listen to the following speakers offer there point of view on why Richler matters.

  • ideaCity04

    In its brief history the annual ideaCity Conference has become a celebrated venue where interesting people say important things about the world. ideaCity04, held in June 2004 in Toronto, once again brought together some of the most fascinating and influential personalities of our time, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Anita Kunz, Robert Bateman and Lewis MacKenzie. This 18-part series offers thought-provoking ideas and memorable performances, from the 2004 conference, all on 4 DVDs.

  • ideaCity05

    In its brief history the annual ideaCity Conference has become a celebrated venue where interesting people say important things about the world. ideaCity05, held in June 2005 in Toronto, once again brought together some of the most fascinating and influential personalities of our time, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Craig and Marc Kielburger, Gord Downie and Veronica Tennant. This DVD series offers thought-provoking ideas and memorable performances, from the 2005 conference, all on 5 DVDs.

  • Negative Peer Pressure/ Defiance/ Rules

    Parenting – no one said it would be easy! But who said it would be this hard? Through this enlightening 4 part series of videos, Dr Ron Clavier, a doctor of psychology explains the neurological underpinnings to the behaviour of young people, taking the mystery out of why our kids act the way they act, think the way they think and just what it is that parents, can do to weather the storm! Program two of this series deals with Negative Peer Pressure – strengthening their ability to withstand peer pressure, Defiance – setting limits and boundaries that still allow for identity development, and Rules – including teenagers in the rule making process and encourage them to speak up for themselves. (3 x 24:00)

  • Independence/Sexuality/ Relationships

    Parenting – no one said it would be easy! But who said it would be this hard? Through this enlightening 4 part series of videos, Dr Ron Clavier, a doctor of psychology explains the neurological underpinnings to the behaviour of young people, taking the mystery out of why our kids act the way they act, think the way they think and just what it is that parents, can do to weather the storm! The third program of this series deals with Independence – helping teenagers gain confidence and responsibility, Sexuality – delve into the sensitive subject of sexuality and how generational and cultural attitudes of adults clash with their teenagers on age appropriate sexual behaviour, and Relationships – what are we teaching our teenagers about commitment, and fulfilling partnerships. (3 x 24:00)