Articles by JILLIAN WINN
Enhancements to Word Lists
Creating Word Lists and Sharing Word Lists, when combined with Flash Cards and Quizzing, are our most popular full member features. Today, we added a minor enhancement to creating word lists and a new shared word list of our own.
Creating word lists that are sorted by date
You can now create word lists that sort the word list by the date the words were added to the word list. This is in addition to the previous options of alphabetically or ...
Happy Holidays!
The beginning of 2011 will mark the end of our second year of being live on the Internet, and once again, we are very grateful for the support of all of our users. We particularly are thankful for our full members who allow us to continue to grow the site. And grow the site we will! We have several exciting things planned for Signing Savvy in 2011.
From all of us at Signing Savvy, we wish you joy and ...
Sign language meets dance on DWTS finale
Sign language was an integral part of Christina Aguilera's dance performance last night in the season 11 series finale of Dancing With the Stars. Check out the performance below.
Don't you think the signing really enhances the emotional impact of the song and the ...
Back to School with Several Enhanced Features
As the school year approaches, we want to let you know of a few things we have recently done on Signing Savvy particularly for teachers and students.
Many sign language teachers and professors are using Signing Savvy to create word lists (aka, vocabulary lists) of their lesson plans and then sharing them with their students. This allows the students to use Signing Savvy's online flash cards and quizzing features to quickly reinforce what they learned in the classroom from ...
New site design and functionality
We have been working hard this summer on a redesigned version of the Signing Savvy website. We are happy to make it available as of today!
The new design refreshes the look and polishes the functionality of Signing Savvy while not being so different that you have to relearn how to use the site.
One of our goals was to take advantage of some of the newer web technologies to make a better user experience. However, if you are using ...
Sign Language Phone Calls with New iPhone FaceTime
Apple announced the iPhone 4 today which will ship later this month. One of the really neat new features is FaceTime, which is mobile video calling. The demo video of the feature on their site shows a couple signing with each other.
While we have been able to videoconference for some time on a computer via tools such as Skype and iChat, with the new iPhone, we can easily sign to each other over vast distances and not be ...
Take Signing Savvy On The Road
One of the most requested features we have had to date is the ability to access the Signing Savvy website on mobile devices. First and foremost among the requests have been for the ability to access the site on the iPhone, which to date does not support the Flash-based video we have on the standard website.
Signing Savvy Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch
We are happy to announce that we now have a beta version of the Signing Savvy ...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
From all of us at Signing Savvy, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
While we worked for several years developing the site before it went live; the beginning of 2010 marks the end of our first year of being live on the Internet and we are very grateful for the support of all of our users. We particularly are thankful for full members who allow us to continue to grow the site.
In 2010, we ...
Optional Ads for Members
Signing Savvy members now have the ability to turn off advertising if they wish. You can do so by changing the preference within your account settings.Learn more about the many premium members-only features on the about ...
Our Features Explained in Video
We try to make our many features as easy to understand and use as possible, BUT we know more explanation for some of our features is long overdue. We often get questions such as how do I create my own word list? How does the phrase builder work? How do I setup virtual flash cards and quizzes? How do I print multiple words on the same sheet of paper?
To address this, we have made a series of screencast recordings! We ...