It is common for ASL students to have questions about the content they see in
ASL videos on YouTube. This is particularly true of ASLU-related videos because
most of the instructional videos (at the "billvicars"
channel) are designed to use slides rather than full captioning (since I want
your eyeballs on the signing rather than the captioning -- plus the ability to
"figure signs out from context-based guessing" is an important skill to develop
during the language learning process).
If you have questions about specific signs or phrases you see in a YouTube video
and decide to pose your question in the comments section of the video it is best
to include the time code of the point in the video at which you have a question.
For example: ##:## (fill in the numbers and include the colon.) YouTube
automatically turns time codes into links to the specified location in the
video. That way people can click on the link and jump to the exact place in the
video to which you are referring.
I am happy to answer a few questions about ] video content from time to time
depending on my teaching and project schedules -- but it really helps me to help
you better if you'll include a time code so that I don't have to throw away time looking through a video to try to answer a question such as, "What did
he sign after the word 'desk'?"
Want to increase your chances of a timely reply? Include a specific time-code link
when asking content creators about video content.
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