CEUs information regarding the the November 13, 2023 "ASL Idioms, Puns, and Interesting Signs" workshop:
TLDR: CEUs did not work out. You can get a pretty certificate of attendance though.
For general information about the "Idioms, Puns, and Interesting Signs" workshop see: https://Lifeprint.com/webinar\idioms/2023-11-13/index.htm
For Questions and Answers regarding CEU's for the November 13, 2023 "ASL Idioms, Puns, and Interesting Signs" workshop -- see below.
Question: I participated in the webinar, filled out the quiz at the end, and still have not received the CEU’s. When will they post to my RID account?
Answer: The CEU's didn't work out. Also, to be clear, CEU's were never promised.
At the end of the webinar the PowerPoint displayed stated:
"If you'd like info about how to apply for possible CEU's scan and answer the ?s"
An important word on that PowerPoint was the word "possible."
In the published Q and A prior to the webinar the official answer to the question "Are CEU's available for this webinar?" was:
"Not yet, we are working on it, so maybe."
An important word in that sentence is the word "maybe."
This free webinar was never intended to be a CEU earning opportunity for RID members. The webinar started out as just Bill Vicars doing a nice thing for an ASL teacher that asked he would "visit" her ASL class. Dr. Vicars replied "Sure!" and we decided to open it up to the public.
Then BOOM we very quickly maxed out the Sac State Zoom webinar license at 3,000 registrations for what was intended to just be a little classroom visit.
People (or more specifically, working interpreters engaged in certification maintenance) started asking if there would be CEU's.
That wasn't the plan but we thought it would be a nice thing to do if we could so we responded "Not yet, we are working on it, so maybe."
And we did work on it.
We sent two separate emails to the local chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. (Including to the person listed as the workshop coordinator.) No response to either email. It turned out that the local (Sacramento) chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf was in the process of a complete reorganization during all of the latter half of 2023 (and well into 2024). There were apparently no active board members during the time this webinar was being set up.
In a further attempt to arrange CEUs we submitted paperwork to Sacramento State University's College of Continuing Education which might result in approval for CEU's being offered from Sac State (which is an accredited University). As of the mid-Spring 2024 the paperwork is still "in processing." (The gears of 4-year state universities turn amazingly slowly.) If Sac State does offer the CEU's, we will email the participants who expressed interest (by filling out the end of workshop quiz) to let them know of the Sac State CEU options.
To summarize:
1. There will be no RID CEUs due to the local RID chapter being reorganized prior to and during the set up of this workshop.
2. There may or may not be a tenth of a CEU offered by Sac State but the local college's gears turn very slowly.
Regardless, we hope you enjoyed the workshop.
Warm regards,
+ Bill (and the workshop team)
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William G. Vicars, Ed.D.
ASL University (Lifeprint.com)
BillVicars@aol.com
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7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free:
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Archive:
* Anyone who may have received RID CEU's* for the November 13, 2023 "ASL Idioms, Puns, and Interesting Signs" workshop did so by filling out a PINRA (Participant Initiated Non-RID Activity) before the workshop and submitting it to their local RID chapter. Whether that was an option for any particular individual was between them and their local RID Chapter. It is an approach to keep in mind for future workshops.
* At best an hour-long workshop would qualify for a tenth of a CEU.* CEU's are not the same as college credit even if it is a college that provides the CEUs and are generally not transferrable to a college unless evaluated and accepted by the target college's articulation officer. Sac State traditionally charges around $65 for the processing fee.
* We are working on sending out certificates of completion to those who registered to receive one (at the end of the workshop we showed a form link).
We said we would charge for that but instead will likely send it out for free because we are generous (ha).
* Also we are looking into offering .1 (point one) Continuing Education Unit (CEU) issued by ASL University (ASLU) of Lifeprint.com we will probably be able to send you a pdf file via email for $19.95 after we (Lifeprint people) set it up. It is not set up yet but we are looking into it.
Glossary:
TLDR means "Too long didn't read it." Sometimes now people put TLDR information in a document to summarize the contents for people who don't have the attention span to actually read a document full of informaiton.CEU stands for "continuing education unit"
RID stand for Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
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