By Jeffrey S. Solochek, Tampa Bay Times
After seeing the course’s popularity and learning that no other online sign-language high school credit-bearing courses were available in Florida (or really anywhere else), Pasco eSchool principal Joanne Glenn decided to launch virtual American Sign Language herself. She conferred with local ASL teachers and saw that the course used technology such as Skyping and videotaping of lessons, suggesting that creating a full online course would be a logical next step. “The longer we waited for someone else to solve the problem, there were more students who were denied the opportunity to learn this language,” Glenn said. “We had the tools and the technology. The only thing holding us back … was us.”
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