Developing Educational Videos for Deaf Students in Sign Language

Bruno Jose Betti Galasso, Dirceu Esdras Teixeira

(Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos, Núcleo de Educação Online, Brazil)

Abstract: This paper introduces the production stages of the bilingual courseware designed by the Online Education Center (NEO) of the National Institute of Education for the Deaf (INES). The production of the digital learning objects is analyzed in its technical aspects (pre-production, translation and post-production) and in light of the principles of multimedia learning. Given the current gap in what concerns bilingual courseware for deaf education, our contribution to the discipline is setting essential parameters for this kind of production. Throughout the paper, the workflow for the bilingual courseware production is organized in 15 stages, giving special attention to the roles of the translator-interpreters, who take turns as translator-presenter, translator-supervisor, and translator-proofreader. The findings in this paper suggest that references of multimedia learning when combined with the guiding principles of deaf education can engender a new methodology for courseware design. These innovative and interdisciplinary methods can contribute to advance our knowledge and production of bilingual courseware in Libras/Portuguese.

Key words: bilingualism, deafness, translation, courseware, special education