American Sign Language and Deaf Culture

• ASL THAT!-- Videos for learning about specific ASL vocabulary and grammar topics, as well as comparing ASL with more English-y signing styles. Here is a lesson on basic vocabulary.
• Rob Nielson -- Lessons and stories focused on teaching ASL to students. Videos may contain closed captions. Here's a lesson. Here's a classic ASL joke that explains some signs as it goes along.
• CODA Brothers-- These videos are produced by two brothers who are Children of Deaf Adults. Their videos contain sign and speech (both produced by them, not interpreted), but often no text or captions. They give a glimpse into stradleing the hearing and Deaf world. Most videos are hilarious. Here's a satire about different deaf education philosophies. Here's a video showing some "deaf views on hearing culture". Here's another video that beginning students might find funny.
• ASLized! -- This channel contains several children's stories too, without voiceovers and without as much text support. This resource is still accessible to beginners. For example, can you tell when the storyteller is taking on the character role of one of the Pigs vs the Wolf in this familiar story? This channel also contains many other interesting videos on ASL linguistics, such as this video about ASL aquisition in children. This video, and many others, contains English closed captions that can be enabled in the video player. If you love watching kids sign, there are many cute videos.

This video shows viewers how to sign each letter of the alphabet, then demonstrates the signs for introductions and greetings, family members, rooms in the house, animals, and question forms. Segments of the video are displayed first without and then with text so that viewers can test their understanding, and a story section allows for assessment of comprehension of longer conversations.