South Phoenix Oral History Project

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Once you have your curation plan in place, revisit your materials. Make sure they are all titled (including supplemental things like background research and forms) according...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Create a plan for naming and storage, and then follow it. Resources  File Naming in the Digital Age by Dean Rehberger and Brendan Coates http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/f...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Transcribe, or begin to transcribe your interview. **If you don’t have your own interview to transcribe, you are more than welcome to request a sample interview from me! Ple...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Create a plan for formatting and working through your transcript.    Resources  The Library of Congress, American Folklife Center: “Indexing and Transcribing Your Interviews...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Using the interview you have conducted, draft a biographical story of your narrator including all of these elements: Title, role, 500 words about him/her and his/her context...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Explore our signature collection at Southphoenixoralhistory.com , looking common elements in our biographical profiles. And a special note to our listeners who may not be wr...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Read the article and reflect. As you read this article in preparation of writing your final story for publication, what does it make you think about? Try to explain how your...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: practice indexing an oral history.  Today's Resources:  Indexing as Engaging Oral History Research: Using OHMS to “Compose History” in the Writing Classroom by Douglas...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: brainstorm and define the components of an oral history index.  Today's Resources:  Indexing as Engaging Oral History Research: Using OHMS to “Compose History” in the W...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: write a curation plan, with specific focus on your technology storage needs.  Today's Resources:  Steven Siellaff, “Brave New World: A Guide to Twenty-First Century Tec...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: reflect on those questions, but make a plan going forward. Grab your notebook and a pen, and write your answers to these questions:  What kind of recording (audio or video)...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Write a thank you note to your narrator. Reflect on what they've taught you and how you plan to follow up. Today's Resources:  Nancy McKay, Curating Oral Histories...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Reflect on how you reacted to the interview you just conducted. Throughout the interview and after, how did your eyes feel? Your head? Your back? Were you tired afterward or...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Save and protect your interview recording.  Bonus prompt: The interview is ____________ to an oral history _________________ (example: The interview is the main dish to the...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Go forth and interview! Let us know how it goes.  Today's Resources: Not sure where to get full oral histories? Here are a few places that might have something interest...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Conduct a full mock interview with someone you don't know too well.  Go through the entire process – get consent, test your equipment, record the conversation, and ask...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Listen to an available oral history (about an hour) that relates to your topic. React and respond to what you do or don't want to emulate in your own interview. Today&a...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Find or create an interview checklist  that works perfectly for you and incorporates all the elements you need in your oral history interviews.  Today's Resources: Univ...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Write the script for your initial ask and send it to a potential narrator.  Today's Resources: The University of Southern Mississippi, Center for Oral History & Cul...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Find a gatekeeper and reach out to him/her/them. Write an email or make a phone call, explaining your project or intentions and how he/she/they can help you get in contact w...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Research oral history consent forms. Do an online search, or ask your special collection for an example of their consent forms. Select one or two and review them for ethics,...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Take time today to read about the craft of oral history. And reflect on these questions: Before you started doing these challenges, what did you think oral history entailed?...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Using what you've learned through your pre-interview research, review your interview questions and edit, adjust, reorder, or otherwise improve your questions with your...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Identify which of these strategies you think will work best for you when it comes to pre-interview biographical research:  Email the questions to your narrator; Schedule a p...

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt. Today's prompt: Create a biographical questionnaire. A sort of profile of your narrator that you develop with or about them before the interview. Come up with 7-10 factual details you’d lik...