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: Create your own Historical Questionnaire of topics about the world around your narrator you need to research before your interview. On your own, brainstorm an action plan fo...

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: Come up with a list of things you need to know or research in order to draft meaningful interview questions.  Share your progress with us: @SMCChistory ( Twitter and Insta )...

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 how you plan to work forward in these challenges, and with what lens. Are you looking at oral history as a set of interviews? Or a larger project/collection? Today&...

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 five potential interview questions for your pie in the sky narrators. One for each sense.  Sight Smell Touch Hear Taste  Select your favorite of the five and call up 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: Follow along with our story, looking for biographical details and examples of historical context. Then, write your own story! This is a real-time challenge, so feel free to...

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: Follow along and complete the diagram to visualize yourself and your historical context!  This is a real-time challenge, so feel free to slow down the speed or pause the epi...

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: I’m going to give you a few options. Do one, do them all, it’s up to you.  Take a look at Monika Vrzgulova’s article. What does it make you think of? Write down some ways yo...

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: Wait. Two. Seconds. Today's Resources: https://www.gq.com/story/be-a-better-listener   Share your progress with us: @SMCChistory ( Twitter and Insta ) historysouthmount...

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: Look them in the mouth! Try interviewing a friend or family member, and shift your focus - look at their eyes, then their mouth, then back. Today's Resources: https://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: Let’s work on our nonverbal active listening cues together. Select one nonverbal active listening cue and try it out! Interview a friend or family member with the intent to...

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 10 sample questions. Today's Resources: https://djhs.org/videooral-histories/50-questions-for-an-oral-history-interview/   http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolki...

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: Today, I ask you a series of questions, and as I do, I want you to answer on your own. Feel free to pause the recording as needed. It’s okay if you don’t know the “right” an...

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: I’m asking you: “What do you want out of this?” Write down your hopes for this season of More and More Every Day. Share your progress with us: @SMCChistory ( Twitter and Ins...

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 your elevator speech. Sit down with your journal or laptop and write up what you would say to someone if they asked you “what is oral history?” Try to avoid answering...

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: What were your first interviews? Did you ever try to transcribe a movie, or song, just because you wanted to? For today’s challenge, write down any memories you have of doin...

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: What makes (or would make) you suited for oral history? There are no wrong answers. Share your progress with us: @SMCChistory ( Twitter and Insta ) historysouthmountain@gmai...

Here we go! 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: What is oral history, and why are so many non-historians attracted to it? Today's resources:  https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/oral-histories-...

Hi Everyone! We're so excited to announce the second season of More and More Every Day. Season 2 will be very different from Season 1! Instead of full-length interviewers, this season will feature advice and resources for oral historians at any level. Special guests will join us to share their wisdom, and we'll share books, articles, and other materials for students and practitioners of...

For our last episode of 2020, Summer and Andrea reflect on all that we've learned. We've grown as teachers, as colleagues, and as first-time podcasters. Join us as we look back and look ahead. Shout outs to some of our earliest narrators, and to those of you who took a chance on us when we were first learning how to do this! In 2020, we conducted 74 interviews, published 50 episodes, and...

Look back with us on one of the first interviews we conducted in the spring of 2020. Patricia Herrera is a Training and Development Consultant at South Mountain Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning . In late March when many of us were feeling overwhelmed and unprepared, Patricia was energized by the challenge. Her only low was not having enough time to help everyone. Like so m...

In the spring of 2020, a team of educators at Saint Mary’s College of California in the Teacher Educator Program got together to meet the challenge of transitioning to online teaching head on. Together, Drs. Mary Raygoza,  Raina León, and Aaminah Norris collaborated on an open document, titled "Humanizing Online Teaching," inspired by one of the classes in their program. They shared it w...

Dr. Stevie Stanford is a nationally sought-after psychologist and expert on trauma and addiction. Whether you're a teacher or a student, Dr. Stanford knows this period of social isolation is going to be difficult. She doesn't want you to feel guilt or shame as you're working through the COVID-19 era. "Pain is pain. We all have feelings." For some of us, school is a place o...

Dennis Kibbe teaches Computer Information Systems at Mesa Community College in Arizona. In the spring of 2020, Dennis and Summer touched base about the rapid switch to online teaching and learning during the outbreak of COVID19. An expert in teaching using technology, Dennis had a lot of excellent advice for his fellow teachers about teaching online, and doing it well. Dennis suggests his students...

Today's interview is with two experts from EAB: Education Technology, Services, and Research in Washington, D.C. Melanie Ho is Senior Vice President of Research and David Attis is a managing director. They've known each other for several years, this is their first time being interviewed together! Lately, Melanie has been thinking a lot about the impact of COVID19, grief, and isolation. A...

Gabriela Torres is a Professor of Anthropology at Wheaton College. She is also a co-director for her college's Center for Teaching and Learning. Gabriela's watershed moment was at the end of Spring Break when her college decided to keep the campus closed. She found that she didn't have many answers to questions students were asking. "I saw my students really processing somethin...