LSCI 110: DIGITAL
ORAL RESEARCH PROJECT
Spring 2012 Course Schedule
Introduction
to Oral Research
Interviewing
Tips and Practice
Editing
Your Interview
Creating
Your Webpage
Class meeting: Monday, March 5, 10:10
– 11:00am or Tuesday, March 6, 11:10am – 12:25pm:
Introduction to Oral Research
Video: A Game of Solitaire
Reading:
- Required: Hoopes, Oral History: An Introduction for Students :
Part 1
- Optional:
An
Oral History Primer (Sherna Berger Gluck, CSU,
Long Beach)
Introduction to
Oral History (Baylor University Institute for Oral History)
Contact narrator/interviewee and set
up interview date as soon as possible, but no later than: March 21
Class meeting: Monday, March 19, 10:10 – 11:00am or
Tuesday, March 20, 11:10am – 12:25pm:
Interviewing Tips & Practice
Reading:
- Required:
Hoopes, Oral History: An Introduction for Students :
Part 3
Interviewing
tips
PEP
Filipino-American Oral History Project Sample Events and Questions
Complete interview preparation
by: March 23
---> Topic
Outline (Click here to see an
example of a topic outline) Also include the
name and brief description of interviewee and scheduled date of interview - Due:
March 23 (email to brenner@smccd.edu)
Complete interview no later than April 13
* have narrator sign release
form before the interview
* take digital photos of narrator after the interview
* ask narrator if they have any old photos from the times
and/or topics they talked about that you can borrow to scan/copy for your
webpage
---> If interview is recorded in digital audio format, export
the audio as an MP3 file and submit file by April 13.
---> If interview is recorded in digital video format, upload
at least 5 minutes of the interview to YouTube and submit the YouTube URL by
April 13.
Class meeting: Monday, April
16, 10:10 – 11:00am or Tuesday April 17, 11:10am – 12:25pm:
Digital audio editing
Reading/software:
Convert audio files to MP3 (if necessary): Switch Audio File Converter
Audio Editing Software: Audacity
LAME (required to export MP3 files with Audacity):
·
Instructions
for installing LAME for Windows
·
Instructions
for installing LAME for Mac
Instructions
for how to use Audacity to create audio files for the segments you select
---> Audio
log (general topic outline of
audio with rough times, see Audio Log
Example): - Due: April 20
Editing - April 18 - April 30
Video editing help:
·
Windows Movie Maker video
tutorial
Edited files
- Due: April 30
Class meeting: Monday, April
30, 10:10 – 11:00am or Tuesday, May 1, 11:10am – 12:25pm:
Putting Your Web Page Together
Reading:
Directions
for developing your webpage
Webpage template
---> Web
page - Due: Monday, May 14
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