new methods of media are quickly changing the techniques that we rely on and
do oral and public history ; historians are now employing a form of digital
technologies to record, organize, catalogue, interpret, share, and exhibit the stories that we both collect. in oral history, we are utilizing a transformative moment, particularly in relation to thinking exactly what happens after the interview. this is often a vital purpose :
oral historians are therefore targeted upon the creating on your interview we have spent
remarkably very little time
thinking exactly what there is out to do when using the audio or video recordings. as michael frisch has
noted, “the deep dark secret of oral history is the idea that nobody
spends the right amount of time taking note of or watching recorded and picked up interviews. ” new digital technologies have made the
intangible rather more tangible
in recent years. the result, in step with université
laval folklorist laurier turgeon, could be a “new
era of heritage. ” a person seeking
a heritage that will be interactive,
participatory, and living. these trends have vital ramifications for our history
classroom.
concordia
university’s centre for oral history and digital storytelling is home to over
200 faculty, students, educators, new media practitioners, activists, heritage
and history organizations, and alternative community teams. this diverse community of follow is
exploring the intersections between oral history, new media and of course the arts. the results are typically inspiring.
the montreal life stories project, a large-scale community-university analysis alliance ( cura ) project, now coming into its final year, is recording the life stories of montrealers displaced by war, genocide and alternative human rights violations. these interviews are then integrated into on-line digital stories, audio tours, performances, art installations, exhibitions, radio programming and pedagogical resources. we've worked with 2 grade 11 categories where students developed a year-long oral history project around this theme, manufacturing a documentary film and exhibition. these comes won an award coming from the oral history association ( usa ) for our best example of oral history teaching in north america and quebec’s force avenir award for student engagement. you'll view the life within the whole open prison documentary upon the citizen shift website. another student, paul tom, won the animation prize coming from the montreal world film festival in 2010. the citizen shift and parole citoyenne sites conjointly host our digital stories, co-produced with survivors themselves, and of course the podcasts of over 26 radio documentaries made by our radio production team.
this past year having been invited to co-author a report and web portal on oral history and new media for sshrc ( accessible for download on our oral historian’s digital toolbox web site ) that examines how digital tools are letting us access, share, locate, and archive stories like never before. this is often a useful resource for teachers ( as is our tips page ). meanwhile, our cohds software development team recently released a brand new version of stories matter, a free open supply oral history software developed in-house as an various to transcription. we've applied for funding to develop a brand new mapping memories tool which can enable us to geo-locate interview clips, thereby manufacturing life memory mappings.
there will be dozens of alternative comes, massive and little, underway with the centre for oral history and digital storytelling. allow me to actually share 5 inspiring examples from yesteryear year :
• affiliated film-maker liz miller and of course the ywca worked with the use of a group of 8 refugee youth throughout the “memoryscape” bus tour of montreal. they will used the bus itself as an immersive storytelling area where these young folks explored their stories of migration and displacement. watch the video life stories/going places bus tour.
• a group of james lyng your childhood students, operating with say it loud, say it proud !, made a black history hip-hop song about their neighbourhood. burgundy dreams was the result.
• i worked when using the centre d’histoire de montreal to develop the quartiers disparus ( lost neighbourhoods ) oral history exhibition that explores the politics and memory on your demolition of 3 working-class neighbourhoods within the whole fifties and 1960s. the exhibition continues till march 2012.
• an exhibition on oral history and fine art, entitled in-tur-pri-tey-shunz, was curated by pohanna pyne feinberg with the fofagallery. hear our podcasted radio interview my very little voice can’t lie with artist khadija baker.
• cohds and of course the quebec anglophone heritage network undertook the spoken heritage on-line multimedia initiative database. we digitized four hundred hours of existing audio-taped interviews ( conducted since the 1960s ) and transformed them into your searchable database.
the student-based work on our memoryscapes website is simply as exciting. my oral history syllabi are conjointly accessible on our website.
the montreal life stories project, a large-scale community-university analysis alliance ( cura ) project, now coming into its final year, is recording the life stories of montrealers displaced by war, genocide and alternative human rights violations. these interviews are then integrated into on-line digital stories, audio tours, performances, art installations, exhibitions, radio programming and pedagogical resources. we've worked with 2 grade 11 categories where students developed a year-long oral history project around this theme, manufacturing a documentary film and exhibition. these comes won an award coming from the oral history association ( usa ) for our best example of oral history teaching in north america and quebec’s force avenir award for student engagement. you'll view the life within the whole open prison documentary upon the citizen shift website. another student, paul tom, won the animation prize coming from the montreal world film festival in 2010. the citizen shift and parole citoyenne sites conjointly host our digital stories, co-produced with survivors themselves, and of course the podcasts of over 26 radio documentaries made by our radio production team.
this past year having been invited to co-author a report and web portal on oral history and new media for sshrc ( accessible for download on our oral historian’s digital toolbox web site ) that examines how digital tools are letting us access, share, locate, and archive stories like never before. this is often a useful resource for teachers ( as is our tips page ). meanwhile, our cohds software development team recently released a brand new version of stories matter, a free open supply oral history software developed in-house as an various to transcription. we've applied for funding to develop a brand new mapping memories tool which can enable us to geo-locate interview clips, thereby manufacturing life memory mappings.
there will be dozens of alternative comes, massive and little, underway with the centre for oral history and digital storytelling. allow me to actually share 5 inspiring examples from yesteryear year :
• affiliated film-maker liz miller and of course the ywca worked with the use of a group of 8 refugee youth throughout the “memoryscape” bus tour of montreal. they will used the bus itself as an immersive storytelling area where these young folks explored their stories of migration and displacement. watch the video life stories/going places bus tour.
• a group of james lyng your childhood students, operating with say it loud, say it proud !, made a black history hip-hop song about their neighbourhood. burgundy dreams was the result.
• i worked when using the centre d’histoire de montreal to develop the quartiers disparus ( lost neighbourhoods ) oral history exhibition that explores the politics and memory on your demolition of 3 working-class neighbourhoods within the whole fifties and 1960s. the exhibition continues till march 2012.
• an exhibition on oral history and fine art, entitled in-tur-pri-tey-shunz, was curated by pohanna pyne feinberg with the fofagallery. hear our podcasted radio interview my very little voice can’t lie with artist khadija baker.
• cohds and of course the quebec anglophone heritage network undertook the spoken heritage on-line multimedia initiative database. we digitized four hundred hours of existing audio-taped interviews ( conducted since the 1960s ) and transformed them into your searchable database.
the student-based work on our memoryscapes website is simply as exciting. my oral history syllabi are conjointly accessible on our website.
