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Telling Their Stories: Producing Web-Based Digital Video Interviews
5-Day Intensive Educator Workshop
Sunday â€" Thursday, July 27 â€" July 31, 2008
8:30 a.m. â€" 3:30 p.m.
The Center for Innovative Teaching
The Urban School of San Francisco
1563 Page Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Who: This workshop is designed for middle school through college teachers who want to implement a student oral history/interviewing internet-based project.
Note: this workshop has filled the past 2 years.
Instructor: Howard Levin, Director of Technology, The Urban School of San Francisco
Cost: $650 (see [ https://www.urbanschool.org/page.cfm?p=176 ]registration page for early discounts)
This hands-on workshop explores the production and web publishing of digital video interviews. The publishing of student-conducted interviews has efficacy far beyond oral history. Consider the benefits of interviews with local authors, scientists, mathematicians, community leaders, artists and musicians.
Using The Urban School's award-winning project, [ http://www.tellingstories.org/ ]Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project, as an example, participants will learn and practice production techniques, including interview preparation, creating and using a mobile studio, and post-production leading to a public website, complete with digital video and full transcription. See [ http://www.tellingstories.org/ ]www.tellingstories.org for examples.
Production will be completed on Apple Macintosh computers, but skills are transferable to other platforms. Participants with Apple laptops are encouraged to bring them to the workshop. The Center for Innovative Teaching also will provide Apple laptop computers for the duration of the workshop.
New This Year: Participants in small groups will conduct interviews at the homes of a local elders drawn from the current topics of Holocaust survivors, camp liberators, and Japanese American relocation camp internees. Participants will complete all stages of production, from preparation to interview to publication. In true “Authentic Doing†style, this interview will be added to the Telling Their Stories website ([ http://www.tellingstories.org/ ]www.tellingstories.org), providing a lasting
contribution to oral history scholarship.
**Note** Some prior reading in preparation for the interview will be provided. Participants will also be expected to complete some proofing tasks from their homes on a flexible schedule during the weeks following the workshop.
Collaborate and Join Telling Their Stories: Educators attending this workshop will be invited to join the existing [ http://www.tellingstories.org/ ]Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project. Telling Their Stories will offer ongoing technical support and curriculum advice, as well as host new interviews conducted by schools from around the country. Interested participants/schools can therefore focus attention on the curricular needs and basic interview techniques and leave the more
technical aspects of web publishing to Telling Their Stories.
Topics Include:
Interview techniques and materials
Scaling and adapting to local and grade-level needs
Topic development and research
Developing a mobile studio, (lighting, sound and recording)
Transcription procedures
Simple movie editing using QuickTime Pro
Processing systems: moving from tape to the web
Classroom/project management practices
Register:
Please visit the [ https://www.urbanschool.org/page.cfm?p=176 ]registration page.
More information and Registration:
[ https://www.urbanschool.org/page.cfm?p=97 ]https://www.urbanschool.org/page.cfm?p=97
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Howard Levin hlevin@urbanschool.org
Director of Technology
www.howardlevin.com
The Urban School of San Francisco 415-593-9525
Board of Directors â€" K12 Representative
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project
www.tellingstories.org
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Upcoming Presentations:
http://www.howardlevin.com/speaking.html
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