CUIN 6397 - Practicum in IT, Summer 2006
Oral History and Blog Assignment
In Class 4 (on June 20th), we will be participating in an oral history workshop. We would like you to be familiar with the concept of oral history before you come to class on the 20th. Please research the term "oral history" however you would like and post a comment that includes:
1. A definition of oral history
2. Answer the question: Who is the oral historian in your family or what personal experience you have with oral history? For example, Brian's personal experience with oral history was his grandma, who was a first generation immigrant from Lithuania who could not read or write english. Her contribution to the family's legacy was many stories of the struggles she went through and how there was once a town in Lithuania that was the origin of the Plankis family name and it was a thriving town until Germany invaded in 1915 in WWI and razed it to the ground.
3. One or more of the following:
Links to additional resources (such as websites, titles of books, movies, journal articles, etc.) that you found describing oral history that other people can examine.
Before you post your comment on the blog, be sure to read other people's comments to make sure you are not posting a duplicate resource.
Oral History and Blog Assignment
In Class 4 (on June 20th), we will be participating in an oral history workshop. We would like you to be familiar with the concept of oral history before you come to class on the 20th. Please research the term "oral history" however you would like and post a comment that includes:
1. A definition of oral history
2. Answer the question: Who is the oral historian in your family or what personal experience you have with oral history? For example, Brian's personal experience with oral history was his grandma, who was a first generation immigrant from Lithuania who could not read or write english. Her contribution to the family's legacy was many stories of the struggles she went through and how there was once a town in Lithuania that was the origin of the Plankis family name and it was a thriving town until Germany invaded in 1915 in WWI and razed it to the ground.
3. One or more of the following:
Links to additional resources (such as websites, titles of books, movies, journal articles, etc.) that you found describing oral history that other people can examine.
Before you post your comment on the blog, be sure to read other people's comments to make sure you are not posting a duplicate resource.
posted by Bernard Robin @ 7:14 AM
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1) Oral history documents forms of discourse normally not documented and it emphasizes the significance of human experience (Retrieved from http://www.thc.state.tx.us/publications/guidelines/OralHistory.pdf)
2)The oral historian in my family was my grandma. She was a great storyteller not only of family life but of life in general. Since she passed away, my aunt Jan has become our family oral historian. In the future, I think I will become the family oral historian because I also like to tell family stories so that they may be kept alive.
)Some reference links:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/oral.htm
--This links to the U.S. army's Center of Military History. The section on oral histories of soldiers is especially interesting.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html
--This links to a lesson plan from the Library of Congress American Memory site which might be helpful to the teacher's guide group in developing lesson plans.
Judi,
Thanks for the tip. Good idea about tape recording.
I love the comment about your uncles, hilarious!
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