2007 institute course

[Heidi Johnson]

Emily! You genius! This is an extremely important website
for us to know about, and it didn't even occur to me to
look for such a thing.

The deadline is March 15th. I wonder if we could dream 
up a 3-week course that had only 2 instructors for the
whole 3 weeks, to be our fallback bottom-line course plan.
Then we could submit a proposal with say 4 instructors (?),
justifying the extras as best we can. If we only get two,
perhaps we could persuade some of the conference attendees
to come early and/or stay late to do some special topics.
(Unicode and exotic language character sets springs to mind...)

Maybe the first question is, who among our circle of experts
would be willing to spend 3 weeks in Stanford? Because pretty
much anybody can harangue people about labelling :-). We'd
want the course to focus on audio/video recording - tips and 
techniques for making really recordings - and then using software 
to produce spiffy texts: transcribing, annotation using something 
like Elan, etc etc. Probably a week on recording (including
digital formats, conversions, digitizing, etc.) and 2 weeks
on texts, because those are really the hardest. Too many choices!

Heidi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: OLAC Outreach Working Group [mailto:OLAC-
> OUTREACH at listserv.linguistlist.org] On Behalf Of Emily M. Bender
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 7:11 PM
> To: OLAC-OUTREACH at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: Re: 2007 institute course
> 
> Hi Heidi,
> 
> The 2007 institute will be somewhat different in format
> from previous years, and as another innovation, they have
> issued an open call for course proposals:
> 
> http://linginst07.stanford.edu/cfp.html
> 
> That page states:
> 
>  Faculty who teach at the 2007 institute will each receive a living
>  stipend, and reasonable travel costs. To supplement these, we are
>  seeking additional funds to provide a modest honorarium, per course.
> 
> and also: "An explicit rationale should be provided if more than 2
> instructors are proposed."
> 
> Emily
>