next year's OLAC LSA tutorial

[Heidi Johnson]

It is time to start dreaming up a program for the 2008 OLAC @ LSA tutorial.
That will be in Chicago, Jan. 3-6. We have had great success with our past
three LSA tutorials. There are links to those pages here, I hope:
http://www.language-archives.org/news.html#olac05.  We've done tutorials on 
archiving (2005), audio-video technologies for language documentation (2006)
and 
text technologies for ditto (2007). 

Jeff had the seed of a great idea for 2008, imho. He suggested that we do
something
like "How to Give Back: Ten Things You Can Do for your Consultants without
Derailing Your Dissertation." That may be a crass and/or misguided title -
heaven
knows it's a clumsy one - but y'all get the general idea. There are lots of
people
doing fun/interesting/useful things for speaker communities, alongside or
combined
with or somehow added on to their linguistic research. Could we collect 5-7
great
ideas to disseminate to the LSA/SSILA audience?

It could be anything from making primers that are easy to copy & bind at the
local
papeleria to setting up Toolbox to produce pedagogical dictionaries as well
as
technical ones (zap those vile archiphonemes!). Ideally we could showcase
ideas
that range from pre-dissertation to post-tenure levels of ability to commit
time to
pedagogy :-). We totally can't send the message that graduate students are
now
going to be required to add designing an educational program to their task
list!!
(Would that be before or after they transcribe & time-align their whole
recorded corpus?)

We have to get our proposal in by April 15. It's best if we can get 1-para
abstracts
from all the proposed presenters at that time so we don't have to come after
you
in the middle of the summer. I'm copying Peter Austin & Tony Woodbury
because
I strongly suspect that they have some students who could hop right up and
do
great presentations on this subject tomorrow!

Send your ideas to the list or to me & Jeff, either way. Let's keep the
momentum of
great OLAC tutorials going!!

Heidi

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Heidi Johnson, Ph.D.
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
1 University Station C3200
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
www.ailla.utexas.org