next year's OLAC LSA tutorial

[Laura Buszard-Welcher]

Hi Heidi,

I think this is a great idea.  I think we could also add a slot to
talk about how these are archive-worthy resources (to keep with the
archives community theme), and how they might be repurposed and
expanded on by others in the speech community...or perhaps how
educators take linguistic resources and modify them for their own
language teaching purposes.

Laura

On 2/12/07, Heidi Johnson <hjohnson at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------------------------------------
> 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
>


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