FW: next year's OLAC LSA tutorial

[Heidi Johnson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Austin [mailto:pa2 at soas.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:14 AM
> To: hjohnson at mail.utexas.edu
> Cc: djn at soas.ac.uk; OLAC-OUTREACH at LLOYD.EMICH.EDU; acw at mail.utexas.edu;
> jcgood at buffalo.edu
> Subject: Re: next year's OLAC LSA tutorial
> 
> Heidi,
> 
> I think that the theme area you and Jeff have identified is a nice one but
> can I suggest:
> 
> 1. that the focus be on working WITH communities and speakers to:
> (a) work out what they want from linguists research and how that might be
> provided (eg. genres of output, different types of interfaces to the data
> sets etc)
> (b) work out how these things can be provided by smart use of technology
> (c) identify the limits of what is possible within a given project (so
> that expectations on both sides can be more happily met and
> disappointments minimised)
> 
> I don't like the "giving back" phraseology as it suggests a one-way when
> really what we want is two-way interchange. David Nathan has called this
> "mobilisation" and written some papers on aspects of it, especially the
> issue of interfaces and community collaboration - he could contribute
> further ideas and examples.
> 
> 2. that the focus not be on dissertation research only, for the reasons
> you cited and also to show that even a small project, with a bit of smart
> thinking (eg. some XSLT conversions of well-formed data structures) can
> result in nice outcomes for all parties concerned.
> 
> As you say, some of our students and post-docs have done work on some
> aspects of this, eg. preparing pedagogical materials, making subtitled
> VCDs from ELAN files etc. I can suggest names later if you want me to.
> 
> Best,
> Peter
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Heidi Johnson" <hjohnson at mail.utexas.edu>
> To: <OLAC-OUTREACH at LLOYD.EMICH.EDU>, <pa2 at soas.ac.uk>, "'Tony Woodbury'"
> <acw at mail.utexas.edu>
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:41:18 -0600
> Subject: next year's OLAC LSA tutorial
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> Prof Peter K. Austin
> Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
> Director, Endangered Languages Academic Program
> Department of Linguistics, SOAS
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> London WC1H 0XG
> United Kingdom
> 
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