FW: OLAC tutorial at LSA '08

[Heidi Johnson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Berez [mailto:andrea.berez at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 12:31 PM
> To: hjohnson at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
> Cc: good at eva.mpg.de
> Subject: OLAC tutorial at LSA '08
> 
> Hi Heidi, and Jeff,
> I think this is a great idea! And I'd like to throw my hat into the
> ring with the following idea...
> 
> My own form of giving back to the Dena'ina community has been as
> technology training, everything from making good recordings to web
> technology for presentation and learning. It's this latter one that
> has been most interesting: I've been working with language teachers
> interested language learners to teach them how to use HTML, Flash,
> Quicktime, etc, to make whatever pedagogical or presentation products
> they can think of. I've discovered that it's especially important to
> this group of people that they can make attractive, fun tools they can
> be proud of. So I've been helping them turn archival language
> materials (from the ANLC, from my own fieldwork, etc.) into
> interactive CD ROMs and webpages that are interesting to young people.
> My "trainees" get a lot of joy out of the process of making these
> products themselves (as opposed to me making them and handing them
> over).
> 
> I know you heard me talk about past work at emeld 06; I'm also going
> back up to Alaska this summer and plan to take some time out of my
> fieldwork schedule to offer a technology brush-up workshop to the
> Tribe.
> 
> I could go on, but I'll wait to hear if you'd like to know more :)
> 
> Best wishes,
> Andrea Berez
>