The overal aim of this workshop is to understand the value of oral history to heritage sites and understand the resources needed to safely store and exhibit these oral histories
Activity One: Oral History Braindump
Aim: To understand the value of oral history to heritage sites.
Task: To start with the participants will be asked to “dump” all the times they have listen to an oral history good or bad. They will then pick out the positive or negative feelings they had while experiencing these oral histories in an effort to understand the value of listening to oral history.
Activity Two: Breaking down an oral history recording
Aim: To understand what we need to do to make and keep an oral history recordin
Task: First, the participants will be asked to think about is needed to make an oral history recording. Then they will be asked what is necessary to keep an oral history recording.
Activity Three: What are we going to make?
Aim: To come up with ideas for the use of oral history by drawing on the two previous activities
Task: The participants are asked to come up with ideas that best display the value of oral history but also consider the resources, labour and ethics that are involved with handling an oral history.
Activity three was never completed