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How To Use Oral History to Make History More Accessible and Engaging for the Public
Oral history is a powerful tool for democratizing history. It empowers everyone to participate in the recording and sharing of history making it more accessible to all. By giving voice to the experiences of people who have been marginalized or underrepresented in traditional historical narratives, oral history can help us to better understand the past…
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Memory and the Self in Oral History
One of the key challenges and opportunities of oral history is to understand the role of memory in shaping the narratives of the interviewees. However, oral history also poses some challenges and limitations, especially when it comes to the reliability and accuracy of memory. Memory is not a static or objective record of the past,…
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Six Top Tips on How to Organize your Oral History Transcripts While Transcribing.
Transcribing oral history interviews can be a daunting task, but it is also an essential one for making the recordings accessible and searchable. Here are some general tips on how to organize your oral history transcripts: In Summary By following these tips, you can ensure that your oral history transcripts are accurate, well-structured, and reliable.…
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Conducting Oral History in the Digital Age
The digital age has presented both challenges and opportunities for the field of oral history. On the one hand, new technologies have made it easier to record, transcribe, and share oral history interviews. On the other hand, these technologies have also raised new ethical and methodological concerns. In this blog, we’ll take a look at…
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Top Five Tips on How to Organize Your Oral History Transcribed Interviews
You have done a great job of transcribing your oral history interviews, but now you may wonder how to organize them for future use. Here are some tips to help you sort out your transcripts and make them more accessible and meaningful. First, you should create a folder for each interviewee and store their transcript,…
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Best Practices While Conducting Oral History Interviews with Marginalized Communities.
Oral history’s marginalized communities are those whose stories have been historically excluded or silenced. This includes people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people from low-income backgrounds, immigrants, refugees, rural communities, religious and political minorities, and survivors of trauma or violence. Marginalized communities are often underrepresented in oral history collections because they have…
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How to Transfer Audio from Zoom H1n to Computer
In this post, I show you how you can transfer your audio files from the Zoom H1n to your computer. This is the final post in this series on how to your use Zoom H1n to record your oral history interviews. The first post in this series was a how to guide on how to…
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How to set the right microphone sensitivity on the Zoom H1n
In this post, I am going to show you how to set right the microphone sensitivity on the Zoom H1n for your oral history interviews. This is the third post in this tutorial series on how to use your Zoom H1n to record your oral history interviews. The first post in this series was a…
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How to Set Recording Format on the Zoom H1n for Oral History Recordings
In this post, I will guide you on how to set the recording format on the Zoom H1n. This is the second post in this tutorial series on how to use your Zoom H1n to record your oral history interviews. The first post in this series was a how to guide on how to format…
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How to Format microSD card using Zoom H1n
In this blog post I am going to share with you a step by step guide on how to format a microSD card using the Zoom H1n. Why? Well, I recently had a chat with an oral historian that is looking to conduct oral history interviews. They got the Zoom H1n audio recorder a few…
