Roots with Wings, a Floyd County Place-Based Education Project:: Intergenerational Connections

Floyd Story Center

Since 1998, a community oral history collection partnership of the Old Church Gallery, Ltd., Radford University’s Center for Social and Cultural Research, Honors Program, Scholar-Citizen Initiative, Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, and Floyd County High School. Our archives now hold over 100 interviews.

In our Roots with Wings project, college mentors, high school staff, and community volunteers meet weekly during the school year to teach the discipline of oral history collection.


Students learn ethical, methodologically sound interview techniques, practice and complete several interviews, transcribe the audiotapes, create searchable content logs, archive interviewee resources and period photographs, learn the technology of audio and video recording, research historical backgrounds, acquire proficiency in iMovie and storytelling, and finally extract a theme from an hour long interview to create a seven minute movie production.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Final Editing of 2015 Output

Will Gipe, VA Tech Intern

 

If the tip of the iceberg represents our final output from the oral history program, the massive bulk of ice underwater pretty much captures the amount of refining that happens to all of our oral history records.  
We were lucky this past summer to have Will GIpe, a Virginia Tech student from Wise County, ably and conscientiously assist us in a final review of the 2015 high school oral history output.  We miss him!

  

 

 


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