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| Katie Thomas, Mary Dickerson, Alice Slusher, Melinda Wagner, and Jason Burgard discuss saving photos and artifacts. (Bijou Williams is our photographer.) |
Our
co-coordinator, Alice Slusher, showed our group
how to properly use a scanning machine last
Thursday and it was very helpful!
The scanner will scan any photo with the click of a button. It's also adjustable so it gives us the
ability to scan books, scrapbooks, or any type of item with a spine. Sometimes details in pictures come to light
once the photos from the scanner are uploaded on the computer and enlarged on
the screen. You don't know what will
show up on an old photo until it's converted to a picture with high resolution.
I love this about the scanner; interviewees
sometimes notice interesting things in the photos that they did not realize
were there beforehand!
how to properly use a scanning machine last
We
talked about linguistic dialects, since we will hear different styles of talk
in the recorded interviews. Our
group took a dialect quiz from the New York Times. It asked us a series of questions on how we
pronounce certain words and it ended up teaching each of us something new.
At the end of the quiz, it shows a map of the patterns of your dialect
which I found fascinating.
Here's
the link to the quiz, definitely check it out if you have some downtime!
When
you see the results, you might want to – take them with a grain of salt – which
is one of many sayings (or “colloquialisms”)
from Melinda Wagner’s mother’s dialect. By
the way, if you have difficulty seeing the quiz, from our experience, a Google
account will open the quiz, (and of course a New York Times account will
open it). See you all next week.
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