Cedar Mill Oral History Project

Oral History Projecthttp://bit.ly/oralhistory2009

Mark Richardson

Cedar Mill Community Library

Focus on immigration

How families adapt and integrate in Oregon

Storytelling

Podcasting & Building

Community

Recording

Logistics

at Sunset High

Interview Questions

Where did you come from & when did you come?

Why Oregon? What do you like about it?

Biggest Challenges

Differences – particularly in education?

Prejudice

What do you miss? Do you ever go back?

The Technology

that worked

• Snowball

Microphone

with USB plug

• Apple

computers

with Garage

Band

Technology that didn’t2 mics with a switch

Editing – the Good

The Bad

•Photo by mr p via flickr

The Ugly

Photo by chris.corwin via flickr

Posting to the web

Posting to Ourmedia is complicated

and time consuming

Free is a good price, ability to post

under a Creative Commons license

appealing too.

Ourmedia is not pretty but allows

HTML to be captured and

reformatted.

Format change last year has pushed

us to use Internet Archive links more.

Other hosting options

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Alice Kern

Jim Tsugawa

Gloria Rivera

Lasting impressions

Powerful narratives

A chance to teach & witness

Community connections

Collaboration with schools

Shows how the NW was and

is a destination for many

people who were looking for

better lives.