The purpose of this document is to provide the user with the basic vocabulary needed to develop design projects as well as a checklist of the key elements necessary to complete a project. It will also provide a guide to the ethics and protocol of design and content sourcing which will include the issues of copyright restrictions and giving due credit.
Sometimes an interest in oral history is sparked through meeting or hearing about a remarkable person in our community. Other times it grows out of a curiosity about some aspect of local culture or history.
Having arrived at this page, you have probably already decided that the story you want to record has significance for a larger audience and/or is likely to shed light on an event that would be of interest to future historians.
Depending on your skill and resources, there are many choices of equipment. Among others, there are laptop computers with built in microphones, video camcorders, digital cameras with video functions, small tabletop cameras that can record up to two hours of audiovisual material, and digital audio recorders of varying sound quality. Recordings made with all of these can be edited on the average home computer using free sound-editing software. The following questions may help you to decide which equipment to use.
There was little time for educating their families when the first settlers arrived in Eaton in the early 1800s. Clearing the land, growing food, building log homes, and preparing for the long cold winters, kept them far too busy to leave much time for teaching literacy and academic subjects to their children.
The Design Guide and the Oral History Guide may be viewed in HTML or downloaded as a PDF.
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La base de données SHOMI regroupe des collections d'histoire orale en provenance de musées, de sociétés historiques, d'organisations communautaires et d'instituts de recherche des différentes régions du Québec. Les fichiers audio contenus dans la base de données sont annotés et des outils de recherche permettent aux utilisateurs de récupérer facilement des enregistrements selon leurs intérêts particuliers.
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Each template is available in three sizes to support a variety of uses from exhibit development to promotions. The templates are available in Adobe Illustrator and .jpg format. Adobe Illustrator users are able to edit the design.
Museums, historical societies, community organizations and educational institutions developed heritage exhibits using archival materials and oral histories to support their exhibit presentation.
All exhibits were collaborative efforts between the organizations and the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network.