Over the past two weeks we have recorded 12 oral history interviews. The students have been amazing. They have shown themselves to be a fantastic group of historians.
Each group has embraced the challenges set for them over this short period and produced some informative and entertaining results. They start each interview with a quick tour of the school and this has enabled them build a rapport with their interviewee before getting down to the business of recording their memories of CQS. At the beginning of this term we heard a lot about the importance of listening and then building on the conversation by asking further questions. Each group has come through this with flying colours.
We have faced a couple of technical challenges with the wonders of Skype. The group interviewing at the time had a couple of connection issues but managed to work around this on their own and get the interview back on track. Nice work guys!
It is always great having the debrief after the interview, as each group discusses some of the interesting points raised by the interviewee and we get to listen to a snippet of it. We also get to talk about some of the tricky situations they found and brainstorm as a class how to work around this if another group faces a similar issue.
The next step for each group will be to pull all the relevant information out of their interview and find a way to group this in a meaningful way. This will not be an easy task as many of the interviews reach an hour in length - lots of information to record and process.
Of course there is no rest yet as we still have 4 more interviews to go over the next couple of weeks.
A BIG thank you again to all the ex pupils and teachers of Clyde Quay who have made this process possible. They have been incredible by giving their time to us and sharing so many amazing stories.
Each group has embraced the challenges set for them over this short period and produced some informative and entertaining results. They start each interview with a quick tour of the school and this has enabled them build a rapport with their interviewee before getting down to the business of recording their memories of CQS. At the beginning of this term we heard a lot about the importance of listening and then building on the conversation by asking further questions. Each group has come through this with flying colours.
We have faced a couple of technical challenges with the wonders of Skype. The group interviewing at the time had a couple of connection issues but managed to work around this on their own and get the interview back on track. Nice work guys!
The next step for each group will be to pull all the relevant information out of their interview and find a way to group this in a meaningful way. This will not be an easy task as many of the interviews reach an hour in length - lots of information to record and process.
Of course there is no rest yet as we still have 4 more interviews to go over the next couple of weeks.
A BIG thank you again to all the ex pupils and teachers of Clyde Quay who have made this process possible. They have been incredible by giving their time to us and sharing so many amazing stories.
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