Yay! Week 6 of the capstone!
Last week, I taught an instruction class on how to use Glifos and the transcription standards the Stark Center wants the interns to adhere to. It went well; the interns really picked it up.
We have had some problems with some of the software Glifos uses and Quinn and I just can't figure out what the deal is. But we now have it working on at least one browser for each Stark Center computer that transcription is being done on. I suspect that certain computers are missing some plug-ins but the Stark Center is ok with how it is.
My file system with using Google Docs to let the interns know what they will be working on has been a success!
My field supervisor decided that we would start using a piece of actual transcription software for the transcription part instead of doing everything in Glifos. Yesterday I worked on getting the piece of software on everyone's computers, making sure the files are where interns can find them, and creating a short text based tutorial for the interns to refer back to after I teach them the software tomorrow morning.
I am really enjoying everything that I'm doing at the Stark Center and I can see how what I'm doing is actually helping them out!
I found out this past week that the Stark Center does not have a best practices guide for their audio files. Not that big of a deal but I investigated it anyway. As it is, the metadata for the audio files is a little wonky and the librarians do not understand the difference between .MP3 and .WAV files. This past weekend I researched the best practices for audio files and on Wednesday I'll meet with them to make some recommendations.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Week 3-4
Today starts week 4 of the Capstone. Last week was spent working on the general Glifos tutorial. I learned how to use Camtasia and the tutorial is done! It covers logging in to Glifos, editing content, syncing the transcript, and creating a table of contents. It came out pretty well but I may spruce it up before the end of the summer.
Today I met with Cindy, my field supervisor at the Stark Center. We determined what audio files we want to have priority in the project and what undergraduates were going to be participating in the project. Right now we have four undergraduates committed to the project. By second semester a couple more may join up.
For the past two weeks the Stark Center has been hosting a conference and all the staff have been extremely busy. The Olympic project was pushed to the back burner so we have lost about five days on my schedule.
The first instruction session will take place on Tuesday 6/14 in the afternoon. Between now and then I will be making sure everything is ready to go so we can get the ball rolling pretty quickly. The Stark Center also wants me to instruct some of their staff in Glifos, which I am happy to do.
Once the instruction session is done, we'll be able to see if my Google docs system for keeping up with the workers is going to work out!
Today I met with Cindy, my field supervisor at the Stark Center. We determined what audio files we want to have priority in the project and what undergraduates were going to be participating in the project. Right now we have four undergraduates committed to the project. By second semester a couple more may join up.
For the past two weeks the Stark Center has been hosting a conference and all the staff have been extremely busy. The Olympic project was pushed to the back burner so we have lost about five days on my schedule.
The first instruction session will take place on Tuesday 6/14 in the afternoon. Between now and then I will be making sure everything is ready to go so we can get the ball rolling pretty quickly. The Stark Center also wants me to instruct some of their staff in Glifos, which I am happy to do.
Once the instruction session is done, we'll be able to see if my Google docs system for keeping up with the workers is going to work out!
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