Week 9-10

It is hard to believe that I only have a month left with the capstone!  I have already started working on the capstone poster and the end is finally in sight.

I put together a rough outline of what I want to accomplish in the following weeks: 

July 18-22:  Create scripts for tutorials

July 25-29:  Film tutorials

Aug 1-5:      Edit tutorials and create text-based tutorials

Aug 8-12:    Analyze statistics/capstone poster creation/write up evaluation of project

Aug 15-16:  Evaluations of Students/Present training materials 

It is looking like I'll have three main tutorials.  One dealing with the presentation software, another about the transcription software, and a third covering transcription standards and resources that the transcribers should use.  I'll have to create one or two text based tutorials to go along with the video tutorials. I'm recording on video things about the software or standards that are least likely to change while using the text based tutorials to cover things that are more likely to change since they are easier to update.  Parts of the process that may change would be mainly file paths to where files are located. 

My goal is to leave the Stark Center with a set of materials where all they need to do is sit an intern down in front of a computer with these video tutorials and a couple text based tutorials and the intern will be able to start transcribing. 

I have one intern who is ending the project this week.  I'll have a sit down with him to get his impressions of the project on Wednesday.  After that, I only have the one intern working on transcription. 

As part of my final analysis of the project, I've decided to look into grant possibilities for transcription.  Getting a grant to hire a transcription intern would really speed up the project.  I would think that getting class credit for doing transcription would be enough to motivate interns, but after this summer, it is pretty clear that it is not enough to motivate interns at the Stark Center.  I have also concerned setting time goals, like transcribe 30 minutes of audio each week.  That would give them a clear milestone each week, similar to completing an assignment.  Completion/quality of the transcription would factor into determining their grade.