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'''Our Stories''' (http://www.ourstories.org) is a joint project involving UNICEF, Google, OLPC and others to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks. |
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== About == |
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You can find more details at the main wikipage for the project (not just the OLPC storytelling component of it), at '''[http://www.mepemepe.com/wiki/Our_Stories mepemepe.com]'''. |
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'''Our Stories''' is a joint project involving OLPC, UNICEF, Google, and Story Corps to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks. |
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== Background == |
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The Story Corps team are advising on modifications to their recommended process for interviewing a friend or loved one that will work for a young audience of interviewers; the idea is to localize the process and surrounding projects, and to carry out class activities around such interviews in OLPC partner countries. The project hopes to have 1 million stories, and to have a third of all XO owners to have recorded a story, by the end of the first year. |
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The Story Corps team helped with advice about their own process for interviewing a friend or loved one that will work for a young audience of interviewers; the idea is to localize the process and surrounding projects, and to carry out class activities around such interviews in OLPC partner countries. The project hopes to have a third of all XO owners record a story by the end of next year. |
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A draft proposal outlines six initial countries [Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ethiopia] and interface sketches. |
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: Update -- Uruguay, Rwanda, and Ethiopia are all still active OLPC countries; Nigeria had a 12-month hiatus thanks in part to a patent lawsuit covering the OLPC Nigerian keyboard; but 6,000 children and teachers are receiving XOs in mid-2009. |
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: Barbara Berry is starting a series of storytelling and learning workshops in-country, aiming to start sustainable seeds of storytelling. Ghana will host the first storytelling workshop in January, 2009. |
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The website designed for this phase of the project launched at http://www.ourstories.org in December 2007, and quickly blossomed to 8 languages, including Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. |
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Questions to answer include: |
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* how to get recording tools to children across the country |
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* how to develop localized activities around interviewing and recording others, and around reading the stories of others |
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* how to spread the word; introducing children, parents, and other teachers to the ideas behind the project and ways to upload and share recorded stories; building networks of Our Stories participants and broadcasters; providing posters about the project to telecenters and radio stations |
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There is an '''[[Our Stories teachers guide]]''' developed with a great deal of input from Google's editorial team, and like the rest of the site work was made to make this ready for translation into multiple languages. |
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== Status and Goals == |
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From the most recent Google project lead discussion: |
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*Content editing for interview guides and website |
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*Team leads for country networks |
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*Engineering: can use the Platypus infra to host audio files |
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:One person working on front-end of website |
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:2 folks with XOs who want to work with OLPC |
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The [[Activity]]: symbolic interface w/ 3 symbols: record, play [and search], upload |
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=== Phase 1 Issues === |
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Issues that still need to be resolved: |
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===Tech notes=== |
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* getting recording tools to children across the country who don't have XOs |
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Send use case docs around |
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* developing localized activities around interviewing and recording others, and reading/hearing the stories of others |
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* spreading the word; introducing children, parents, and other teachers to the ideas behind the project and ways to upload and share recorded stories; building networks of Our Stories participants and broadcasters; providing posters about the project to telecenters and radio stations |
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* improving the usability of web-based recording tools such as the flash interface at http://ourstories.mepemepe.com . |
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* getting new stories added quickly; recording more stories from the field from OLPC. most stories used in Phase 1 were Museo da Pessoa and UNICEF stories, with new UNICEF recordings in Tanzania and elsewhere. |
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* getting more buy-in from schools in Nigeria! |
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== Phase 2 plan == |
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ogg and mp3 available everywhere. |
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In late 2008, a second phase was designed and started, planned to run on the Google Apps platform and to draw a new wave of interested partners and recording groups. The alpha version of the phase 2 site is being put up at http://ourstories.mepemepe.com . It includes a Flash-based interface for recording new stories, and allows direct uploads. |
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=== Homepage=== |
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2 sections on the homepage: |
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#who the partners are and contributors |
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#interview guides and content |
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olpc, storycorps and other site. |
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== Quick Links == |
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--> built, hosted, &c on google.com infra. private labels elsewhere? |
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* Our Stories [http://www.cogito.org/articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID=16713 Press Release] |
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* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1069348599554557942 Google "Tech Talk"] about Our Stories (video) |
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== Teachers' Guide to Interview Recording == |
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Someone from earth-maps outreach; working in july, at least committing to get storycorps stories online. Not huge incremental additional effort to put all uga, pak, bra likewise. |
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== Country Pages == |
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Note difference between google maps and google earth; later requires fat client. |
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*[[Our Stories Nigeria]] |
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*[[Our Stories Brasil]] |
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*[[Our Stories Uruguay]] |
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== Related Projects == |
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=== Museum of the Person === |
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Some followup call with the ministries; across unicef nigeria and olpc nigeria? |
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The [[Museum of the Person]] is a museum in Brasil which focuses among other things on gathering oral and video histories. They have a recording booth at their HQ that anyone can come and use any day of the week, and are contributing some of their existing recorded stories to the Our Stories project. They occasionally set up videobooths in other parts of the country as well. |
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==Our Stories Activity== |
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unicef wanted some equal targeting of 6 geopolitical zones. this is a reason to find alternatives ---> question re: resource allocation to pda activities. |
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* see '''[[Interview]]''' for an OurStories-specific activity |
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* A version of Record designed to work with build 625 saves the stories out to the filesystem, rather than the datastore, which allows for synchronizing them with a remote server. The current methods of adding stories to the global map involve sending a trusted server's address to the OurStories team. |
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*: '''[[:Image:OurStories-625-1.xo|Record-for-OurStories-1.xo]]''' |
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Stories recorded through any of these methods should be passed on with the '''metadata''' listed at [[OurStoriesXML]]. At the moment, some of this must be added by hand. |
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four languages [ibo, hausa, yoruba, english] |
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==External links== |
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l10n/i18n capability : G! have folks ready to help. |
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*[http://www.ourstories.org Our Stories.org] in 7 languages |
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgFgY9xkks4 Our Stories Project: OLPC, UNICEF, Google, with StoryCorps] |
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[[Category:Journalism]] |
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dump things into OLPC first. turnaround and validation. |
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{{Activity page |
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discover $ cost; trans agency might split the cost. |
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|genre=Documents (Read, Write, and Share) |
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|short description=Our Stories (http://www.ourstories.org) is a joint project involving OLPC, UNICEF, Google, and others to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks. |
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Website meeting: |
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Plan sth for early next week. what does the interface and arch look like? |
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|activity source=http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/ourstories |
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Rough deadlines: |
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:July 15 - mockup from engineering (zahed, frankie c. doing coord) |
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|bundle URL=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:OurStories-3.xo |
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:July 21 - all content (abi dhaba? site designer; oolas doing website; rota, webmaster for .org as well for standards) |
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:Aug 1 - draft |
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:Aug 15 - submitted to translation |
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project plan map -- content and eng side, with a content map. |
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(maiko) doing non-eng, (phil farhi) doing project across all. |
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=== People === |
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Brouna - country lead brasil |
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Nataile - s.c. admin |
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Maiko - non-end coord |
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Daisuke - came to first meeting, cf maiko |
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Rota - web grp |
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Jed? - country lead Nig; Katherine is the other, from OS team |
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Allie - editorial |
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John - eng, voice recorder on XO |
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Heather - editorial, site & teacher content |
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Jen Liu - work with Stephanie, Uruguay |
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Laura - editorial, work with Holly |
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Holly - editorial |
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Stephen |
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Jane - country lead for Arg |
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Chris - Apps team, Arg lead |
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Sarah - Rwanda country lead, l10n coord |
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Shyam? - not there |
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Phil Farhi - proj coord (not there) |
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restricted access / content policing -- youtube has human/monetary efforts. jamendo much smaller... with community efforts. |
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john: website launch team needs traffic ideas, are a bit wary that they just offered to let millions of people upload audio of arbitrary length to a central site, and want estimates of peak upload / visitation traffic. |
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[[Category:Content ideas]] |
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[[Category:Activities]] |
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Latest revision as of 20:37, 15 October 2009
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Our Stories (http://www.ourstories.org) is a joint project involving UNICEF, Google, OLPC and others to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks.
You can find more details at the main wikipage for the project (not just the OLPC storytelling component of it), at mepemepe.com.
Background
The Story Corps team helped with advice about their own process for interviewing a friend or loved one that will work for a young audience of interviewers; the idea is to localize the process and surrounding projects, and to carry out class activities around such interviews in OLPC partner countries. The project hopes to have a third of all XO owners record a story by the end of next year.
A draft proposal outlines six initial countries [Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ethiopia] and interface sketches.
- Update -- Uruguay, Rwanda, and Ethiopia are all still active OLPC countries; Nigeria had a 12-month hiatus thanks in part to a patent lawsuit covering the OLPC Nigerian keyboard; but 6,000 children and teachers are receiving XOs in mid-2009.
- Barbara Berry is starting a series of storytelling and learning workshops in-country, aiming to start sustainable seeds of storytelling. Ghana will host the first storytelling workshop in January, 2009.
The website designed for this phase of the project launched at http://www.ourstories.org in December 2007, and quickly blossomed to 8 languages, including Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.
There is an Our Stories teachers guide developed with a great deal of input from Google's editorial team, and like the rest of the site work was made to make this ready for translation into multiple languages.
Phase 1 Issues
Issues that still need to be resolved:
- getting recording tools to children across the country who don't have XOs
- developing localized activities around interviewing and recording others, and reading/hearing the stories of others
- spreading the word; introducing children, parents, and other teachers to the ideas behind the project and ways to upload and share recorded stories; building networks of Our Stories participants and broadcasters; providing posters about the project to telecenters and radio stations
- improving the usability of web-based recording tools such as the flash interface at http://ourstories.mepemepe.com .
- getting new stories added quickly; recording more stories from the field from OLPC. most stories used in Phase 1 were Museo da Pessoa and UNICEF stories, with new UNICEF recordings in Tanzania and elsewhere.
- getting more buy-in from schools in Nigeria!
Phase 2 plan
In late 2008, a second phase was designed and started, planned to run on the Google Apps platform and to draw a new wave of interested partners and recording groups. The alpha version of the phase 2 site is being put up at http://ourstories.mepemepe.com . It includes a Flash-based interface for recording new stories, and allows direct uploads.
Quick Links
- Our Stories Press Release
- Google "Tech Talk" about Our Stories (video)
Teachers' Guide to Interview Recording
Country Pages
Related Projects
Museum of the Person
The Museum of the Person is a museum in Brasil which focuses among other things on gathering oral and video histories. They have a recording booth at their HQ that anyone can come and use any day of the week, and are contributing some of their existing recorded stories to the Our Stories project. They occasionally set up videobooths in other parts of the country as well.
Our Stories Activity
- see Interview for an OurStories-specific activity
- A version of Record designed to work with build 625 saves the stories out to the filesystem, rather than the datastore, which allows for synchronizing them with a remote server. The current methods of adding stories to the global map involve sending a trusted server's address to the OurStories team.
Stories recorded through any of these methods should be passed on with the metadata listed at OurStoriesXML. At the moment, some of this must be added by hand.
External links
Activity Summary
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