I just got accepted to take part in this:

Job Description Position Qualifications: Interested participants should have good written and oral communication skills; be willing to work with digital audio equipment; be comfortable working with different ages and ethnicities; be open to group discussion and seminar participation; be willing to share personal experiences throughout the oral history process; have a desire to educate local teachers in classrooms; be interested in local history. Oral historians will be trained on several methodologies of collecting oral histories; will go out into the field and interview residents; will meet monthly to discuss and review relevant texts; will learn from each other’s field experience; and will become the tools for local educators who are interested in bringing oral history techniques into their classrooms.

Commitments

• Attend a panel discussion on Oral History November 8, 2008 from 2 – 4pm
• Attend monthly meetings for an 8-month period
  
• Learn oral history techniques and theory
• Interview residents at various locations
• Use digital voice recorders
• Transcribe full interviews using word processing software
• Read relevant excerpts and full texts
• Collect three interviews and transcribe
• Be a resource for local educators to use oral history techniques in their classrooms

Sooooo excited to be part of this! I think this will be a great resource for homeschooling, and a very interesting project!