It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Research oral history consent forms. Do an online search, or ask your special collection for an example of their consent forms. Select one or two and review them for ethics, consent, future use, and other best practices. What does this consent form to well? What is it missing?*

*Remember to share criticism with an academic, neutral tone. No need to upset anyone! 

Today's Resources:

Oral History Association: Ethics, Consent, and Best Practices:

• https://www.oralhistory.org/principles-and-best-practices-revised-2018/ 
• https://www.oralhistory.org/oha-statement-on-ethics/
• https://www.oralhistory.org/best-practices/ 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Take time today to read about the craft of oral history. And reflect on these questions: Before you started doing these challenges, what did you think oral history entailed? And now that you’ve done some research today, how (if at all) have your opinions on oral history changed?

Today's Resources:

Oral History Association: Ethics, Consent, and Best Practices:

• Donald Ritchie: Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide 
• Donna DeBlasio et al., Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History 
• Minnesota Historical Society: "Oral History Project Guide" 
• Sady Sullivan with Maggie Schreiner, "If You’re Thinking About Starting An Oral History Project"
• Arizona Historical Society, Oral History Workshop Handout

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Using what you've learned through your pre-interview research, review your interview questions and edit, adjust, reorder, or otherwise improve your questions with your new-found contextual and biographical knowledge. 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Identify which of these strategies you think will work best for you when it comes to pre-interview biographical research: 

1. Email the questions to your narrator;
2. Schedule a pre-interview phone call;
3. Do your own research

Select which ever strategy works best for you, and try it! Draft an email, schedule a phone call, or start doing research. If you’re not ready to do this with an actual narrator, use a friend or family member, or someone whose oral history is already published as a model. 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Create a biographical questionnaire. A sort of profile of your narrator that you develop with or about them before the interview.

Come up with 7-10 factual details you’d like to know about the person you will interview in advance. In a future challenge, we can discuss how you might go about getting this information. But for now, just create your ideal biographical questionnaire!  

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Create your own Historical Questionnaire of topics about the world around your narrator you need to research before your interview.

On your own, brainstorm an action plan for how you can begin researching to complete your Historical Questionnaire. 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Come up with a list of things you need to know or research in order to draft meaningful interview questions. 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Identify how you plan to work forward in these challenges, and with what lens. Are you looking at oral history as a set of interviews? Or a larger project/collection?

Today's Resources:
Donna DeBlasio et al., Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History.

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: write five potential interview questions for your pie in the sky narrators. One for each sense. 

• Sight
• Smell
• Touch
• Hear
• Taste 

Select your favorite of the five and call up a friend or relative. Ask them the question! See what kinds of answers they give you. 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Follow along with our story, looking for biographical details and examples of historical context. Then, write your own story!

This is a real-time challenge, so feel free to slow down the speed or pause the episode as you need. 

Today's Resources: 

• South Phoenix Oral History Project's Training Materials: https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/resources/

You can also watch the video, "Context Lab II" https://youtu.be/Qh8VRWsQ2ho 

Share your progress with us:
@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)
[email protected]

More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association.