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 and complete the diagram to visualize yourself and your historical context! 

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 Training Manual: https://southphoenixoralhistory.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/training-spoh-oral-history-materials-1-1.pdf  
• Sylvia's* Historical Context Diagram (Sample)

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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: I’m going to give you a few options. Do one, do them all, it’s up to you. 

1. Take a look at Monika Vrzgulova’s article. What does it make you think of?
2. Write down some ways you can build trust with the people you are interviewing, especially during raw moments in the conversation. 
3. Write down any “triggers” that might influence your ability to maintain your neutrality as an interviewer. Is there something a narrator might say that would make you recoil? Fearful? Uncomfortable? 

Today's Resources:

• Vrzgulová, M. (2019). The Oral History Interview – A Relationship and Space of Trust. Slovenský národopis, 67(4), 430–440, https://doi.org/10.2478/ se-2019-0025  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338109197_The_Oral_History_Interview_-_A_Relationship_and_Space_of_Trust

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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: Wait. Two. Seconds.

Today's Resources:
https://www.gq.com/story/be-a-better-listener 

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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: Look them in the mouth! Try interviewing a friend or family member, and shift your focus - look at their eyes, then their mouth, then back.

Today's Resources:
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/wellbeing/how-to-talk-about-health-problems/active-listening


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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: Let’s work on our nonverbal active listening cues together. Select one nonverbal active listening cue and try it out! Interview a friend or family member with the intent to practice one of these nonverbal active listening cues: smiling, eye contact, head nods, mirroring, posture, whatever you think you need to practice!

Nonverbal active listening cues to practice:

• Eye contact
• Intermediate eye contact
• Head nod
• Note taking
• Smiling
• Slightly raised eyebrows
• Upright posture
• Body position that is leaned in toward the speaker
• Mirroring 
• Manage the physical set up

Today's Resources:

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10904018.2013.813234 
• https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/active-listening.html  
• https://www.poynter.org/educators-students/2016/5-non-verbal-ways-to-be-an-active-listener/ 
• https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/

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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 10 sample questions.

Today's Resources:

• https://djhs.org/videooral-histories/50-questions-for-an-oral-history-interview/ 
• http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html#QUESTIONS 
• https://youtu.be/q9PUuksGRzM 
• https://siarchives.si.edu/history/how-do-oral-history 

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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: Today, I ask you a series of questions, and as I do, I want you to answer on your own. Feel free to pause the recording as needed. It’s okay if you don’t know the “right” answers. Just write down what you think. You can even write, “I don’t know.”
 
Today's Resources:

• Books on Oral History Methods: https://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=865473&p=6213158 
• Routledge's Series on Practicing Oral History: https://www.routledge.com/Practicing-Oral-History/book-series/POHLCP
• Donald Ritchie's Doing Oral History https://books.google.com/books/about/Doing_Oral_History.html?id=6l-mV7M5GlQC

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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: I’m asking you: “What do you want out of this?” Write down your hopes for this season of More and More Every Day.

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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 your elevator speech. Sit down with your journal or laptop and write up what you would say to someone if they asked you “what is oral history?” Try to avoid answering as if you’re talking to a student, a colleague, or someone who already knows the answer.

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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: What were your first interviews? Did you ever try to transcribe a movie, or song, just because you wanted to? For today’s challenge, write down any memories you have of doing oral history before you even knew what oral history was.
 

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