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July 19, 2005

Oral History Podcast

I have a new idea, this one I'm actually going to do something about: an oral history podcast. I don't usually like to blog about ideas I'm actually doing something about, seems like a jinx, but in this case, I need your suggestions for a name for the project.

It will go like this:

A host interviews an oral historian about oral history projects he or she has done, playing clips from the oral history project. The conversation between host and guest is guided by an interest in how the materials might be integrated into K-16 US history classrooms.

Another downloadable file on the same site, called "for the classroom" would consist of just the audio clips played during the interview, so that a teacher could have it cued up for use in the classroom without commentary.

Yet another audio file could consist of the entire oral history interview/s, if that's do-able in terms of legalities/server space/etc.

That's my idea!

So far, names I've considered or had suggested and rejected because they are too close to other projects (I don't want to be the Rolax of the historical world) or already had the domain names taken include:

historycast (Chris's good suggestion, but taken)
castfromthepast (.com is taken)
speakinghistory (too close to "talking history" the OAH radio show -- I imagine they'll turn that into a podcast at some point)
podcastfromthepast (that one's actually available but ...)
oralhistorypodcast (available but boooring)

I'm refraining from making a bunch of oral jokes, although Melissa got in a few good ones about anal historians.

Posted by mary at July 19, 2005 9:10 AM

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