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View of Entrance to Coral Way Elementary School , 2007 INTRODUCTION The Coral Way Project is a born-digital oral history project in partnership with the College of Education. It will provide a model for the collection, transcription, organization and dissemination of original audio files that will be made available through the Digital Commons. GOALS: • To fill a substantial gap in extant knowledge about the first bilingual-bicultural programs for Spanish and English speakers. A companion goal is to access and document information related to the impact of Coral Way Elementary School’s pioneering bilingual-bicultural program on bilingual-bicultural education in the state of Arizona. • To develop and organize for electronic access, the Libraries’ first digital oral history recordings and resulting transcripts. OBJECTIVES: • To develop a model for planning and implementing an oral history/transcription project for librarians. • To produce a comprehensive written and oral history of Coral Way Elementary’s Bilingual Program; and its historical impact on bilingual education in Arizona. • To locate, secure and organize important documentation of the very important experiences in those first years of official bilingual education for Spanish and English speakers in public schools. • To provide electronic access to an organized collection of all of the primary research materials acquired and produced as a result of this project. NATIONAL IMPACT: The national impact of this original bilingual program influenced federal legislation and Arizona’s educational system. Much of the existing published information about the school, such as text book references are either incorrect or incomplete. STEPS: • Develop contact list • Develop questionnaires for interviews • Develop release forms for interviews • Identify, select and purchase digital recording equipment • Train on equipment • Submit IRB Human Subjects application • Develop plan for creating digital access to 25 audio interviews and accompanying documents including interview transcripts and personal memorabilia. • Plan to include metadata, cataloging, policies, access guidelines. • Develop navigation for user access. SAMPLE RELEASE FORM – MEMORABILIA: I, _______________________________, understand that the documents (report cards, lessons, photographs etc.) in traditional or electronic format that I give to the University of Arizona Libraries for the Coral Way Elementary Project on _________________ will be protected by copyright held by the University of Arizona Libraries. I understand that all materials will be deposited in the University of Arizona Libraries archives and made available to the public in the digital repository or the Special Collections Archives and through digital imaging from the University of Arizona’s website. I hereby grant unrestricted permission for the following uses: • Research by scholars at the University of Arizona. Research use does not imply permission to publish. Scholars are responsible for obtaining permissions from the copyright holders. • University of Arizona Libraries materials and programs produced for educational purposes including lectures, exhibitions, web-based presentations, and publications. CORAL WAY A Digital Oral History and Transcription Project PROJECT OWNERS: Louise Greenfield – Project Lead Richard Ruiz – Professor, College of Education Sharon Knowlton – DLIST Team Leader Steven N. Jury – DLIST Program Manager Amy Rule – CCP Librarian Bess de Farber – Grants & Revenue Manager Representative – TST Brenda G. Walsh – Poster Design Sample - Coral Way Elementary Oral History Project Survey 1. Introduction This survey provides principal investigators leading the Coral Way Elementary Oral History Project with important information about participants in the project. Information provided will be used to provide profiles about those participating in the project for use in an online exhibit and subsequent research findings. Thank you for taking 5 minutes to complete the survey. If at any time you wish to add information or change it after you have completed the survey, simply click on the link to this survey from your email message and you will be able to see your responses and change your answers, if you desire. 1. Contact information: Name Address Home Phone Daytime Phone Email Address [ [ [ [ [ ] ] ] ] ] 2. Date of Birth [ ] 3. What is your city/state/country of birth? [ ] 4. What is your ethnicity? [ ] 5. What was your role? Student Teacher Teacher's Aide Administrator Parent [ [ [ [ [ ] ] ] ] ] 6. Years involved in or attended Coral Way Elementary? 1962/63 [ ] 1963/64 [ ] 1964/65 [ ] 1965/66 [ ] 1966/67 [ ] 1967/68 [ ] Years beyond those listed above [ ] 7. Where did you live while attending or working at Coral Way Elementary? [ ] 8. What languages do you speak/understand? What languages do you speak/understand? Native language Language(s) used at home in the 60s [ [ ] ] [ ] 9. In which language group were you assigned? Spanish Speakers [ ] English Speakers 10. If your relatives also attended Coral Way Elementary at any time, please list their names and relationships to you. 11. If you attended an institution of higher education, where did you attend and what were your major areas of study? 12. What is your current occupation, and what other careers have you had? Sample Questions for Coral Way Interviews: (S=Student, T=Teacher, P=Parent, C=Community Member, A=Administrator, O=Other) Program Recollections: • (S/T/A) What was the ratio of Spanish and English use in the classrooms? • (S/T/A) Were some subjects always in one language or the other? Which? • (S/T/A) In what language(s) were the curriculum materials? • (T/A) Where were the materials published (locally, national publisher, internationally) • (S/T/A) What was your day like? (classes, language distribution, language change over time) • (S) Can you read and write in your second language now? • (S) Did you attend any after-school activities? • (S) In what language did you speak to your school friends out of school? • (All) What did you enjoy most and least about your experience of the Coral Way Bilingual Program? WE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY AND PURCHASE THE APPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT: Selection, purchasing and training on equipment was conducted by David Mayhew, DLIST Support Systems Analyst. Equipment Manifest: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • One Portabrace PB-2500 case One Maritz PMD660 Solid State Recorder in a padded zippered pouch One Marantz power adapter Two Shure SM63 microphones with windscreens in individual zippered pouches One Wolverine 120GB portable hard drive in a Cordura nylon velcro flap pouchT One Wolverine power adapter (labeled UNIFIVE) Two male to female six-foot XLR microphone cables Two male to female fifteen-foot XLR microphone cables Five Lexar 4GB Compact Flash (CF) cards and plastic cases in a padded zippered pouch One USB mini A to B connector cable One USB A to B connector cable One mini phono plug to RCA red/white cable One pair of Sony MDR-V600 headphones in a drawstring bag Two Atlas tabletop microphone stands with two Shure microphone clips One roll of two-inch gaffer's tape One TSA SafeSkies combination lock (A501) SAMPLE LOGGING QUESTIONS: Date Time Location Interviewer Interviewee CF Card Number Track Number Event Time Comments PHASE TWO: In phase two, materials will be displayed such as information from newspapers, journal articles, and textbooks as well as citation information and appropriate links. The secondary information will focus on the development of bilingual education in both Arizona and South Florida. Opportunities for collaboration with other universities are being explored, including discussions with the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection in Special Collections, and the Historical Museum of South Florida.