{"id":6100,"date":"2023-06-28T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:48:46","slug":"recording-community-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2023\/06\/28\/recording-community-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Community Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AASReviewImage\"<\/a>Following on from the North Uist \u201cWellbeing\u201d survey, Gordon Wells this week reviewed the Island Voices contribution to the Aire air Sunnd<\/a> project led by Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath.<\/p>\n

Adopting a slightly different format to Jess Wood’s presentations<\/a> last week, Gordon speaks to camera on Zoom while screen-sharing key content from the Island Voices Aire air Sunnd webpage<\/a>. Speaking in Gaelic he reinforces the point that using this language does not exclude non-speakers or early learners, given the multilingual technical resources that are now available online.<\/p>\n

His video recaps the various recordings that have been created for the project in the past year or so, including the \u201cGaelic Crisis\u201d presentation<\/a>, and the Progress Report<\/a>, as well as the recording sessions with community members covering storytelling<\/a>, artefact description<\/a>, and environmental issues<\/a>. In so doing, it also shows how the YouTube subtitling and auto-translation functions can be put to effective use, and includes a quick demonstration of the Clilstore platform too, while emphasising the alternative effectiveness of recorded speech in a world where written communication is often taken for granted as the default norm.<\/p>\n

Summing up, Gordon stresses the untapped value of various recording collections (in addition to Island Voices\u2019 own), noting in particular how open resources such as Tobar an Dualchais<\/a> have the potential to bring present and past communities together in a new manner to support North Uist cultural wellbeing, offering innovative ways of forward-looking engagement with the island\u2019s Gaelic heritage so positively valued by all. At the same time, it needs to be recognised that community-wide engagement<\/em> in such activity is dependent on community-wide comfort<\/em> with the new digital tools that enable it. This is probably an area of work that needs closer attention.<\/p>\n

Here’s Gordon’s talk on YouTube:<\/p>\n