Above image: Dr. William McFarlane training Passamaquoddy teachers in community problem-solving protocol as part of the Passamaquoddy preschool language immersion project, in collaboration with the Passamaquoddy Tribe and funded by the Administration for Native Americans (ANA). At left, Newell Lewey, Passamaquoddy immersion teacher in training. (2016 photo).
We provide specialized video and language and cultural documentation training in a variety of venues, for example, in Southern Mexico, in an ongoing program called TAVICO (Taller de Video Comunitario de Oaxaca). Speaking Place training leads to tools for community engagement, language revitalization, and language teaching and learning.
Video trainees at CoLang 2016 practice filming a cultural performance by Tlinglit singers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Documentary Filmmaking
We provide training and mentoring in all aspects of documentary filmmaking, including project development, script writing, filming, editing, fundraising, and distribution. Our focus is on participatory filmmaking, engaging with community members.
For more information see this video showing work by Speaking Place students at CoLang 2016 at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Language and Cultural Documentation
Basic video documentation of natural group conversation and activity
Facilitation for documentation
Transcription and translation training
Advanced video training with editing and archiving
Basic community self-documentation
Community outreach with feedback filming and presentation
Setting up the community self-documentation system with a media lab and training trainers
Video documentation and feedback as a survey/assessment tool
We provide specialized video and language and cultural documentation training in a variety of venues, for example, in Southern Mexico, in an ongoing program called TAVICO (Taller de Video Comunitario de Oaxaca). Speaking Place training leads to tools for community engagement, language revitalization, and language teaching and learning.
Daniel Quintanilla (center) leads training in visual literacy and critical thinking with Mixe Community Self-Documentation team members in Totontepec, Oaxaca State, Southern Mexico.
Education
Family outreach programming
Fluent Comprehender (trainer) training
Teacher training:
Curriculum planning
Teacher training
Language immersion and Total Physical Response training
Our training programs often support the implementation of a project component and are custom designed to maximize their effect.
Often training includes much more than the title would imply. For instance, video training includes visual literacy and aesthetics in representing community values. The Fluent Comprehender training addresses understanding and reducing the effects of historic trauma. The facilitator training addresses leadership and language revival themes.
(Left to right) Robert Leavitt, Margaret Apt, Julia Schulz, and Eleanor Stevens collaborate in a teacher-training workshop for the Passamaquoddy language immersion preschool
Recent trainingS
TAVICO (Taller de Video Comunitario de Oaxaca), in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca Facultad de Idiomas and CEDELIO 2019-2020
Community self-documentation with video for undergraduate students at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca 2016-2017
Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the National Science Foundation 2016
Mercator European Research Centre, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and SOAS, University of London 2016
Language immersion teacher training and curriculum development, Passamaquoddy Tribe (2015-2018) U.S. Administration for Native Americans
Municipality of Totontepec, Oaxaca, Mexico 2012, 2014-2016) in collaboration with Indiana University, Department of Anthropology and the National Endowment for the Humanities
Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS). Minde, Portugal, Summer Institute 2014