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    Transcribing Tonkinson's Southeast Ambrym recordings: first impressions and community experiences
    Ridge E; Donald E; Wase S
    This paper will discuss our experiences of transcribing audio recordings made by anthropologist Bob Tonkinson (1967) in Southeast Ambrym and Mele Maat between 1966 and 2002, archived with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and Paradisec. The 75 hours of recordings include musical performances, custom celebrations, church services, community meetings, and interviews, in Vatlongos (aka. Southeast Ambrym), Bislama and occasional English, as well as Tonkinson’s anthropological observations. As part of a wider project looking at young people’s language use and attitudes, we have worked with young speakers of Vatlongos (aged 18-30) to transcribe these archival recordings, in order to make the archived materials more available to the wider community, and investigate longitudinal language change. While language use in the past is often held up as a standard that the young people of today are falling short of, it is hoped that this experience will instead position young community members as experts on historical language use, demystifying language change in Vatlongos and Vatlongos-speaking communities. This is also an opportunity for training and practice in using written Vatlongos, identified as a priority for community language goals, especially to support Vatlongos-medium education in early school years, and increased use of the Vatlongos Bible translation. Responding to Himmelmann’s (2018) call for closer attention to be paid to transcription in language documentation, this paper will discuss the rationale, methods and logistics for conducting a large transcription project across multiple locations, remotely and with inexperienced transcribers, including ethical considerations and support systems. We will focus on experiences of running transcriber training sessions, transcribers’ experiences of engaging with recordings of their ancestors, and our first impressions of possible evidence of language change and changing language use in Vatlongos-speaking communities.
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    Embedding digital information literacy into contact workshops: Authentic, case-based research tasks informing cross-discipline case discussion
    (Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand, 2021) Laven, L; Baxter, K; Hill, K
    The Masters of Veterinary Medicine is a 120 credit, online programme, comprising four or five taught courses (15 credit), and a research report (45/60 credits). Each course incorporates a contact workshop (face-to-face and/or online) of ~3 days. Research shows support resources are crucial for enhancing information literacy in postgraduate students (Eldermire et al., 2019; Stagg & Kimmins, 2014). Initially, science librarians (SciLib) were integrated into the MVM through EndNote support forums (Laven et al., 2018), but real-time integration of SciLib has now been introduced at contact workshops. Prior to these workshops, each subject lecturer develops a case-based research task and relevant clinical research questions that are sent to the SciLib so they can prepare search strategies. Students complete a digital information literacy quiz, and collated responses are forwarded to the SciLib. This enables the subsequent tutorial to be customised to the needs of the individuals attending. During the workshop, the SciLib deliver a short tutorial on digital literacy before moving on to look at the research tasks set for the case. Students research the clinical questions, while librarians provide personalised support to students both in the room and online. Following these subject-specific library sessions, all classes combine for an interactive discussion session (also streamed) which showcases how library research can affect decision making in case management. This practice has resulted in students starting research report courses equipped with enhanced skills related to sourcing and reviewing literature.
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    Collaborative activity in an online bilingual exchange: Social presence in an emergent collaborative community
    (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 19/10/2015) Walker, UG
    The paper explores the discursive construction of social presence in an international online collaboration of distributed language learners from different cultural, institutional and linguistic backgrounds. It utilizes and extends Galley et al.’s (2014) ‘community indicators’ as an explanatory framework relatively new to the second language acquisition context. Tentative findings from this research in progress highlight the prominent role of discursively constructed social presence as a building block in constructing and maintaining cohesive social ties. It is argued that collaborative floor and playful conduct are key contributors to cohesion and the development of community.