Words

Session Activity- Write words digitally

Item Produced- Digital spreadsheet of all words, pronunciation, and gloss from the last 13 days.

Summary-  I took each day and made it a sheet in an excel workbook. I then typed five columns (Day, date, word as it was in transcribed, orthographic transcription, and the descriptive meaning of the word or phrase as transcribed). I then took all of these individual day sheets and copied their info into an inclusive list of all days. This list was sorted alphabetically by the orthographic column to make a rudimentary dictionary. If I want to look for a word and only have the English, I can re-sort by the meaning (gloss) Column to get this information.

Linguistic Effective-  re-reading and typing the words in a few sittings was a chance to review the words and make connections I never saw before. This review produced a list of words I had not yet asked

Linguistic Ineffective- Penmanship, pronunciation changes, and incomplete inquisition all contributed to the large patches in the vocabulary list.

Linguistic Provisional Improvements- Penmanship

Cultural Effective- None of great impact

Cultural Ineffective- Not a cultural experience

Cultural Provisional Improvements-  None

Tomorrow- I should write the list of the words I want to ask and bring them back up with the speaker

Further Comments- I had procrastinated this for a while, but now that it is done, I feel much better and more prepared. I am eager to see my speaker's reaction when I present him with this list. I also and eager to get on with my next homework assignment of transcribing the story.

Database-ing

Duration- none 

Session Activity- transcribe notebook into digital database

Item Produced- word documents of lessons 0-9, beginnings of linguist database

Summary- Began to look into a flex data base, an IPA key board, and create a digital orthography key. 

Linguistic Effective- Rocking and rolling re writing  words. Before beginning I downloaded the IPA keyboard (I chose IPA Unicode 6.) and FLEx linguistic database software put out by SIL. I then listed my set  orthography, noting special characters. Reviewing the keyboard manual, i wrote the key sequence needed to make the character beside the character in a separate word document. When I began to transcribe from my notebook, I translated the dictated words into the orthography while transferring them into the digital realm

Linguistic Ineffective- I should not have digitized and translated in the same step. Doing this I lost pronunciation guides. I also should have began the project in excel to create a table instead of word. Later, I had to go back and redo much of my work to correct this mistake.

Linguistic Provisional Improvements- explicitly lay out how this digitizing process should be done (See linguistic effect sections) instead of vague working instructions

Cultural Effective- Re reading and typing was good for memorization

Cultural Ineffective- More of a linguistic than cultural exercise

Cultural Provisional Improvements-  n/a

Tomorrow- finish this- it is taking longer than I imagined

Further Comments- I feel very responsible to complete this word list. In some way, I believe it will show my sincerity to my speaker.