Summary
Program
Why are we here?
Gail McClure
Phyllis Meadows
Presentations
 

Methodology

Why archive a meeting on the web

We wanted to carry the discussion to those who couldn't attend and help people imagine (and implement) new directions for youth with IT. We wanted to have the meeting available as a reference. 

How to archive a meeting on the web

First you have to record the meeting, then you move it onto the web. There are many ways to record a meeting and they are all translatable into digital web form, if you can access the right equipment. A nearby university, community technology center, or community access TV station are good places to find equipment and people to help you make it work. We used: 

  • hotel-supplied cassette tape recorders and microphones
  • attendees who kept the recorders going
  • a digital video camera and operator
  • people with markers and flip charts
  • one person taking notes on a laptop
We then transcribed the tapes and edited the presentations and the report-backs from the breakout sessions. We asked each speaker to review, revise if necessary, and approve our posting.

To copy the audio cassettes into digital files that we could edit to create audio clips, we used a digital audio and video editing station at the University of Michigan. As for software tools, we used:

  • Macromedia Dreamweaver (site design)
  • Macromedia Fireworks (image creation)
  • SoundEdit (sound editing)
  • Imovie (video editing)
  • Real Producer (video compression)
  • Powerpoint (coversion of PPT to web pages)

To archive a meeting on the web, we invite you to use this site as a template. Download here a zip file containing all the web pages. And we'd like to hear from you: wkkf.atlanta.1999@umich.edu

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