Teaching

Courses

University of Alberta — "Techniques for Endangered Language Documentation" (INT-D 318)

Teaches speakers and learners of Canadian Indigenous languages the technical skills necessary to archive their languages in a database or on the web with collections of text, sound, images, and video. Developed and taught as part of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. (Summer 2012, Summer 2010)

University of Oregon — "Aligning Text to Audio and Video Using ELAN"

A course on the use of ELAN software to create archival-quality transcripts of audio and video and transform ELAN materials into user-friendly presentation formats suitable for language learners and speakers, such as subtitled DVDs and web-based “clickable stories.” Developed and taught with Andrea L. Berez (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) as part of the Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation. (Summer 2010; see course materials)

University of Alberta — "Techniques for Endangered Language Documentation - Tsuut'ina" (INT-D 318)

Teaches speakers and learners of Tsuut'ina the technical skills necessary to archive their languages in a database or on the web with collections of text, sound, images, and video. Developed and taught as a customized course for Tsuut'ina speakers and learners as part of the Community Linguist Certificate Program at the Tsuu T'ina Nation, in collaboration with the Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute and contributing Elders Carl Big Plume, Gerald Meguinis, Bernice Starlight, and Bruce Starlight. (Spring 2009)

University of Alberta — "Best Practices for Recording and Digitizing Speech" (Linguistics 311)

A course on recording language for community language resource development, long-term language documentation, and linguistic analysis. Provides hands-on experience in recording, transcribing, and editing audio and video of Canadian Indigenous languages. Developed and taught as part of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. (Summer 2009)

University of Alberta — "Introduction to Linguistic Analysis for Indigenous Language Revitalization" (Linguistics 111)

Teaches students the central concepts of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics) with special attention to Canadian Indigenous languages. Taught as part of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. (Summer 2011)

University of Alberta — "Phonetics of Indigenous Languages" (Linguistics 211)

Teaching assistant for Benjamin V. Tucker, helping students to record, transcribe, and produce speech sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet and describe the sound systems of Canadian Indigenous languages. Taught as part of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. (Summer 2008)

Workshops

Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute (2008-)
  • 2011 — "Developing Tsuut'ina language resource materials." Invited, two-day workshop on developing recorded language materials (interviews, stories, word lists) into permanent language resources (dictionaries, storybooks). Calgary, Alberta, November 7-8, 2011.
  • 2010 — "Understanding and analyzing tone in Tsuut'ina." Invited, half-day workshop on pitch, tone, and orthography in Tsuut'ina. Tsuu T'ina Nation, December 3, 2010.
  • 2010 — "Developing digital language resources for Tsuut'ina." Invited, two-day workshop on digital language recording, transcription, and sharing techniques. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, August 3-4, 2010.
  • 2010 — "Tsuut'ina discourse patterns and morphological analysis" (with Sally Rice). Invited, full-day workshop on the linguistic structure of spoken Tsuut'ina at the word and sentence levels. Tsuu T'ina Nation, March 2, 2010.
  • 2008 — "Practical Tsuut'ina phonetics and orthography." Invited, half-day workshop on the sounds of Tsuut'ina and their representation in the Tsuut'ina spelling system. Tsuu T'ina Nation, November 13, 2008.
University of Lethbridge — "Developing and distributing language resources using ELAN." (2010)
  • Invited, one-day workshop on aligning text to video and audio using the ELAN software package, offered for the Michif Dictionary Project, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, May 5, 2010.
American Association for Corpus Linguistics — "Time-aligned transcription in ELAN." (2009)
  • Invited, half-day workshop on creating text-searchable collections of spoken language materials using the ELAN software package. Edmonton, Alberta, October 8, 2009. (slides, materials)