#100happydays (nearly Wrote 100 Happy Dates! I Should Be So Lucky!) Day Four (I'm Already Losing Count).

I will try and keep more of a track of my work and career development here as well as interesting things (to me at least) connected with museums and learning, access and digital in particular.

Think it took me a whole term (of not studying) after my degree to get to the place where I am now - trying to think more strategically about my career.... In particular about how I can develop my freelance skills as well as keeping my eyes open for more  permenant work opportunities. I'm open to a lot but also know what's important to me - to feel good in a role - and in what I can offer in a role. ... The journey continues!

"The Wee Weaver" sent in by Emmie Ward, supported by Aimée.

Jam packed Westow Park for the crystal palace overground festival... Where I was happy to meet some familiar faces as well as some previously twitter only acquaintances. I also met some new locals at their stalls (and shops) - i introduced myself and handed out some little flyers to try and recruit more trail participants!

Cutty Sark to Greenwich North - listening to 'Dockers' audio trail - part two

Finale of the fantastic spoken word event that was part of the crystal palace overground festival! Glad I went. Would be great to have some park related spoken word in the audio trail.... Ill look into it. Time to sleep ready for the full on festival day tomorrow...

Oral History Consent Forms, recording equipment etc

I meant to add this a few days ago. I thought it might be helpful for people to know where I found some resources for making consent forms and making sure I was not infringing on copyright etc, as well as some info about choosing recording equipment:

Advice on recording equipment from GEM:

 http://www.gem.org.uk/soyh/toolkit/mini/mini-toolkit-4.php

Advice on recording equipment from East Midlands Oral History Archive:

http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training/no3.pdf

Info about copyright from East Midlands Oral History Archive::

http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training/no4.pdf

Oral history interview guidelines and techniques from GEM:

http://www.gem.org.uk/res/howto/ball/res_inter.php

Oral History Ethics from the Oral History Society:

http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/ethics.php

Oral History practical advice for getting started from the Oral History Society:

http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/practical-advice.php

This has a great guide to all things digital, including equipment by JISC:

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/

And this great link from a friend which compares main digital recording equipment:

http://transom.org/?page_id=7514

and finally, this was the video from the same friend -that helped me choose which audio equipment to get:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmwuS9QOlvs

Fingers crossed it was right :)

As I have said before I was very grateful for the advice I received from the GEM (Group for Education in Museums) discussion mailing list as well as he MCG (Museums Computer Group) mailing list for a lot of this advice. Good luck if you are embarking on the same process....

#100happydays day 3 not really a noticing something but more happy that I think I've finished another audio trail segment.... Now to wait and see if people are happy with it :)

untitled travels, a set on Flickr.

I'll try and pick out some photos to mention in particular, but don't want to upload unending individual posts at this moment in time and overload you. This album may not mean much to you, but documents my travels so far... Mostly in London, starting and often retuning to Crystal Palace Park - as well as my overground and tram travels .... to the Museum of London and Morden Hall Park respectively.. Bognor Regis gets briefly into the mix as well as quite a lot of nature photos... You can see some themes of interest emerging - trees and duck/goslings!

Fort Tyson Park on the way to The Cloisters - beautiful & perfect day for it!

....a visit to the famous Katz Deli...