Encouraging students to conduct oral history in the classroom can foster critical thinking skills and deeper engagement with the curriculum, as well as a wide array of interview and oral history skills. Kristin Szylvian of St. John’s University, who has conducted oral history projects with both undergraduate and graduate students, says that TheirStory has helped make it possible to bring oral history to the classroom.
I have found TheirStory to be a product that has been wonderfully helpful in assisting my students and giving my students the confidence they need to make oral history interviews, to be able to transcribe those interviews in a timely fashion, with great accuracy, with a wide divergence of people.
The ability to handle multiple aspects of oral history projects, from recording and transcribing to indexing and sharing, allows researchers to focus on the interpretive aspects of their work.TheirStory simplifies the technical challenges associated with oral history research but also enriches the scholarly endeavor, encouraging innovative approaches and contributing to the advancement of knowledge across various academic disciplines.
Beyond its practical applications, TheirStory enhances the quality of academic research by enabling scholars to engage deeply with their subjects, uncovering nuances and insights that might otherwise be overlooked. The platform's ability to handle multiple aspects of oral history projects—from recording and transcribing to indexing and sharing—allows researchers to focus on the interpretive aspects of their work. As a result, TheirStory not only simplifies the technical challenges associated with oral history research but also enriches the scholarly endeavor, encouraging innovative approaches and contributing to the advancement of knowledge across various academic disciplines.
Capturing the stories of your alumni can be a boon for your organization’s marketing efforts. Sharing stories is a powerful way to increase engagement.
Organizations can use TheirStory to easily organize community programming - whether you're looking to showcase a certain local area, cultural significance, or get the community more involved, TheirStory has the tools to engage and connect.
Engage your community to capture their stories and connect the organization, the history, and the people.
TheirStory acts as a content management system for your audiovisual content by giving you control over the organization of your masses of data, and then having everything searchable so you can find the relevant information quickly and easily.
TheirStory can be used to capture and organize compelling stories that are vital for marketing and fundraising for your institution. With all your media transcribed and indexed, search through your entire collection for key words, moments, events, and people. Easily find the moments you're looking for.
Show your organization’s value by creating compelling stories about the impact of your organization
Archives and Special Collections have been using the TheirStory platform to help them manage large existing collections of audiovisual material in multiple formats and locations that requires one platform to manage it all.
Libraries are increasingly using oral history and community storytelling programs to connect with and add value to the communities they serve. TheirStory simplifies the technical challenges of running an oral history program by giving organizations an intuitive and thoughtful platform that has a solution for every part of the oral history process.
Engage your community to capture their stories and connect the organization, the history, and the people.
Engaging the community allows organizations to showcase their collected stories and their impact on the communities they are in. These formats can be used to illustrate the organization’s impact in a compelling way, making a strong case for budgetary planning.
Show your organization’s value by creating compelling stories about the impact of your organization.
Whether you're a small archive, a large-scale library system, or anything in between, TheirStory can help streamline your workflow.
One platform with all of the tools you need to make meaning from your media.
