Monday, July 11, 2016

This is the first of three days of training in which the set of participants taking on certain roles receive training.  These roles include the six group leaders, the six scribes, the logistics manager, the record keeper, and the glossers.  One of the main leaders of the workshop, either the coordinator or the consultant (Kevin) begins with an introduction on the value and purpose of a dictionary, then the consultant goes on to describe the various roles.  The whole process of word collection involves the six groups who are given topics to focus on, noting down all the related words they can think of for each of those topics, one at a time. The groups will try to limit the amount of time on each topic, then give that folder to the record keeper to count and record the amount of words collected on computer.  Then the record keeper gives the folder to the glossers who will put the one-word definition of the word in the language of wider communication.

Anita Warfel