Our Elders,Our Stories
Ask. Listen. Write. Publish.
Let their words
become a story.
Choose a journal question, ask an Elder, and listen as the story unfolds.
With permission, record their voice. On a supported browser, live transcription can help show the words as they speak. Review the words together, then copy them into your journal and prepare the approved story for your special book.
Capture an Elder’s story
Live transcription may send speech to the browser provider’s recognition service. Use it only with the Elder’s permission and your school’s approval. Audio-only recording avoids this page’s speech-recognition service.
This page does not send a story to a teacher or store it in a project room. Text and audio remain in the current page session; save them before leaving. Downloads remain on your device.
Choose a recording method and confirm permission, or type the story.
On a shared device, save only to an approved location and clear this page when finished. Refreshing or closing the page loses unsaved work. Downloaded files must be managed separately.
From spoken words to a special book
The Elder tells the story.
The child helps preserve it.
Live transcription is a starting point, not a finished chapter. Keep the Elder’s meaning and voice, review the text with them, and get their approval before the story is included in the book.