MOSI Chat

Before the chat with Jamie we had done some activities so that we could be prepared for the conversation. For one, we made some questions we would like to ask him. This questions ranged from the hours of work of the mills to the dangers they might face. We also went on to their website, but we also saw an video of Jamie before the actually chat. Vocab was also learned so that we could understand the 'lingo' surrounding the cotton mills.

The chat with Jamie was very interesting. I never would have thought just how dangerous it was for people to clean and to work with the machines. The picture below is a shuttle, it would shoot fibers across the loom. This could malfunction and shoot out and potentially kill a worker. While cleaning some of the machines girls and children could be scalped if their hair got caught and they could get seriously injured by the moving parts of the machines. By seeing Jamie talk about the machines helped me to understand his job as the curator. I knew that he had to understand a lot about the topic he is talking about, but I never really realized the amount of dates and information he had to his memory. He knew everything about each machine he talked about to the year it was made to who made it. For families the looms were a way of getting income, but I felt that they relied to heavily on it. I think that there was probably another way they could have received money other than for making cloth. This made the loom both a positive and a negative for me because it both helped and hurt families.

I feel that I learned more from a outside expert. I think this because by talking to an outside expert it gave me another perspective to look from which can make it easier to understand the information. I didn't really dislike anything from the chat beside the quality of the chat, because if there was another way to have voice chats that were not as staggered that would the chat so much better. I would definitely want it to do it again with other experts for other topics.