The Bear in a Window project captures Australian children’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focused on children’s experiences of lockdown, or extended periods of home confinement, ranging from one to 100 days at a time between 2020 and 2021. Using the online experimental platform, Gorilla, we invited children aged 3–12 to record themselves telling stories about the positives and negatives of life in lockdown to our mascot, Covey Bear. Recordings were saved on the Gorilla server and orthographically and automatically transcribed using Sonix, with manual correction. Preliminary analyses of 18 children’s recordings illustrate several emergent topics, reflecting children’s experiences of the pandemic in the areas of health and wellbeing; education and online learning; digital engagement; family and friends; relationships; and mealtimes and food. We found that in their storytelling, children engaged in a wide variety of discourse strategies to hold the floor, indicate focus, and transition to different topics. The project will contribute to a national public collection of Australian children’s COVID-19 stories and create a digital repository of Australian children’s talk that will be available to researchers across different disciplines.

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窗外的熊：收集澳大利亚儿童关于 COVID-19 大流行的故事

“窗中熊”项目记录了澳大利亚儿童在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情中的经历。我们重点关注 2020 年至 2021 年间儿童的封锁经历，即长期居家隔离的经历，每次 1 天到 100 天不等。我们利用在线实验平台 Gorilla，邀请 3 至 12 岁的儿童录制自己讲述的故事我们的吉祥物科维熊在封锁期间生活的积极和消极。录音保存在 Gorilla 服务器上，并使用 Sonix 进行拼写和自动转录，并进行手动校正。对 18 名儿童录音的初步分析说明了几个新兴主题，反映了儿童在健康和福祉方面的流行病经历；教育和在线学习；数字化参与；亲朋好友; 关系；以及进餐时间和食物。我们发现，在讲故事时，孩子们采用了各种各样的话语策略来控制发言权、表明焦点以及过渡到不同的主题。该项目将为澳大利亚儿童 COVID-19 故事的全国公共收藏做出贡献，并创建澳大利亚儿童谈话的数字存储库，供不同学科的研究人员使用。