I Didn’t Know You Could Do That with Free Web Tools
Posted by: ellenward on: May 9, 2007
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Alan Levine is trying to demonstrate some lesser known things that you can do with common web tools or some specialized web tools that do things that would perhaps spark the interest of an educator.
Newbie’s Guide to Flickr
Posted by: ellenward on: May 9, 2007
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Flickr is a popular photo-sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other’s photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime.
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9703620-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware
What Can We Do With Flickr?
This picture of a cluttered desk represents just a small set of powerful ways you can use flickr. This image has been annotated with “notes” when you view it at Flickr, so as you move a mouse over hotspot areas, pop-up messages will appear, some of them with links that can take you elsewhere.
http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980/
Other flickr Resources
- How to Flickr Intro by Ben Bishop http://www.benbishop.me.uk/software/how-to-flickr-into/
- Tips for Flickr Beginners (Lifehacker) http://www.lifehacker.com/software/digital-photos/tips-for-flickr-beginners-031935.php
- Flickr Tutorial Series (Indezine) http://www.indezine.com/mediamazine/2006/05/flickr-tutorials-series.html
- Flickr Advanced User Guide (Lifehacker) http://www.lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-flickr-advanced-user-guide-154849.php
- Flickr technique (flickr discussion group) http://www.flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/12082/
- Flickr is the Web Photo Tool Preferred by Superheroes and Librarians (Connie Corsby)
- Discover Flickr (PLCMC Learning 2.0)
Delicious “How-to” Handout
Posted by: ellenward on: May 9, 2007
“Technology without Tears” Web 2.0 workshops
Posted by: ellenward on: May 9, 2007
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You, Too, Can Use Video in Your PowerPoint Presentation
Posted by: ellenward on: May 8, 2007
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Combine all the components of your presentation into a single package. If the video is actually included in your PowerPoint presentation and stored on your laptop, that’s one whole source of delay and fumbling eliminated. You simply press the Enter (or other) key on your keyboard and the video plays.
Currently reading…
Posted by: ellenward on: May 4, 2007
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I’m reading “Dirty Blonde” by Lisa Scottoline. Judge Cate Fante becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigation of a high-profile producer, whose case she dismissed. I really enjoyed the book – light read but kept my attention. Maybe I can get another one of her books for the weekend…
IT Professionals and Librarians video
Posted by: ellenward on: April 29, 2007
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iACPL 3.0 IT Professionals & Librarians
IT Professionals and Librarians video 2
Posted by: ellenward on: April 29, 2007
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iACPL2.0: IT Professionals & Librarians
I have family living in Scotland
Posted by: ellenward on: March 25, 2007
My mom remarried a couple of years ago and moved just outside of Dundee to live with her husband. I love Scotland. Its beautiful and so different than the states. I have ancestors who are from Scotland so maybe its in my blood! My husband and I are taking a two week vacation in September to London, Paris, and then for a week in Scotland visiting my mom and our family. My husband hasn’t been there before so I am looking forward to showing him some of the great places I visited last time. I think I also want to visit a couple of new places (for me) like further north. I’m sure mom and Bob will have some good ideas.
Returning from the FGS conference
Posted by: ellenward on: September 4, 2006
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The FGS Conference was great. I learned a lot and met a lot of very nice people. It also helped me move on from a rather casual pursuit of genealogical information to a much more organized one.
Some of the things I want to follow-up on are:
- Search for Amy MacEwan’s birth information in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
- Commital records are done in county court even if the patient records are sealed. Check for Amy’s commital records in Cook County, Illinois court records.
- Plat the deeds for Ward family in Cecil County. I may have to go to the Maryland Archives to get copies of the deeds and patents which are not available online.
- Sorting John Wards
- Organizing Evidence to Overcome Record Shortages
- Conduct an exhaustive search
- Correlate the Findings
- Establish Identities
- Group identities into generations
- propose relationships
- Use the genealogical proof standard to justify your conclusion
- Organizing Evidence to Overcome Record Shortages
- Start a genealogy blog or wiki for my cecil county research and/or all of my genealogy research.
- Make sure my data is genea-logical.
- Follow research standards.
- Get a copy of the BCG Standards Manual and use it.
- Perform big-picture research – expand my search area.
- Follow the paper trail to the original source.
- Photographs
- Store my photos safely.
- Get old photos out of the magnetic albums
- Use encapsulation for sensitive photos, etc.
- Label the photos.
- Ask Aunt Sheil for old MacEwan photos to scan.
- Try to find out more about the tin-type photos I have. Maureen Taylor thought one was from the 1880s and the other from about 1900.
- Look at the photographer information on the photo and research the photographer to see when they were in business and where their business was located.
- With genealogical research:
- narrow down the possibilities – who’s in the picture
- date and place and setting
- add up the facts
- Maureen Taylor’s new book is “Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs”
- Store my photos safely.
- Becoming an Accredited Genealogist
- report writing is essential
- use a research log
- Writing the Report
- Heading
- Research objective
- The written text
- Summary
- Recommendations for Future Research
- Elizabeth Shown Mills ‘ book on becoming a certified genealogist
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