SLIG - Computers and Technology

Barbara Renick and Debby Horton will guide students in navigating the vast tools and tricks available to researchers through the newest technologies. They will cover improving the use of your current technology, as well as new technologies including wikis, blogs, social networks, on-line trees and library catalogs. The course will provide five hands-on labs working with course coordinators in the Family History Library computer lab. Laptops are very useful in this course, but not required.

Topics to be covered include:

Using Your Computer as a Research Tool

Intro to Blogs, Wikis, and Social Networking

Browser Wars & Add-ins

Web Surfing Made Easier - LAB

Gotta Give to Get

Ask & Ye Shall Receive

Secrets of PDF Files

Make a Blog - LAB

Is Your Family Tree Endangered?

Publish or Perish the Thought

Do Your Library Thing

Make a Wiki - LAB

Making a List and Checking It Twice

Sync or Swim

Has It Been Done Before?

Eleven Layers - LAB

Traveling with Technology

Are You Hearing Voices from the Past?

A New Era in Genealogy (The 5 C's for Success in Genealogy Today)

Online: How You Get There Does Make a Difference - LAB

Room is still available, register at www.infouga.org today!