Many Jamboree planning posts are on the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree Blog - check it out for information.
I downloaded the SCGS2012 Jamboree app for my iPhone last week, and made my picks for the class sessions that I might attend. Then I realized, today, that I had not received a link to the Syllabus. I knew that, being an Early Bird registrant, that I would receive a CDROM and a printed syllabus when I picked up my registration materials.
The SCGS2012 Jamboree app has access to the syllabus articles also. A user can either download a syllabus article to read on their mobile device, or can send a link to a PDF to their email address. Since it's hard to read PDFs on my iPhone, I chose to send some links to myself via email, then collect them and read them over the next week so that I'm "ready" to attend the sessions.
When I clicked on the "Syllabi" icon, I received a list of the available syllabus articles (note that not all are on the list):
I clicked on one of the items on the list, and had to choose between "Download" and "Email":
If I download the item, then I can read it on my screen, but apparently it is not saved anywhere (that I've found...). It can be read with a lot of scrolling:
If I chose to Email it to myself, I can tap in my email address and a link to the syllabus article will be sent to me.
After clicking the links and reading the articles, I saved them to my hard drive and will print some of them out next week before we go to the Genealogy Jamboree.
I may read the article on my iPhone while in the session if the wi-fi coverage, or cell phone coverage, is good enough.
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/06/getting-ready-for-scgs-genealogy.html
Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
2 comments:
Randy, great job on introducing folks to some of the features of the App. I couldn't have done better! Are you going to continue the lesson?
I didn't know they had an app. Thanks for the info.
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