Thursday, February 10, 2011

Have you watched the RootsTech Live Videos yet?

One of the features of the RootsTech Conference currently underway in Salt Lake City is the use of streaming video to show some of the presentations, at http://rootstech.familysearch.org/video.php

I missed the opening sessions this morning, but I watched almost all of Barry Ewell's presentation this afternoon on Digitally Preserving Your Family Heritage.  He took the audience through all media types and converting all types of media to digital content. 

Here are some screenshots from the presentation:




The camera switched back and forth from the shot of Barry speaking and the slides, and the video was crystal clear, even at full screen. 

I magnified my screen image to 150% for the above screenshots.

Barry offered to send a PDF of his handout to those interested - the email address is on the last screenshot above!

On Friday, these presentations will be on streaming video (all times Mountain Standard, subtract one hour for Pacific, add one hour for Central, or two hours for Eastern):

*  8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. :  The Changing Face of Genealogy – Curt Witcher
Personal Archiving and Primary Documents –
Brewster Kahle


* 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. : Cloud Computing: What It Is and How It Has Been used – Brian Pugh 

*  3:00 p.m. to  4:00 p.m. : The Power of PDF: Tools for Every Genealogist – Josh Taylor

On Friday, these presentations will be on streaming video (all times Mountain Standard, subtract one hour for Pacific, add one hour for Central, or two hours for Eastern):

*  8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. : Personal Archiving and Primary Documents – Brewster Kahle

*  1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. : Virtual Presentations Roundtable – Thomas MacEntee

I hope that these videos will be available after the conference for viewing - perhaps they will be added to the Online courses on the Learn tab of http://www.familysearch.org/.

Yes, I have a major case of geneablogger envy, seeing and hearing about all of the neat opportunities for networking, learning and participating in this conference. 

2 comments:

Lynn Palermo said...

I watched both live sessions today and tweeted with people who were in room at the conference. Very cool!

JL said...

I almost made it. Forgot about the time change, and/or they didn't post it. I caught the last 15 minutes. What a talker! and obviously knows his stuff.