[Web4lib] Significant Computer Educational Information: MIT & BYU

[Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr.]

Significant Computer Educational Information:
MIT & BYU

I recently wrote an item concerning:
BYU's 10th Annual Computerized Family History and Genealogy Conference
will teach the community to integrate computers and genealogy.
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63268

I will further note a few additional resources
of interest.  First: Schools - Colleges -
Universities: Alumni and Genealogy Education
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/schoolscollegesuniversities.htm
This site has a sub section:
Online Education & Resources
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/schoolscollegesuniversities.htm#Online

At the top of this sub section is the following
significant information for all on this list:
OpenCourseWare Consortium:
Opencourseware Projects Worldwide
Collaboration of more than 100 higher education
institutions and associated organizations from
around the world creating a broad and deep body
of open educational content, to advance education
and empower people worldwide.

MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OpenCourseWare: Free educational resource (OER)
for educators, students and self-learners worldwide.
MIT, involved in computer science, physics and
mathematics, will provide approximately 1,800
courses free on the Internet, by the end of A.D. 2007.

Second: Archives and Knowledge Management -
Scholarly Online Resource Evidence and Records
for use by Genealogists and Family Historians
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/archives.htm

Site sub section: Community, Maps & Geography
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/archives.htm#Community
Beginning with Administrative Division: List of
Country Subdivisions and Table of Administrative
Country Subdivisions by Country; also continuing
with local resources, the world is covered within
the scope of a few clicks on the computer keyboard.

REFERENCE:
BYU's 10th Annual Computerized Family History and Genealogy Conference
will teach the community to integrate computers and genealogy.
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63268

I would suggest a review of the Family Genealogy & History Internet
Education Directory.  It has the Computer - Internet - Software:
Genealogy Programs Support resources for the experienced computer
user, genealogist, family historian, or Newbie just beginning to
learn about the Internet.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/computerinternetsoftware.htm

This is a noted professional worldwide humanities and social sciences
mega portal, connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets, with
billions of primary or secondary database family history and genealogy
records.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm

It encompasses all other key worldwide genealogy sites.  It includes
all pertinent genealogy-related web pages from scholarly societies,
professional society organizations and informational Wikipedia
entries.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/

REFERENCE: One example, from Education Publications and Online Books,
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/bookspublicationsgenealogical.htm#Edpub
by Princeton Public Library, lists United States Digital Libraries
online.
http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/research/links/genealogy-digital.html
Another example, shows the new creation of the World Digital Library.
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/

Genealogy Webmaster - Webmasters Homepage Construction
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/genealogywebmasters.htm#construction
has Social Networks Resources, linked directly to Communities
& Chat Directories.  These resources include the very new Ning,
that allows individuals to create, customize, and share new
Social Networks for free, in seconds.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/whocanfindpeople.htm#Chat

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America,
Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
Family Genealogy & History
Internet Education Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/