Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 2)

[millymcb]

Could try it on a scavenger hunt - But by the time you have entered all the information I would imagine some genius Rootschatter would have solved the mystery and be onto the next one

Milly

[jaywit]

Surely much of this gobbledygook could be just boiled down to the two words I use -  lateral thinking.

This covers all the FAN thinking wildcards etc. etc.

[california dreamin]

Yes, I agree.

[Rainbow Quartz]

Me too! Just up to the mind mapping and FAN stuff now, and after a quick look, I think that I already do something like this, but perhaps not quite as structured, and I didn't know it had a fancy name
(or a program that does it for you!) I scribble stuff down on a big piece of paper and see who might fit where, I thought it was just common sense My problem is that I now have too many bits of paper

[smudwhisk]

Surely much of this gobbledygook could be just boiled down to the two words I use -  lateral thinking.

This covers all the FAN thinking wildcards etc. etc.

That's what I was thinking too.   They seemed to be trying to overcomplicate something that could have been far more easily explained.

[jaywit]

Surely much of this gobbledygook could be just boiled down to the two words I use -  lateral thinking.

This covers all the FAN thinking wildcards etc. etc.

That's what I was thinking too.   They seemed to be trying to overcomplicate something that could have been far more easily explained.

My thoughts are they are justifying their existence, and salary.

[smudwhisk]

You may be right jaywit.  The problem is I don't think the course will encourage many to want to pay the high fees to do anything else from the university in this field, unless of course it improves considerably.

Came across this interesting review blog post on Wk1 - http://www.rootschat.com/links/01hb2/.

Tend to agree with it.  I had my doubts about the course to begin with, appeared to be trying to cater for too wide a range of researchers in such a short time period, and so far unfortunately that's the impression I'm getting.  So far it appears to be trying to appeal to beginners, but not doing a particularly good job at it.   And I agree with all the comments about video presentation, its not been particularly good.

[Gillg]

I'm trying to look at this course from the perspective of complete beginners and wonder if it is designed to be more helpful to them than to those of us who have been working at our research for some time and who have worked at this in our own way, sometimes efficiently and sometimes not.

I'm still keeping an open mind and am looking at Mocavo for the first time. It's interesting, but I'm not sure how helpful it will be.

[KGarrad]

I had a subscription to Mocavo for a while.

I did find some interesting snippets, but it's heavily US-based.