Learning library & live tutorials (personal track)

Welcome to the learning library
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- How to use the learning library
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- Membership walkthrough - orientation
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- Payment portal to manage your subscription, credit card, etc.
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- Reset your password
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- Getting Started checklist & FAQs - download
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- Success Pathway - themes and advanced topics 2022-2023
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Membership class replays
118 Lessons
- When YOU should write it 2021-03-05 tutorial
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- How to digitize large quantities of photos and mixed media fast – digitize pics and documents with a light box – ShotBox - 2021-03-11 Tutorial
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- Easy video stories your family will love -2021-03-18
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- Tutorial on the value of doing a read-aloud session. Also, a conversation with Rob Gentile on suicide as it came up related to his near-death experience -2021-03-25
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- Tutorial on the editing process -2021-04-01
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- Choosing the right point of view (POV) and tense for your writing project -2021-04-08
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- Curate your canon of personal and business stories -2021-04-22
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- Writing strong characters - tutorial-2021-05-06
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- Setting a scene with sensory details and dialogue -2021-05-15
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- Story structure example – the Sound of Music-2021-05-21
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- Organizing large interview or writing projects -2021-05-27
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- What are your superpowers? How do your strengths relate to the theme of your story? -2021-06-10
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- Rachel Trotter tutorial – Involving youth in oral history-2021-06-30
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- Journaling - how to start and maintain a journal writing habit-2021-07-08
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- How to research and tell the stories of homes, buildings and places (Finding the story of your home, or places of your ancestors) -2021-07-15
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- Writing ancestor stories -2021-07-22
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- How to write an autobiography - a primer of the process from start to finish-2021-07-29
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- Beautiful interior book layouts-2021-08-05
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- Case study on large history/writing projects-2021-08-12
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- How to record calls and other equipment hacks- 2021-08-19 2021-
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- Writing groups - the power of writing groups and how to put together an effective writing group- 2021-08-26
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- Overcoming procrastination and resistance in your creative work -2021-09-02
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- Remembering someone who has passed and storytelling at the end of life - 2021-09-23
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- Inspiration and clearing the mind -2021-09-30
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- Sensory details: describing people & setting-2021-11-18
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- Finding the angle -2021-12-02
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- Editing -2021-12-09
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- Capturing stories during holidays -2021-12-16
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- Student readings -2022-01-06
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- Case study - Kerry Slattery's family history story 2022-01-13
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- Making storybooks for your family using Shutterfly -2021-10-07
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- Ancestor stories - practical tips -2022-01-27
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- Ancestor story case study Story structure for the Ephraim Granary Video-2022-02-03
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- Preparing to write -2022-02-10
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- Procrastination & habits -2022-02-18
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- Procrastination & Habits Diagnostic Tool - Download the file
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- Grief and storytelling - 2022-02-24
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- Writing about war & hardship -2022-03-10
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- What if it did not end well? Writing stories where you do not see transformation - 2022-03-17
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- Vacations & The Power of Place -2022-03-31
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- History in Your History -2022-03-24
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- Oral history - apps, recorders, and microphones -2022-04-07
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- Interviewing - Great questions to ask and other insights from Rachel -2022-04-14
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- Transcribing resources -2022-04-21
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- Interviewing wrap up - end of life, family reunions and more -2022-04-28
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- Publishing with Everett O'Keefe of Ignite Press -2022-05-05
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- Family Reunions the Perfect Place to Capture a Story -2022-05-12 -
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- Digitize for Making a Video -2022-05-19
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- Enlisting the help of young people -2022-06-02
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- Writing about Home and Country -2022-06-09
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- Writing about Fathers -2022-6-16
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- Writing Rite of Passage and Coming of Age Stories -2022-6-23
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- Narrate video in your own voice - tips, tech, and a pep talk -2022-06-29
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- Open lab/Q&A session -2022-07-07
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- Tips from Stephen King's "On Writing" -2022-07-14 14
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- Immigration & Ancestor Stories -2022-7-21
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- Intuition and Your Decision-Making Process -2022-7-28
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- Descriptive Writing -2022-8-4
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- Timeline Techniques 2022-8-11
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- Editing audio -2022-08-18
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- Types of Editing -2022-8-25
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- Student Show & Tell -2022-09-01
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- Stories of buildings and places -2022-09-08
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- Stories at End of Life Times -2022-09-15
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- Business Meeting -2022-9-22
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- Shifting to Work on Your Own Story -2022-9-29
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- Verbal storytelling - onstage or informally -2022-10-06
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- Christmas Project Challenge -2022-10-13
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- Writing Groups - Advanced Seminar
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- Checklist for any Story - 2022-10-27
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2022-11-3
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- Organizing Large Projects - Advanced Seminar
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- Group Coaching & Q&A 2022-12-1
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- Using Canva - Advanced Seminar 2022-12-15
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2023-1-5
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- Finding Answers to Hard Questions 2023-1-19
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2023-2-2
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- Youth and Storytelling 2023-2-16
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2023-3-9
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- Photo reminiscence therapy
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2023-4-6
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- Writing Prompt & Work Session 2023-4-13
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023-4-13
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- Family Reunions 2023-4-20
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023-4-27
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023-4-27
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2023-5-4
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023.5.11
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023-5-11
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- Advanced Writing Skills 2023-05-18
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023.5.25
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023.5.25
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- Group Coaching and Q&A 2023-6-1
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- Writing Prompt and work session 2023.6.8
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023.6.8
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- Advanced Writing Skills 2023-6-15
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- Storyboarding & story structure using Toy Story I - theme and purpose 2023-06-15
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023.6.22
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023.6.22
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023.6.29
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023.6.29
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- Group coaching/Q&A 2023-07-06
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023.7.13
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023.7.13
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- Writing Your Feelings 2023.7.20
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023.7.27
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023.7.27
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- Group Coaching/Q&A 2023.8.3
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- Writing prompt 2023-08-10
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- Advanced Writing Skills 2023-8-17
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- Writing Prompt 2023-8-23
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- Writing Prompt Text
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- Writing prompt 2023-08-31
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- Writing prompt text
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- Group coaching - timelines and layout
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- Advanced Seminar - Writer's Block
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- Writing Prompt and Work Session 2023-9-28
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- Writing Prompt Text 2023-9-28
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Templates, printables & flip books
14 Lessons
- Storyboard template
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- How to storyboard - full color booklet
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- Steven King's writing tips
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- Questions everyone should ask
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- 5 memory prompts and the psychology of why they matter (flip book)
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- Biographical questions to ask your subject
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- Dinner table conversations
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- Relationship questions
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- Interviewing mini course tutorial - easy steps to an oral history
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- Oral history checklist for families
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- Professional interviewing checklist
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- Writing the hard stuff - a flip book
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- Grappling checklist
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- Formatting your book in MS Word - a template
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Learning library & live tutorials (personal track)

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Templates, printables & flip books