Are you passionate about learning? Because I am passionate about teaching!
I am available for lectures, workshops, guest lectures, webinars, conferences, and retreats. Email me at colleen.e.greene@gmail.com to discuss availability and rates.
Don’t see what you are looking for? I am happy to discuss customizing a lecture or workshop to fit your specific needs. Email me at colleen.e.greene@gmail.com.
Interested in attending one of my classes? Visit my Speaking & Teaching Schedule.
Genealogy
Lectures
Hispanic Research Lectures
- The American Southwest: Digitized Collections & Archival Finding Aids
- Social History: Painting a Bigger Picture of Your Hispanic Ancestors’ Lives
- Colonial Spanish American Collections (available as of June 2019)
- The Lives of Your Hispanic American Ancestors (available as of June 2019)
- Hispanic American Digitized Collections & Archival Finding Aids
- An Introduction to Researching Your Mexican Ancestors
- An Introduction to Researching Hispanic Ancestry
- The Suspect Centenarian: Using a Common U.S. Source to Build Out an Immigrant Life Story
- Working with Mexican Church & Civil Registration Records
Tech & Social Media Lectures
- Cloud Computing for Genealogy: Applications, Strategies, and Workflows
- Evernote for Genealogy Research
- Facebook for Genealogy
- Genealogy Inclusion: Creating Accessible Content for Your Readers, Researchers, Patrons, Clients, and Students (available as of February 2019)
- An Overview of Cloud Computing for Genealogy
- Search Engine Optimization to Increase Traffic to Your Genealogy Website or Blog (available as of June 2018)
- Using Snagit for Family History Research and Publishing (available as of June 2019)
DNA Lectures
- A Crash Course in Using DNA to Discover Your Ancestry
- Using DNA for to Discover Ancestral Origins & Solve Historical Mysteries (debuting October 2018)
- Who, What, Why, Where, and How: Using DNA for Family History Research (debuting October 2018)
Methodology Lectures
- Improve Your Research by Applying the Genealogical Proof Standard (available as of September 2018)
- The Suspect Centenarian: Using a Common U.S. Source to Build Out an Immigrant Life Story
General Lectures
- The Academic Library: An Untapped Resource for Family History Research (available as of July 2019)
- The American Southwest: Digitized Collections & Archival Finding Aids
- Golden State Ancestors: Calisphere, the Online Archive of California, and the California Digital Newspaper Collection
- An Introduction to Researching African American Family History
- JSTOR: An Academic Powerhouse for Family History Research (available as of July 2019)
- Utilizing the Digital Public Library of America & the HathiTrust for Family History Research
Interactive Workshops
- Creating Family History Videos for Free with Adobe Spark (available as of January 2019)
- Hands-On Strategies for Finding and Analyzing Mexican Church & Civil Registration Records (available as of May 2019)
- Working with Your DNA Results: A Walkthrough of the Main Testing Companies (debuting April 2019)
Online Courses
- A Seminar in U.S. Genealogy and Genealogy Librarianship
(semester-long, 10 or 16 week format)
Libraries, Archives & Museums
Workshops
- Using Omeka for Digitized Collections, Digital Exhibits, and Digital History Projects
Online Courses
- A Crash Course in U.S. Genealogy for Librarians (multi-week)
- A Seminar in U.S. Genealogy and Genealogy Librarianship (semester)
History, Chicano Studies & Latin American Studies, African American Studies, American Studies
Many of my lectures can be customized as guest lectures or workshops for your college courses. I am happy to map these to your assignment or course learning outcomes.
Teaching Formats
Instructional lectures are one-hour in length, including 15 minutes of Q&A time, and can be delivered with our without internet access.
Interactive workshops can be tailored between two-to-three-hours in length, with plenty of time for your staff, society, class, or conference attendees to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. A strong reliable internet connection may be required.
Online courses can be delivered via the learning management system of your choice. My courses include: written and video lectures, weekly discussions, weekly activities and graded assessments for each set of lessons, and 1-3 major graded assignments mapped to your programs’s core competencies.