New course – Place, Image, Object

As many of my readers know, I am doing some units in the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania. I have completed two so far and passed both but they were about things I already knew – introduction to family history and convict ancestors.

This third course is a little out of my comfort zone.

But I am going to persevere. There are three assessment tasks:

Place – looking at place within our family history – might be a region, town, room or even a place like a church or desk. I have decided to look at family homes as we have only ever lived in Hobart and its suburbs. I am looking through my photos to find images of the houses and will annotate the map with remembrances including sounds, smells and feelings. Think I will use a technology tool to show my assessment – probably Thinglink. I am certainly not an arty/crafty type person who could make something to represent place.

Image – the assessment for this is a quiz where we have seven multiple choice questions about images – dating them, types of images etc but then we also have to use a quiz lockdown program to actually write responses for 3 more questions for dating images we are given. This is something new and causing concern to many students. I will do the quiz next week as there is still more information on images in the content next week. We can use notes for the quiz but if they are typed up on the internet – eg on my blog as a post, we will be locked out of them.

Object – Still not sure what I will use to write a biography of an object. Maybe the whale teeth scrimshaw from my Uncle Harry – dad’s foster father – or maybe a brooch my mum has that was from her older sister who died around the time of mum’s birth in the 1930’s. But I also have some vases and dishes with the orangey coloured grapevine pattern that I could research or some plates that were given to me by my grandmother on dad’s side of the family.

Readers: Have you decided yet what to use for place and object assessments?