Seminar: Create Family Videos with AI and PowerPoint (thru June 12)

Various Bay Area libraries will be hosting a FREE seminar on the subject of Create Family Videos with AI and PowerPoint.

Location/Date/Time

• Pacifica Sharp Park Library, 104 Hilton Way, Pacifica, CA, March 1, Sunday, 12 – 2 PM
• Atherton Library, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Ln, Atherton, CA, March 5, Thursday, 1 – 3 PM
• Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont, CA, April 24, Friday, 11 AM – 1 PM
• Foster City Library, 1000 E Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City, CA, June 7, Sunday, 1 – 3 PM
• San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, June 12, Friday, 12 – 2 PM

Seminar Highlights

• Use AI and ChatGPT to craft narration for family stories
• Design PowerPoint slides for storytelling with AI assistance
• Turn your stories into narrated family history videos
• Learn the full filmmaking process: story → slides → video
• Familiarity with PowerPoint is useful

Session Abstract

Everyone has a story worth remembering. In this engaging multimedia lecture, Create Family Videos with AI and PowerPoint, you’ll learn how AI tools like ChatGPT can help turn cherished memories into beautifully narrated family history videos. Discover how AI can assist with writing narration, designing slides, and blending voice, images, and music to bring your story to life. Perfect for anyone who wants to preserve family stories for future generations. A basic familiarity with PowerPoint is suggested, but imagination and heart are the keys to creating lasting, meaningful stories.

About The Speaker: Ron Chan

Ron is a seasoned lecturer on family history documentation best practices, captivating audiences worldwide at genealogy workshops and libraries across the San Francisco Bay Area. As a published genealogy author, he has a passion for storytelling and teaches innovative technologies to bring ancestral tales to life. Ron is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, dedicated to preserving ancestral stories. He is also a co-founder of the Chinese American GI Project, ensuring that veterans’ legacies are not lost, forgotten, or ignored. As a CHCP Advisory Board Member, Ron is a contributor to CHCP's Oral History Project. Ron shares with you how to capture and share family struggles of the past so future generations can embrace, remember, and learn from those who came before.