Weekly Education Roundup: DITA and Digital Rhetoric
Spring has sprung with brand new STC education! Make the most of your membership by beefing up your education report card.
Spring has sprung with brand new STC education! Make the most of your membership by beefing up your education report card.
The Instructional Design and Learning SIG is hosting a new webinar on using storytelling, emotion, and analytics to improve instructional material and increase learning retention. Hosted by Allie Proff, Remembering Forward: Using Emotion and Storytelling to Increase Learning Retention takes place on 16 Read more
Technical communication often intersects and informs Web design and Web applications. While generally not expected to spearhead Web design for their clients and companies, technical communicators can take on key roles in the planning and implementation of online content, and therefore need to have an understanding of the principles and process of developing Web content.
The 2018 membership season is now open, marking the beginning of the Society for Technical Communication’s (STC’s) 66th Anniversary celebration! It’s time to renew or join today and take advantage of all that’s new with STC.
Have you been considering presenting at STC’s Technical Communication Summit? If so, the Call for Proposals for the 65th STC Summit is now open! The Summit fosters industry-leading technical communication by stimulating information exchange, cultivating research, and serving as the primary source of education for professional technical communicators.
This is one in a series of posts highlighting the activities and contributions of STC’s communities. If you belong to a community and have important news or a key event to share, please email James Cameron at james.cameron@stc.org. The Community Read more
What does it mean to produce video documentation, anyway? What makes it effective? There are a number of tools, methods, and production techniques that make up the answer to that question. Get started on the answers with STC’s multiweek online course Producing Effective Video Documentation, presented by Matt Sullivan every Tuesday for six weeks, starting on 5 August, from 7:00-8:00 PM EDT (GMT-4).
Two separate editions of the STC online course TechComm 101 start next week: One scheduled for 10:30 AM-Noon EST (GMT-5) every Thursday for seven weeks, and another timed for our global members, especially those in Asia and the Pacific, and Read more
Leah Guren is the presenter of the highly popular TechComm 101 online course (as well as guest editor for the November/December Intercom, which is open to the public with a theme of TechComm 101). Starting on 9 January she’s teaching Read more
Association News magazine highlighted STC’s education offerings in its November 2013 issue, showcasing our “incredible e-learning system” in a column about tailoring member services to increase engagement. The author singled out not only STC Executive Director Chris Lyons and Director Read more