This four-week course will provide students with an overview of the syntax, methods, and commonly used tools in developing XML documents and integrating basic stylesheets. The course will also introduce students to readings, resources, and tools available to help develop basic XML coding skills through individual practice.
The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the wide range of skills, methods, and techniques used basic content markup... Details When: August 7–24, 2024
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This course will introduce you to the basics of markup with HTML and scripting with CSS. It will cover coding strategies, working with text editors, and the basics of publishing hand-coded content. You will learn how to build tables and forms using HTML, developing stylesheets and layouts with CSS, and strategies for integrating HTML and CSS in managing and publishing professional Web content.
When: July 10–31, 2024
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You have created great content, but can the users find it in the growing collection of varied content at your organization? Tagging can help, but are the tags good enough? Tags need to be based on a controlled vocabulary to provide consistency for comprehensive retrieval. Controlled vocabularies can be organized into taxonomies, as faceted terms sets or hierarchies, to guide users. This 3-session workshop teaches the principles of good taxonomy design.... Details When: June 11–25, 2024
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This asynchronous 6-week course presents more advanced concepts to TC practitioners who may still be within their first three years in the profession. It covers topics that are beyond the scope of TechComm Fundamentals Bootcamp, and is particularly useful for people who have completed the Bootcamp course. This course covers the following topics to help you enrich and develop your TC career: managing projects, glossaries and teferences, advanced deliverables (white papers, application ... Details When: June 10 – July 22, 2024
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This four-week introductory course provides an overview of the processes involved in developing instructional content for professional settings, including an overview of learning theories and styles, developing learning sequences, the major types of learning activities, asynchronous and synchronous instructional strategies, and methods of assessment and evaluation. The course will also cover important instructional design concepts, including developing instructional architectures,... Details When: June 3–24, 2024
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Technical communication is an exciting and challenging career that offers unlimited opportunity for professional development. But to succeed, it's not enough to learn a desktop publishing or Help authoring tool-you need to master the analysis process. This is a thinking person's dream career!
TechComm Fundamentals Bootcamp is the fastest, most efficient way to jump-start your career in technical communication. It covers key theory that you can immediately apply to your work, as well ... Details When: June 3 – July 22, 2024
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Do you struggle to balance a variety of different types of content? Are you frustrated by trying to meet the needs of the audience both inside and outside your organization? If so, you're not alone. Learn the best practices for developing useful, usable content for any audience. And come away with an actionable plan for assessing, evaluating, producing, and governing your content.
When: May 22 – June 26, 2024
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STC's Technical Communication Summit & Industry Expo is the premier education conference for technical communicators. This year the Summit will be held at the Radisson Blu, in Bloomington, MN.
When: May 17–19, 2024
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Early-career professionals are arriving in the workplace lacking foundational writing skills - even when writing is a core responsibility of their job. Employers are caught off guard by missed deadlines and incomplete assignments and are scrambling to provide solutions. As a 17-year veteran of technical editing and as a new technical writer and mentor within the same company, I will describe the surprising realizations I've gained simply by swimming upstream from managing editior to... Details When: May 7, 2024
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Technical communicators may worry about AI taking jobs. While nobody can make predictions about the long-term, the near-term presents a more complex picture of the situation. AI will undoubtedly take on some roles, but it may expand and create others.
When: April 25, 2024
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