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September Meeting
To attend, please register by Friday, September 12. What is instruction? Is the design of instruction really different than the design of information architecture? Aren't we creating instruction when we write procedures, directions, and job aids? What are some key instructional design competencies. How do I develop those competencies? Where can I find useful instructional design resources? These questions and more will be answered in an interactive presentation by Kim Ruyle, a frequent national STC presenter. Kim E. Ruyle is Director of Learning & Development for Siemens Dematic Corporation here in Grand Rapids. He has responsibility for employee development, customer training, performance management, and succession planning. Kim has a rare blend of hands-on work experience and extensive academic credentials. He started his career in the skilled trades, was a university professor, and ran his own business. His graduate degrees in instructional technology, business, and vocational education include an MS, MEd, MBA, and PhD. Kim serves on several expert panels for learning technologies and is a frequent conference presenter and author. His STC experience includes more than a dozen presentations and workshops for chapters in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, and New York. He has also presented at STC conferences in Florida, California, and Wisconsin. October Meeting
How much do you as a writer control the budget for an online learning project? Actually, quite a bit! Whether you are working with an Instructional Designer, or you're wearing multiple hats, you are in the driver's seat when it comes to defining the interactive instances that effect the project development costs. In this session, you will explore budget-conscious yet highly effective techniques for presenting relevant information and supporting it with guided practice and feedback. You will:
Chris Willis is CEO of Media 1 Interactive, Inc., a West Michigan contract team that helps Fortune 1000 companies prosper through implementing effective eLearning solutions. Since founding Media 1 in 1993, Chris has been passionate about using online technologies to meld the best practices of technical communication and instructional design, and has shaped a sensible eLearning development methodology that works in the real business world. She has led dozens of online learning projects from conception to delivery, and is an active writer/speaker for the eLearning Guild (www.elearningguild.com) and other trade organizations. Chris holds a B.S. Degree in Arts & Media from Grand Valley State University. November Meeting
You write, therefore you format. Not quite cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), but it does seem that writing and formatting have become nearly indistinguishable. If you use any of the popular tools for creating text, MS Word or FrameMaker for instance, you format the content as you write. Taken a step further, products like DreamWeaver and FrontPage enable you to create formatted Web content by design. It may be that in the future, technical writing will be much more about creating content and much less about formatting that content. This talk explores the issues that make this change in focus possible and probable. It includes an explanation of why database publishing is such a hot topic and why it is not for everybody. What drives the decision to treat content as data and what are the benefits of this approach? It includes some drawbacks of current solutions and a suggestion of what the right solution should be. Rob founded Rascal Software in the summer of
2002. He began his career in publications as an editor at Houghton
Mifflin Co. He has
been working in software development, chiefly in the documentation
area, for over twenty years. He started as a technical writer at
Software Arts (VisiCalc) and as a documentation manager at Lotus.
He has been involved in a wide variety of software startups, including
Exa, Marathon Technologies, and Millennium Pharmaceuticals. He has
consulted to a number of large and small companies, including Sun
Microsystems, Microsoft, Rational, AT&T Wireless, and Onyx Software.
He was a founding partner of RFK Partners, a well-known CAD consulting
company. Rob has been a judge for Puget Sound STC competitions for
the past two years. He is also a frequent speaker at STC events throughout
the country.
January Meeting
February Meeting
March Meeting
April Meeting
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