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Project 2 Turn-in Procedures; Project 3
November 13, 2008
Tonight we'll go through the
turn-in procedures for Project 2 (scroll to the bottom), and the
description for Project 3, which you'll begin working on tonight after any remaining projects are presented.
Be sure to look at the next news item on Chicago STC scholarships, if you haven't already.
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Criteria
College of DuPage: Technical Communication Certificate
DePaul University: Master of Arts in Writing
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Criteria
College of
DuPage: Technical Communication Certificate
DePaul University: Master of Arts in Writing
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Chicago STC Scholarships
November 10, 2008
From
STC Chicago:
About the Scholarships
Each year, STC Chicago awards scholarships, in the amount of $500 each, to two students in technical communications programs. The purpose of the scholarships, which are granted toward tuition and expenses, is to help recipients continue their education in the field of technical communication. Recipients will receive a letter of recognition for their portfolios, public recognition in our newsletter and on our website, and an invitation to our Awards banquet.
STC Chicago does not require that applicants be members of the Society for Technical Communication.
Criteria
- Students must be enrolled in approved technical communication programs in the Chicago area (approved programs are listed below).*
- Students must submit an application packet that includes 1-3 samples of their technical communication work as students or professionals.
- Part-time students are eligible to apply for scholarships.
These materials will be available from our website,
http://www.stc-chicago.org, over the weekend.
Approved Programs
College of
DuPage: Technical Communication Certificate
College of Lake County: Technical Communication Program
DePaul University: Master of Arts in Writing
Illinois Institute of Technology: Technical Communication (
PhD, MS, certificate, BS), Information Architecture (MS), Instructional Design (certificate), International Technical Communication (certificate), Internet Communication (BS)
Northern Illinois University: Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing, M.A. in English with a Concentration in Professional Writing, English (BA)
Application Instructions
Submit the following items in the application packet:
- A completed application form.
- A brief description of career goals, including how you envision contributing to the field of technical communication.
- Samples (up to three) of technical communication work.
Application Deadline
January 9, 2009
Award Announcements
March 2009
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Examples from October 9 Class
October 10, 2008
I've added the SQL code for building the email address book database, plus the example form and PHP script for inspecting
$_POST at the bottom of the
WeekSeven page. Enjoy.
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Social Opportunity
September 18, 2008
Mark your calendars and plan to attend the Humanities Open House on Wednesday, September 24 from 4pm to 6pm in the Kemper Room Art Gallery on the 2nd floor of Galvin Library. Hors d'oeuvres, soft drinks, and beer/wine will be served. Come meet new and returning Humanities faculty, staff, grad students, and undergraduate majors.
No differences.
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Two Opportunities, and Requesting Page Deletions
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Two Opportunities, and Requesting PageDeletions
September 17, 2008
- Eben English, a Reference & Digital Services Librarian at Galvin Library, has grant funding to pay students to mark up texts for IIT's Voices of the Holocaust project, using XML and specifically the Text Encoding Initiative's XML schema. Email me for details, and I can put you in touch with Eben.
- Experimental Sound Studios is looking for a PR Manager whose responsibilities fit right in line with the abilities of students in tech comm, particularly regarding website maintenance and so forth. Again, email me at karl.stolley at gmail for details.
Pages for Deletion: Please post any pages that you would like deleted from the wiki at
DeleteMePlease.
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Tonight we will be going beyond the work of merely marking up XML and look at how an XML document can be transformed, via XSLT, into other XML vocabularies or even into an XHTML document for display on a web browser. The experience you have with this will likely help you refine your XML vocabulary for this first project.
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Tonight we will be going beyond the work of merely marking up XML and looking at how an XML document can be transformed into an XHTML document for display on a web browser. The experience you have with this will likely help you refine your XML vocabulary for this first project.
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Also, please make use of the wiki formatting language, and particularly for your XML projects, add the simple markup to add syntax highlighting, line numbers, and a download button. The formatting makes your pages easier to read, and your code simple to download and test.
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XML Transformations; Using the Wiki
September 11, 2008
Tonight we will be going beyond the work of merely marking up XML and looking at how an XML document can be transformed into an XHTML document for display on a web browser. The experience you have with this will likely help you refine your XML vocabulary for this first project.
However, we'll spend most of our time together tonight workshopping your first projects, which are due--with presentations--next week.
I also want to talk a bit about the wiki usage. Some of you (like
AnushkaP and
ChrisL) are doing a great job of keeping your pages organized and labeled appropriately. Others of you are making a mess. In a class on Information Structure and Retrieval, I expect you to keep an information architect's mindset throughout--and make it easy for me and for everyone in the class to find your reading responses, sample projects, and so on. Make meaningful titles for your URLs, and follow the
CamelCase naming conventions for the site. A look at the
PageIndex reveals quickly who's doing this well--and who's not.
On a related note, unless you genuinely are making a minor edit to a page, provide a detailed description of what you have done. Now that I've gone through and commented on pages now, it will help me (and you) keep your progress straight as we look back over what you claimed to have done.
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Welcome to the course website for COM541: Information Structure and Retrieval. You'll want to
bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the
policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the course
calendar with each week's class agenda and readings and activities for the next meeting. We'll go over both the policies and the calendar tonight.
One of the other important orders of business tonight will be for everyone to
register on the wiki. A top-secret password will be given in class that you'll need to register; please set your username as your first name and last initial (e.g., Karl Stolley is
KarlS). This will keep help everyone clear on who's doing what on the wiki, while also avoiding having this site show up in a Google search for your full name.
(By next week, edit your page with a short introduction to the class, and then add your name on the
Course Members page in alphabetical order. See the
WikiHelp page for more information on using the wiki.)
Also, if you don't have a
Delicious or other social bookmarking account, you'll need to register for one. You'll use the tag
com541 to mark links you find that are of relevance to the class--anything from XML tutorials to news stories with an information architecture or structure angle to them. Starting next week, your com541-tagged Delicious bookmarks will appear on the wiki.
Finally, we'll spend just a little time tonight talking about XHTML and microformats, which some of you may be familiar with. That will launch us into hitting XML hard and fast next week.
Again, welcome to the course.--
Karl
2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)
Have a look at the
call for papers for this local conference, and please consider submitting. It's great experience to have as graduate students, and I'd be very proud to see IIT Tech Comm/Humanities students on their program. The deadline for submitting a proposal is
August 31; the conference itself is November 1-3, which is over a weekend.
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Welcome to the course website for COM541: Information Structure and Retrieval. You'll want to
bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the
policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the cour
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
Hi all- sorry this comes the day of class. I have the article. Ms. Fields and I took a trip to another university to locate the reading. We were wondering if locating it was a lesson on bad information structure. Anywho- if anyone wants a copy. See one of us in or after class- and bring your change!
Written by You aren't allowed to read included page FredShCard
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
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Fred Logan has a copy of the Sapienza article
Hi all- sorry this comes the day of class. I have the article. Ms. Fields and I took a trip to another university to locate the reading. We were wondering if locating it was a lesson on bad information structure. Anywho- if anyone wants a copy. See one of us in or after class- and bring your change!
Written by
You aren't allowed to read included page FredShCard
Welcome to the course website for COM541: Information Structure and Retrieval. You'll want to
bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the
policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the cour
Deletions:
Welcome to the course website for COM541: Information Structure and Retrieval. You'll want to
bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the
policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the course
calendar with each week's class agenda and readings and activities for the next meeting. We'll go over both the policies and the calendar tonight.
One of the other important orders of business tonight will be for everyone to
register on the wiki. A top-secret password will be given in class that you'll need to register; please set your username as your first name and last initial (e.g., Karl Stolley is
KarlS). This will keep help everyone clear on who's doing what on the wiki, while also avoiding having this site show up in a Google search for your full name.
(By next week, edit your page with a short introduction to the class, and then add your name on the
Course Members page in alphabetical order. See the
WikiHelp page for more information on using the wiki.)
Also, if you don't have a
Delicious or other social bookmarking account, you'll need to register for one. You'll use the tag
com541 to mark links you find that are of relevance to the class--anything from XML tutorials to news stories with an information architecture or structure angle to them. Starting next week, your com541-tagged Delicious bookmarks will appear on the wiki.
Finally, we'll spend just a little time tonight talking about XHTML and microformats, which some of you may be familiar with. That will launch us into hitting XML hard and fast next week.
Again, welcome to the course.--
Karl
2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)
Have a look at the
call for papers for this local conference, and please consider submitting. It's great experience to have as graduate students, and I'd be very proud to see IIT Tech Comm/Humanities students on their program. The deadline for submitting a proposal is
August 31; the conference itself is November 1-3, which is over a weekend.
Course Home and Latest News
Deeper into XML Territory
September 4, 2008
We have some important business to address tonight. The first concerns access to journal articles, which turned out to be--at least for the Sapienza article--way more of a hassle than I'd anticipated. We'll talk about what happened, and why, and how we'll avoid this problem for the semester. We'll also talk about the reading that you were able to do.
The second order of business is to discuss the XML reading for this week concerning DTDs and XML Schema--and why you won't be expected to write either of those for Project 1, but why as information architects and technical communicators you need to be aware of such things. We'll also briefly talk about incorporating other namespaces in your XML documents (which we didn't get to last week).
Finally, we'll be workshopping your draft XML for Project 1. See this week's
notes and activities for details.
First Night of Class
August 21, 2008
Welcome to the course website for COM541: Information Structure and Retrieval. You'll want to
bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the
policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the course
calendar with each week's class agenda and readings and activities for the next meeting. We'll go over both the policies and the calendar tonight.
One of the other important orders of business tonight will be for everyone to
register on the wiki. A top-secret password will be given in class that you'll need to register; please set your username as your first name and last initial (e.g., Karl Stolley is
KarlS). This will keep help everyone clear on who's doing what on the wiki, while also avoiding having this site show up in a Google search for your full name.
(By next week, edit your page with a short introduction to the class, and then add your name on the
Course Members page in alphabetical order. See the
WikiHelp page for more information on using the wiki.)
Also, if you don't have a
Delicious or other social bookmarking account, you'll need to register for one. You'll use the tag
com541 to mark links you find that are of relevance to the class--anything from XML tutorials to news stories with an information architecture or structure angle to them. Starting next week, your com541-tagged Delicious bookmarks will appear on the wiki.
Finally, we'll spend just a little time tonight talking about XHTML and microformats, which some of you may be familiar with. That will launch us into hitting XML hard and fast next week.
Again, welcome to the course.--
Karl
2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)
August 21, 2008
Have a look at the
call for papers for this local conference, and please consider submitting. It's great experience to have as graduate students, and I'd be very proud to see IIT Tech Comm/Humanities students on their program. The deadline for submitting a proposal is
August 31; the conference itself is November 1-3, which is over a weekend.