STC San Diego Chapter

Local Education

College certificate programs

UC San Diego Certificate in Technical Communication or Copyediting
San Diego State University Certificate in Technical and Scientific Writing
UC Riverside Certificate in Technical Writing
CSU Fullerton Certificate in Technical Writing
CSU Long Beach Certificate in Technical and Professional Writing
CSU Dominguez Hills Certificate in Technical Writing
UC Los Angeles Online Certificate Program
San Diego City College Certificate in Computer Technical Illustration


Individual courses

DITA Tools Webinars

Anna Parker-Richards (president of the STC Toronto chapter)

The STC Toronto chapter is putting on a series of DITA tools webinars.

Here's the link to our home page: www.stctoronto.org and here's the link to the webinar series page: http://www2.stctoronto.org/get-involved/events/webinar.

Webinar Schedule

    Upcoming:

    Completed – these sessions were recorded and will be posted on YouTube.

Our webinar series is a bit of a twist on the typical DITA presentation in that we're encouraging the vendors to show their wares rather than focus on the fundamentals of structured authoring and DITA elements. The agenda is simple: Bernard Ashwanden does a 20 minute DITA overview, the vendor demonstrates their product for 45 minutes, and then Q&A.

We have room for 100 participants and with our local distribution list, we really are only attracting 30 to 40 participants. We did the first session with Quark, are in the process of cleaning up the recording, and plan to post it in on YouTube to share with everyone. People who attended the first session were really pleased and several are asking me for the recording.

Measuring Documentation Quality (Webinar)

Measuring the Quality of your Documentation

The Europe SIG and STC France chapter are hosting a documentation quality-assessment webinar on 22 March at 19.00 CET.

Sign up today at http://stcwebinardocquality.eventbrite.com/. All the details about the registration process are there, along with the time of the webinar in your time zone.

Quality-assessment expert and STC member, Alice Jane Emanuel, will introduce an easy-to-use comprehensive tool for document quality assessment. Alice Jane will show how this tool provides empirical data and granular feedback to let you can track your team's progress.

Alice Jane Emanuel is a quality-assessment expert with more than 15 years of experience in large-scale regional and international peer review activities. She developed this tool out of a research and development process that included years of peer review assessments with other peer review professionals. She was also involved in marketing the business benefits of quality to corporate management.

COST:

This announcement is also posted on the following blog:
http://www.stc-europe.org/2011/03/13/webinar-measure-the-quality-of-your-doc

STC Web Seminars

STC offers live web seminars on educatonal topics of interest to technical communicators. See the lineup at http://stc.org/education/online-education/live-seminars.

The Society offers Web seminars archived via the STC Live Learning Center (http://www.softconference.com/stc/amh.asp). The Web seminars are archived versions of live Web seminars presented earlier. Archive cost: Members, $49; Non-members, $99.

STC Online Certificate Courses

STC offers multiple online courses where participants can earn a certificate. The courses are divided into 90-minute sessions and presented live online over several weeks. Participants must log in for all sessions to earn the certificate.

The STC certificate program lets you explore a subject in depth over the course of several weeks. In addition to developing practical work skills, participating in a certificate program provides you with an opportunity to learn directly from an instructor and exchange ideas and tools virtually with the other participants in the program.

Teaching the courses will be some of STC´s finest and best known instructors.

For more information go to http://stc.org/education/online-education/certificate-courses

STC Certification

The STC Board of Directors approved a performance-based certification plan at the 2010 Summit in Dallas, Texas.

The STC certification will encompass six broad areas of practice: