First Fridays at 5 is a social event run by students and the Instructional Design & Learning (IDL) Special Interest Group (SIG) happening the first Friday of the month. See Eventbrite to follow and receive monthly reminders. The next conversation – What’s up with Slack?!?!? is Friday, August 6 at 5:00 PM ET. Register here.
IDL SIG Summit Events-June 8 & 9
Summit Honors on Tuesday, June 8 at 1 pm EDT
STC Summit Honors Event where the Community of the Year and Most Improved Community were announced. Watch the video and see the exciting announcement at 27:01
https://vimeo.com/event/1028521/videos/555700556/
Open House on Wednesday, June 9 at 12:45 pm EDT
Join the IDL SIG during the Open House. You don’t need to be registered for the Summit! Drop by and say hi to our volunteers and enter to win a door prize to be drawn at the AGM! Mark your calendars and join using the Zoom link https://zoom.us/j/95239076337?pwd=Wi9RTWdwbkEyYllHUllJWTVQaENiQT09. *
Prize drawing for IDL CoP SIG
Volunteer for STC IDL CoP SIG
And looking ahead . . .
STC IDL SIG AGM (Annual General Meeting)
Tue, June 29, 2021 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
First Fridays at 5: Join the conversation – drinks after work!
Fri, July 02, 2021 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
IDL SIG Members to Present at STC Summit, June 7-9, 2021
Once again, we hope this list will help you plan your time at the Summit.
The following members of the IDL SIG are presenting at the STC Summit, as shown immediately below. Mark your schedules, and attend to support them! Also included in this post are topics/presenters that could be of interest to you as a member of the Instructional Design & Learning SIG.
Click here for a printable list of presenters.
Tip: For those who are not able to attend the Summit this year, make note of any topics that you find of interest. Then let the Program Manager know that you’d be sure to sign up if we were able to convince these talented and informative presenters to reprise their presentations for the SIG at a later date.
Presenter(s) |
Jun |
Start time (EST) |
Title |
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| Ben Woelk, Kelsey Loftin | 7 | 1100 | Kelsey & Ben’s Excellent Adventure: A Mentoring Story Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
| Ed Marsh | 8 | 0900 | Podcasting for Fun and/or Profit Content Design and Delivery | |
| Kelly Schrank | 8 | 1000 | Low-Cost and Low-Effort Ways to Create Infographics and Visually Appealing Slides Tools and Technologies | |
| Sree Pattabiraman | 8 | 1000 | Ace Your Video Documentation: A DITA-Centered Approach to Optimize Video Production Content Design and Delivery | |
| Viqui Dill | 8 | 1600 | Show Up, Speak Up, Shut Up: How to Be a Good Ally Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
IDL-related presentations
Presenter(s) |
Jun |
Time (EST) |
Title |
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| Char James-Tanny | 5 | 1400 | Preconference workshop: Make Your Content Usable by (Almost) Everyone: An Introduction to Accessibility (*Additional cost to attend) | |
| Mike Parkinson | 5 | 0900 | Preconference workshop: At-A-Glance Infographics
(*Additional cost to attend) |
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| Jennifer Goode | 7 | 0900 | Survey Says: Don’t Start a Feud—Write Stronger Surveys Content Design and Delivery | |
| Abigail Bettle-Shaffer | 7 | 1100 | What is Ableism, and Why Does It Matter? Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
| David Dylan Thomas | 7 | 1400 | FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION: Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil Content Design and Delivery, Featured Speaker Session |
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| Mike Parkinson | 7 | 1500 | Quick Fixes for Bad Slides Content Design and Delivery |
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| Lou Prosperi | 7 | 1600 | Tell Your Story the Disney Way: Applying Disney Imagineering to Technical Communication Content Design and Delivery |
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| Leah Guren | 8 | 0900 | Zoom-proof Your Presentations: Delivering Engaging Talks in a Virtual Space Management, Leadership, and Career Development |
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| Bremen Vance, Philip B. Gallagher | 8 | 1100 | Teaching with Google Workspace Platforms Tools and Technologies | |
| Candice A. Welhausen, David Caruso | 8 | 1400 | FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION: Pandemics, Public Health, and Strategies for Conveying Information About Risk Content Design and Delivery, Featured Speaker Session | |
| Michael Levitt | 8 | 1500 | Burnout Proof Your Communications Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
| Ray Davis | 8 | 1600 | Adobe Photoshop’s Data-Driven Images Tools and Technologies | |
| Mark Kleinsmith, Steven Morgan | 8 | 1600 | Develop Engaging, Interactive Online Training Sessions Content Design and Delivery | |
| Mike Parkinson | 9 | 1000 | No Money, No Design Skills, No Problem Content Design and Delivery | |
| Roberta (Bobbi) Werner | 9 | 1000 | From Contributor to Manager: What Got Me Here Won’t Get Me There Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
| John Garison | 9 | 1100 | Building and Sustaining a Career in Technical Communication Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
| Bremen Vance, Samantha Cosgrove | 9 | 1100 | Aligning Content with Reality: Practitioner Perspectives on Textbook Keywords Management, Leadership, and Career Development | |
First Fridays at 5: Let’s do it again!
Friday, June 4 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time
Some things are worth repeating, so let’s do it again. Join our student group in conversation and sign up now at https://www.facebook.com/events/471393380780788/
There’s always something to learn, regardless of your experience.
The Original Remote Instructors: ID Lessons from TVs Greatest Teachers
Thursday, May 27, 2021
10:30 am, Pacific/ 11:30 am, Mountain/ 12:30 pm, Central/ 1:30 pm Eastern
Join us for the “The Original Remote Instructors: ID Lessons from TVs Greatest Teachers” with Student Outreach winner, Catherine Wecksell, who was recently published in our newsletter. Her article and presentation explore the original distance educators—from Reading Rainbow, the Joy of Painting, and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. She draws excellent strategies from her examples and presents tips for incorporating their successful techniques into your lesson planning.
Register at https://www.facebook.com/events/50624349053413/