By Paul Scott, IDL SIG Newsletter Editor
CONTENTS
- FEATURED ARTICLE: The Original Remote Instructors: ID Lessons from TV’s Greatest Teachers, by Catherine Wecksell
- FEATURED ARTICLE: The Importance of Needs Assessments in Global Technical Communication, by Kylie Call
- Getting the Most from my IDL SIG Student Membership, by Anita Matechuk
- IDL SIG Treasurer Report – 2021 Q1, by Jamye Sagan, IDL SIG Treasurer
- Student Volunteers: Do you have FONBQ?, by Mellissa Ruryk
- Can you still renew your STC and IDL SIG membership for 2021? YES!, by Lori Meyer, STC IDL SIG membership manager
- 2020 IDL SIG/CoP Demographic Survey Results, by Jamye Sagan
- Lori Meyer Receives Distinguished SIG Service Award, by Maralee Sautter
This quarter’s issue is uncommonly large and high-quality, and almost all of it focuses on our student members. In fact, most of our issue is actually written by student members. Let this encourage more of you to write for us!
We lead with not one, but two featured articles, both by student members. Catherine Wecksell provides an excellent analysis of the instructional design of some of television’s pioneering teachers: Fred Rogers, LeVar Burton, and Bob Ross. Then Kylie Call discusses the ins and outs of needs assessment in the context of a class assignment: designing an application with user documentation for an audience in Nepal. We follow this with Student Member Anne Matechuk, discussing how she works to benefit from her Student Membership.
Then we have articles from our officers. Jamye Sagan, our Treasurer, gives our quarterly financial report, as well as the results of her demographic survey of our membership. Membership Manager Lori Meyer assures us that there is still time to renew your membership for 2021, and our Webmaster Maralee Sautter then tells us about Lori’s well-deserved Distinguished SIG Service Award (Lori was too modest to mention it herself).
This has been my favorite issue to edit so far. I hope all of you will continue to write this great content for us. See you in June!