Website for the STC Instructional Design & Learning Special Interest Group, a Community of Practice
There’s stiil time to register for the STC 2022 Summit
If you register for the STC Technical Communication Summit, taking place 15-18 May at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare, in Rosemont, Illinois (outside of Chicago), between now and 31 March, you’ll automatically be entered in a drawing for one complimentary night during your stay at the official conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency O’Hare.
Your IDL SIG has a great lineup of webinars planned for the winter. SIG members attend our webinars for free and have access to a complete library of past webinars as a benefit of membership. Register now for our webinars and make a serious investment in your #techcomm career.
It’s time to get your networking game on in time for #STC20!
Engineering Your Networking Experiences webinar with Kelly Schrank
Your IDL SIG has a great lineup of webinars planned for the fall. SIG members attend our webinars for free and have access to a complete library of past webinars as a benefit of membership. Register now for our webinars and make a serious investment in your #techcomm career.
Lessons Learned: What Harry Potter Professors Teach Us About Instructional Design by Jamye Sagan
It’s time to get your networking game on in time for #STC20!
Engineering Your Networking Experiences webinar with Kelly Schrank
Compiled by Viqui Dill, programs manager for the STC IDL SIG
Going to the Summit? Wondering what to see and do? Let us help you out!
Here is a list of sessions that may be of interest, chosen because the session is about instructional design and learning, presented by a SIG member, or of general interest to technical communicators. See the complete list of sessions on the Summit website.
First of all, we’re having our annual business meeting, with lunch and networking again.
Register on Eventbrite before May 5.
In this issue, we continue harvesting rich material from our student outreach competition. You know the saying, plant a seed, tend it well and…enjoy the fruit. We are thrilled to publish another winning submission.
Maria Peter, who has just completed a programme in Technical Communication at Seneca, provides a comprehensive review of usability heuristics as they apply to e-learning, distributed learning and websites in general . This is a great resource for students of IDL and a refresher for practitioners.Read More
Lori Meyer, in her co-manager’s column, reviews our 2017 successes . Invigorated by those success, she recommends many ways for you to contribute to and enjoy being part of our awarding winning team. Read more
Marcia Shannon, in her Secretary’s Column, shares six easy, doable ways to stay in touch with your SIG and reap the rewards of your SIG membership. Read more
Meet Viqui Dill in our Member Spotlight. You may already know the venerable Ms. Dill. She is a well-recognised STC face, having been an active member for over 11 years (a fact that belies her youthful vim and vigour). Viqui is her usual frank sharing-self: she does not hold back on how she has grown and how the STC has figured in her professional development. Read more
Crista Mohammed reminds us that SUMMIT TIME is at hand. In her Editor’s picks she shares her plans for Summit 2018–plans that revolve around staying abreast of the field; nurturing the professional within; and friending face-to-face (as opposed to virtually). Read More
Viqui Dill, thoughtful as ever, has extracted all of the key SUMMIT 2018 events for the IDL SIG. Included in Viqui’s list are all the presentations that will be made by IDLers. Read More
Marcia Shannon reviews Cammy Bean’s The Accidental Instructional Designer. The title of the book is relatable. So it is when you work in an emerging field: the needs of the market precede the discipline. Many of our careers are thus “accidental”. Marcia finds the book deserving of careful reading as it is information dense, but that density does not burden the reader in the least. Marcia reports that Bean’s light breezy writing is enjoyable and easy to read. Read more
O*NET program, the most comprehensive source of occupational data in the USA, is seeking experienced Instructional Designers and Technologists to add their career information to the O*NET database. Read more
