Posts Tagged ‘education’

How you learn to use Google Wave

{ Posted on Oct 12 2009 by annegentle }
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Since I write user assistance for a living, I'm naturally drawn to the devices the Google Wave team is implementing in order to teach people how to use Google Wave. For me, there were a few waves in my inbox from ...Read More »

STC Live Web Seminar – Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your new co-authors)

{ Posted on Aug 19 2009 by annegentle }
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I'll be presenting a webinar on Thursday September 10th at 1:00 EST about collaborative authoring techniques. Here's the session description: Groups can take action even quicker than ever before in history thanks to tools that amplify group communications such as wikis, ...Read More »

Technical Writers in Demand, Mix Experience and Education Before Applying

{ Posted on Dec 09 2008 by annegentle }
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This post was contributed by Kelly Kilpatrick, who writes on the subject of online colleges and universities. She invites your feedback at kellykilpatrick24 at gmail dot com. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 49,000 technical writers in the ...Read More »

A nice OLPC story

{ Posted on Dec 01 2008 by annegentle }
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Lifted in whole from the December 1, 2008 OLPC Community update - what a neat story. Cambridge: Samuel Dalembert, the 6-11 starting center for the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, is a devotee of technology whose personal foundation supports a variety of youth projects. Samuel ...Read More »

Notes from April 2008 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Jul 07 2008 by annegentle }
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Better late than never, I suppose. I've had these notes on my hard drive and want to post them to the cloud of my blog. John Hunt, DITA Architect in the Lotus Information Development Center at IBM and DITA Learning and ...Read More »

Check her out!

{ Posted on Jun 20 2008 by annegentle }
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Here's my interview for GirlStart, highlighting a technical communication career for the "Check her out!" section of their website. The toughest question for me was the last one! GirlStart is a non-profit based in Austin that empowers girls in math, ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative

{ Posted on Mar 23 2008 by annegentle }
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I have been talking to SJ Klein regularly via email and phone for my work on the wiki pages and kid's user manual for the XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, so I was excited to hear him speak ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – BarCamp Austin III (BarCampAustin3)

{ Posted on Mar 10 2008 by annegentle }
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Steve Carl already wrote up his notes from BarCamp Austin and I enjoyed his viewpoint very much. This was only my second BarCamp experience, and this year, I decided to take the plunge and actually volunteer to present. Whurley was ...Read More »

Taking the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the preschool classroom

{ Posted on Mar 02 2008 by annegentle }
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What can you teach with the XO laptop? I'm still pondering that question for US-based classrooms. I'm reading the news from Birmingham Alabama and the blog entries from Dallas-Fort Worth Texas school systems with interest. Apparently you can buy a ...Read More »

DITA and wiki hybrids – they’re here

{ Posted on Feb 27 2008 by annegentle }
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Lisa Dyer and Alan Porter presented at last week's DITA Central Texas User Group meeting, and both told tales of end-user doc written and sourced in DITA, with wikitext in mind as an output. About 20 people attended and we ...Read More »
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