TC 310, Autumn 2002
Computers in the Technical Communication Profession

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Instructor: Jennifer Turns
Office: 245 Engineering Annex
Office Hours: T/Th, 4:30-5:30
Email: jturns@engr.washington.edu
Telephone: 221-3650

Announcements

12/18/02: Check them out! The final professional portfolios from this incredible class.

• Lexus
• Microvision
• Northface
• Nintendo
• Nissan
• Sony
• Volkswagen

12/5/02: The final learning portfolio assignment (assignment 10) is now available.

12/5/02: Tuesday (12/3) and today are devoted to continuing professional portfolio activity. The following files have been associated with these activities:

• Professional portfolio assignment
• Conceptual Designs and Text Writing (presentation from 12/3)
• Formative evaluation (presentation from 12/5)
• Personas (resulting from activity on 11/26)

11/26/02: Today marks the start of the professional portfolio activities. The slides used for today's class are now available.

11/21/02: Please complete the following web survey by Tuesday, 11/26: Click here for the survey. During the week after Thanksgiving, Carrie Groff will be sharing her software experiences as a TC professional. Your responses on this survey will help her customize her presentation to her audience (the students in TC310 -- you guys).

11/21/02: Flash continued. The materials are available below:

• The presentation used in class
• The final "design challenge" movie
• The "design challenge" flash file.

11/19/02: Transitions from Adobe InDesign (page Layout) to Macromedia Flash (animation). The following resources are available.

• Assignment 8 - Flash
• The presentation used in class

11/12/02: Self-paced Fact Sheet Tutorial. The materials below walk you through the development of a 2 page fact sheet using InDesign.

• The tutorial
• The end product - the 2-page fact sheet in InDesign
• The text for the fact sheet
• Image 1 - UW Collage
• Image 2 - Vertical Engineering
• Image 3 - TC Horizontal Logo

11/12/02: Transitions from Dreamweaver (web design) to Adobe InDesign (page Layout). The InDesign/page layout assignment is given below (Assignment 7). The tutorial for today's class -- the first InDesign tutorial -- is available in paper format only.

• Assignment 7 - Page Layout / InDesign
• InDesign Tutorial - Final Product
• Slides used in class on 11/12/02

11/6/02: Wrapping up Dreamweaver. The materials used for today's class are available below:

• Presentation 2 on Dreamweaver

11/4/02: On to Dreamweaver... The materials for today's class include:

• The slides for class discussion
• A Dreamweaver Tutorial
• The "TC-Topics.htm" file
• The "Usability.htm" file
• The "book.jpg" graphic
• The "useit.bmp" graphic

10/31/02: Happy Halloween! Today's class focuses on HTML. The following materials are available:

• slides from today's class
• tutorial,
• example HTML page - Introduction to Usability
• text for the webpage
• two images (background and screen shot)

10/29/02: The slides for today's activity, the next assignment Assignment 5 (Robohelp), and the raw materials for the Robohelp assignment are now available. The Robohelp tutorial used in class is available only in hard copy.

10/24/02: The slides for today's activity are now available.

10/22/02: We are now on to Diagrams and Visio. The diagram/visio assignment (assignment 4) and the first visio tutorial are now available. The slides from today's lecture are also available.

10/17/02: The materials for the second Graphics/Photoshop class include: Graphics/Photoshop Tutorial 2, Fruitman-BuildingBlocks (a Photoshop file), and Fruimman-EndProduct (a Photoshop file).

10/15/02: The following materials from today's lecture are now available: slides from lecture, photoshop tutorial 1, assignment 3 - graphics/photoshop, and Underlying Class Structure.

10/10/02: The slides from the lecture and presentationForDiscussion are now available.

10/8/02: The presentations to be used in class today are now available: agenda, wrapping up assignment 1, teams in TC310, and introduction to presentations and powerpoint.

10/8/02: Assignment 2 (presentations and Powerpoint) is now available.

10/03/02: The powerpoint presentations used in class on Thursday are now available here on the website: Overview of the Syllabus, Technologies in TC310, and Assignments in TC310.

09/27/02: The Getting-to-know-you survey is due by 5:00 on Wednesday, 10/2.

09/27/02: We will be using E-Portfolio to post assignments. To post your assignment, please visit your personal E-portfolio page, and follow the instructions for the "TC310 Portfolio."

09/27/02: To participate in class discussions, please visit the E-Post discussion board set up for our Autumn 2002 section.

09/27/02: Here is the course syllabus

09/23/02: Welcome to TC310!