TC 310, Spring
The Computer in Technical Communication

Software Resources

E-Portfolio

• Instructions: Submitting TC 310 assignments using E-Portfolio
• Background: Information about E-Portfolio

Microsoft Word

Resources for learning/using Microsoft Word:

• Tutorial: Introduction to Microsoft Word for TC310 Students (used on 3/31/03)
• Sample document for tutorial

• Document with Extensive Comments

PowerPoint

Resources for thinking about PowerPoint:

• David Byrne’s “Alternate PowerPoint universe”
• Tufte – The cognitive style of PowerPoint

Photoshop

Resources for learning/using Adobe Photoshop:

• Tutorial 1: Introduction to using Photoshop for creating storyboards(used on 4/7/03)
• Tutorial 1 Sample document: A photoshop file used to explore changes to the design of the UW website.
• Using PowerPoint to showcase the final storyboards. In other words, the powerpoint file shows one screen image per page.

• Tutorial 2: Photoshop Basics, Resolution and Size, File Formats
• FruitMan Building Blocks: A Photoshop file containing the images needed to construct the Mr. Fruit Head (and practice using Photoshop in the process).
• FruitMan End Product: A Photoshop file demonstrating what Mr. Fruit Man could look like.
• Debugging Image 1: An image you scanned is too big to print, and your task is to manipulate the image so that it can be printed on an 8.5 x 11 page.
• Debugging Image 2: An image you created is too big to print, and your task is to manipulate the image so that it can be printed on an 8.5 x 11 page.

• Photoshop 6 for Windows and Macintosh: A Visual Quickstart Guide: This excellent introduction is available online through Safari Books online.
• Photoshop - Advanced Classroom in a Book: This more advanced book is also available through Safari Books Online
• A Tutorial on "Working With Selections": This should be subtitled, "Creating Mr. Fruit Man."

Visio

Resources for learning/using Microsoft Visio:

• Tutorial 1: Introduction to Visio, including example of using Visio for site maps (used on 4/14/03)
• Examples of site maps created in Visio
  • One Sitemap
  • More Sitemaps

HTML / FTP / Web Publishing

Resources for learning/using HTML/FTP/Publishing:

• Tutorial 1: Introduction to HTML(used on 4/21/03)
• For HTML syntax, see class notes / day 7
• Introduction to Usability (Webpage for Tutorial 1): Final
• Introduction to Usability (Webpage for Tutorial 1): Building Blocks
  • Text for Practice Webpage
  • background graphic
  • embedded graphic
• Introduction to Usability (Webpage for Tutorial 1): Broken Version for Debugging

Dreamweaver

Resources for learning/using Macromedia Dreamweaver:

• Tutorial for Dreamweaver, Day 1
• The zip file containing a website already in progress, to be used with the Dreamweaver Day 1 tutorial.

• An introduction to Dreamweaver tutorial prepared specifically for TC310 students.
• Available online from Safari books
  • Dreamweaver in a Nutshell
  • Inside Dreamweaver MX
  • Visual QuickStart Guide Dreamweaver 4 for Windows and Macintosh

Robohelp

Resources for learning/using RoboHelp:

• The main tutorial for Robohelp will be distributed via paper only. The following text is used in the Robohelp tutorial
  • South America is a huge continent that contains thirteen countries and some of the most diverse topography on the planet.
  • Europe is a small multicultural continent, bounded by Asia to the east and Africa to the south.
  • Shaped like its geographical partner of long ago – South America, Africa lies both above and below the equator.
  • Asia is the largest and most populated of the 7 continents.
  • Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Paraguary, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezeula

• There are robohelp manuals in the lab.

InDesign

Resources for learning/using RoboHelp:

• Tutorial for Day 1 - A Professional Quick Tour through InDesign (note: Due to copyright regulations, this file will be available for only a short period of time)
• Tutorial for Day 2 - Creating a Fact Sheet for the TC Department
  • Preview the Final Fact Sheet via the InDesign File or the PDF File
  • Text for the fact sheet
  • Graphic 1 - Page 1, Left
  • Graphic 2 - Page 1, Top Right
  • Graphic 3 - Page 2, Top