Spring session: April 26 & May 10

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About the Workshop

"The Web" is a broad term that encompasses everything from writing to editing to marketing to HTML. This two-day workshop focuses on:

(1) how editors edit online content; and

(2) how editors use the Web to be more efficient and proficient in their jobs.

The workshop is supplemented with a workbook for in-class activities, lessons, resources, and more.

In this workshop you'll learn how to edit and improve online content using Web standards that have gained common acceptance. In-class assignments will give you a lot of practice. This portion of the workshop also includes an introduction to Web jargon and tools and the basics of HTML coding. The homework involves a one-on-one instructor evaluation of your work. The workbook includes interviews with editors who work as "Web editors" or in a related capacity.

The second focus introduces how you can use online resources to make your job as an editor (in any facet) easier. Learn how to maximize Google and why "search engine optimization" is such a hot-button issue for editors. Know where to turn for specific information and where editors convene online. Find out how to start your marketing Web site. Get a list of 75 Web sites you can reference -- including all those "top sites" recommended by Copyediting.

We touch on browsers, emerging technologies, and publishing software. A guest speaker will come in on the first day to discuss collaboration tools (content management systems and online word processors).

The information provided in this workshop is a culmination of years of research; while you can certainly learn all of this yourself on your own time, it will take you a long, long time! This workshop aims to give you the "need to know" info in just two class sessions.

This is NOT an HTML class and this is NOT a class on how to create a Web site. (We do learn the basics, as HTML pertains to editors, and participants tend to really enjoy this hands-on practice.)

Please email me if you have questions about whether this workshop is right for you: niquettek@comcast.net.

Editing Certificate description and schedule