One of my lectures at university covered the topic of copyright and it made me think of two things:
1. How we copyright content at my workplace
2. A story I read about Anne Frank’s diary whilst I was in Amsterdam
Month: February 2018
Collaboration Project – Week 5
It’s Week 5 and the deadline for the English version of our instructional document is due next Monday.
Review – Evernote
Today I’ll be reviewing the note-taking app Evernote, which is one of the very few apps that has changed the way I work, organise, take notes and store documents.
Gestalt Principles
A nice little PowerPoint on Gestalt Principles.
Collaboration Project – Week 4
It’s the end of Week 4, which means it’s time for my weekly project collaboration reflection!
Reflective Writing – A Lost Art?
I have spent a few hours this week reading over different blogs relating to technical communication, instructional design and elearning. I noticed that a lot of blogs are written in a very journalistic style; they are sleek and professional. Not a bad thing, but this got me thinking about my blog and reflective writing in general – is it a lost art form?
So many blogs and youtube videos seem to tell you information or demonstrate something, but lack any thought or personal opinion from the author/creator. I suppose in some cases (especially on youtube) authors have to be very careful of what they say as often they are required to be vendor neutral or are being paid to review something (this is a whole topic in itself) however when did having a (educated, polite and well thought out) opinion about a product or tool become a bad thing?
Collaboration Project – Week 3
It’s the end of week 3 and not much has moved forwards regarding the collaboration project. The students from America haven’t been active, due to this we (Limerick team) had to make some decisions without their input. I wonder if this action has actually caused them to not participate so actively?
Ethics in Technical Communication
In November 2017 I decided to join the ISTC, or Institute for Scientific and Technical Communication. As with many professional organisations, a requirement for joining is that you follow the Code of Professional Practice; a link to the PDF can be found here.
Collaboration Project – Week 1 & 2
As part of my MA studies at Limerick University, I have been asked to write a weekly reflection on my studies, focusing on the Virtual Team Project which has just started in Semester 2.
In this project I am working alongside other students at Limerick University, as well as students from a University in the USA and France. The project requirements are to work as a team to develop an instructional document, which will then be translated.
Review – Slack
In this week’s post, I’ll be reviewing the cloud-based project collaboration tool, Slack.