STC Summit 2016

Attendees will leave with a working Moodle course!

This course will have three parts:
-Scoping the course and creating a course outline
-Creating course structure using Moodle
-Creating course content and populating

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At its core, REST API documentation focuses on requests and responses. Surrounding this core, there are a host of details to cover, such as authentication, endpoints, parameters, methods, response formats, rate limits, error codes, and more. In publishing REST API documentation, you can create interactive documentation using specifications such as Swagger, RAML, or API Blueprint. In this half-day workshop, you will learn how to document REST APIs in depth.

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This workshop will help you tailor your writing in English for non-English-speaking readers. It will help you apply principles of good technical communication in a global context.
We will use interactive exercises to get at topics that can include:
• Structuring ideas
• Short is beautiful
• Minimalism and global English in technical communications
• Differences between native English and global English
• The role of culture
• Know your audience
• Terminology
• Common traps
• Writing collectively, topic based authoring, etc.
Near the beginning of the workshop, we'll find out participants' specific questions and needs, and adjust the content to answer as many as possible.

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Welcome to the eLearning tool slug-fest. In this corner ... Adobe Captivate. Over there? It's Articulate Storyline? And because this isn't a two-tool fight, look over there and you'll see TechSmith Camtasia Studio.

Bring your own laptop loaded with trial versions of Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, and TechSmith Camtasia Studio. Sound the bell and create and publish an eLearning project in each of the tools.

Let the tools pound on each other and find out, first-hand, which tool is right for you!

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Smartphones have sparked a huge, new software segment--the mobile app. They have also changed how traditional desktop software is being designed and developed. This creates an important pair of questions for user assistance professionals: What is our role going forward in mobile and how can we prepare to take that on? User assistance does have a role in supporting mobile apps.
This workshop is designed to provide an introduction to key topics and also to foster discussion on the best ways to design our content for this new paradigm. As the mobile market continues to expand, this is becoming the next frontier for user assistance professionals.

Do you manage a team of technical authors and editors? Are you looking for ideas to help improve writing and editing skills, establish better consistency, and create fun challenges for your team?
This session introduces the idea of gamification, which is turning a generic activity into a game. Gamification offers great advantages for a tech pubs manager, including:
• Solving some of the most common writing problems, such as inconsistency, sloppy editing, and fluffy writing.
• Fostering creativity and helping teams explore alternate solutions to content problems.
• Making the work environment more fun and more intellectually rewarding.

Additional rates apply for this session.