TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 TC 310 The Computer in Technical Communication Dr. Jennifer Turns Week 7, Day 2 (5/14)

TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 Day 17 By the end of class, students should be able to: –Describe the collection of work completed in TC310 –Describe final requirements for TC310 (learning portfolio, professional portfolio) –Discuss different audiences for the professional portfolio –Identify decisions for designing the professional portfolio What we’ll do… –Debrief Assignments 7 and 8 –Explore example professional portfolios –Initiate audience analysis for the professional portfolio assignment

TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 Taking Stock - WOW! 10 Designed Solutions over 8 assignments: –Illustrating uses of software: Word, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Visio, RoboHelp, Dreamweaver, HTML, InDesign –Illustrating genres of TC activity: Document design, Presentation design, Fact Sheets, Online Help… –Illustrating use of common software functionality - Styles, Master Slide/Page, Layers Also –Key Features – talking about solutions –Design Rationale – talking about design –Professional Activity – talking about units of activity –Learning Reflections – talking about learning And the goals?… see Syllabus

TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 Final Two Assignments Professional Portfolio (assignment 9): A portfolio that provides evidence of your professional skills and serves to convince a reader that you are prepared to function as a professional. Implemented as a website containing 6 examples of your work, from this term, annotations of that work, and an overarching professional statement. Learning Portfolio (assignment 10): A portfolio that provides evidence of your learning in the TC310. Implemented as an “E-portfolio” with five pages (one for each learning objective and one “wildcard”).

TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 The Final Stretch… DayEmphasis Tuesday (11/25)Examples (see website for Fall 02, Spring 03) Audience analysis Tuesday (12/2)Storyboards Sample annotations Thursday (12/4)Software beyond TC310 Working session Tuesday (12/9)Open House, Due date! Monday (12/15)Learning portfolio due

TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 Audience Analysis - Personas General Dimensions –Goals: What would be his/her goal in interacting with the professional portfolio? Implications? –Knowledge: What types of knowledge does he/she bring (and not bring)? –Circumstances of Use: Under what circumstance might he/she explore the professional portfolio? Implications? Persona – “A persona is a profile of an archetypal user synthesized from a series of interviews with real people. It includes a name, a social history, and a set of goals that drive the developer’s design of the product or website.” (Perfetti, in Intercom, Nov 2002, p. 35)

TC 310, Day 17, Tuesday 25 November 2003 Homework – Tuesday, 12/2 Read assignment 9 and 10 Bring the following items to class on Tuesday… 1.Questions about assignments 9 and 10 2.The list of the six artifacts you plan to include in your professional portfolio. 3.The text that will annotate one of the artifacts. 4.A storyboard representing your ideas for your professional portfolio (sketches are fine).