Welcome, Welcome Back, and Goodbye
Welcome to our newest team member, Cory, and welcome back to Carolyn.
Goodbye for now to D-L, who will be sharing her expertise and passion with the Marketing team for a term period.
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Editing Team Meeting 9/11/2019
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Call to order: 10:30am In attendance: Courtney Charlton, Naomi Cloutier, Dani Collins (Chair), Justin Frudd, Mona Hall, Paul Martin, Cory Stumpf, Chris Ward (scribe & time keeper) Dani: Welcome and new meeting format Call for note taker and time keeper: Chris Call for review of process changes this summer Chris: brief review of process changes…
Style Change: Development Team List
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We are changing our house style for the list of course developers on a copyright and credits page. Include the person’s terminal or highest credential only. Group the list by years of editions and revisions. Order the groups in reverse chronological order; i.e., most recent is at the top and earliest is at the bottom…
Student Outcomes
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Our editing goal is to make learner-centred courses that meet the needs of our students. But how can we know if we have achieved this, since we seldom have the chance to meet Open Learning students face-to-face? One valuable resource is to check student feedback from post-course surveys in Tableau. This can indicate which specific…
Updates to Course Guide URLs
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Required Hardware, Software, Computer Skills, and Other Resources • change to http://www.tru.ca/distance/services/student-orientation/technical-basics.html Technical Support change two URLs: • “…the correct hardware and software required for your course at http://www.tru.ca/distance/services/student-orientation/technical-basics.html.” • “… go to the IT Service Desk at http://www.tru.ca/distance/contact/helpdesk.html.” Student Café • Change to http://www.tru.ca/distance/services/student-orientation/online-discussions.html
Farewell to Gail Morong
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To paraphrase Gail’s retirement speech: “Work will come and work will go; what matters in the end is to love each other and treat each other right.“
Dictionary of Canadianisms
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Here’s an open, online resource that could be a useful guide for editors (or writers, or students) to verify or to explain Canadian regionalisms or idioms. Dollinger, S. (Chief Editor), & Fee, M. (Associate Editor). (2017). DCHP-2: The dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles (2nd ed., with the assistance of B. Ford, A. Gaylie, & G. Lim)….