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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Don’t Panic! A Tutorial for Word’s Track Changes
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Some of the course developers we work with are new to using MS Word’s track changes. When the editor sends a query or document for review, the number of changes shown could be overwhelming. This tutorial on MS Word 2010 could help: Lynda.com. (2013, April 7). Word tutorial: How to track changes in documents (4:34) [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/5_knruAysnA.
Creating and Maintaining an In-House Style Guide
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The editing team participated in an Editors Canada webinar in January 2017: “Creating and Maintaining In-House Style Guides” presented by Elizabeth Macfie. It was a great webinar, and I’m sure we will discuss her ideas often in 2017 as we improve and revise our OL style guide. Elizabeth covered her process for building and maintaining a style guide, and she offered…
Interculturalization and Indigenization Academic Goals
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Open Learning’s editing team works in support of TRU’s intercultural and indigenization academic goals. (See, for example, http://www.tru.ca/about/academics/understanding.html.) This article that Gail shared on indigenization may be of interest in our work: Academica Group. (2016, September 19). How indigenization can support students while honouring reconciliation. Retrieved from http://forum.academica.ca/forum/how-indigenization-can-support-students-while-honouring-reconciliation.
Altruism Increases Productivity?
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Thought I’d share this quote from MIST 2611: Management Information Systems: “Is there anything companies can do to make their employees feel less pressed for time? Yes. Force them to help others. A recent study suggests that having employees complete occasional altruistic tasks throughout the day increases their sense of overall productivity.” Leberecht, T. (2012, June)….
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)….
Self-Care for Editors
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Self-care is a concept taught in our CYMH courses, which can be beneficial for editors as well. Self-care refers to activities we choose to do to improve our mood, enhance our physical and mental health, and avoid burn-out. Regularly doing self-care reduces stress, and promotes mindfulness and work/life balance. So what, exactly, does self-care mean…