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RE: If you had only 1 hour to learn onscreen editing...
Subject:RE: If you had only 1 hour to learn onscreen editing... From:"Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com> To:"'techwr-l List'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:40:55 -0000
1 hour for a presentation is fine, 2 hours is way too long. Regardless of
topic.
Provide enough information and pointers for people to go and learn more if
they want.
Or have I picked this up wrong?
2 hour presentation fills me with dread, how many Powerpoint slides is that?
;-)
Gordon
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Subject: If you had only 1 hour to learn onscreen editing...
... what topics would you want covered?
I've been asked to give a presentation on onscreen editing at next year's
STC conference (http://www.stc.org/55thConf/index.asp), which is great. The
downside is that they are now using 1-hour timeslots, which is too short to
really cover the topic. I can have one time slot for sure, and possibly a
second slot (but probably not). This means I'd only be able to cover 3 or 4
topics in depth, rather than trying to cover a bunch of topics shallowly and
not really saying anything other than generalities.
So I thought I'd talk to you folks to find out what topics you find most
vexing and would most appreciate learning. What are your top three choices
for topics? If nothing immediately comes to mind, please see the table of
contents of my book for inspiration: http://
www.geoff-hart.com/home/onscreen-book.htm#toc
Please send me your top three choices off-list (for simplicity, you could
simply name the three chapters), and I'll summarize to both lists (CEL and
techwr-l) in a couple days. I'm looking for the three things you feel would
most improve your life as a working editor (or peer reviewer if your job is
mainly to write).
If you're in Philadelphia and would like to arrange a more intensive
workshop before or after the conference (late May or ca. June 5), drop me a
line privately and we'll talk.
Thanks!
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ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca / geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com
www.geoff-hart.com
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