RE: Technical writers and multimedia?

["Andrew Dugas" <dugas -at- intalio -dot- com>]

Are we talking tech doc or training materials???

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> From: bounce-techwr-l-88324 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-88324 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of 
> Hart, Geoff
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:00 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Technical writers and multimedia?
> 
> 
> 
> David McMurrey teaches <<...technical-writing courses at 
> Austin Community
> College. In trying to upgrade our courses, we're considering 
> a course that
> shows people how to develop simple multimedia training/tutorials with
> applications like Premiere, Real products, SnagIt, etc. But 
> how much are
> technical writers involved in producing multimedia-based user 
> documents?>>
> 
> I'm deeply involved in producing multimedia, from the 
> scriptwriting and
> storyboarding stages right through to the prototyping and 
> editing stages.
> We've only done a couple projects thus far, but expect them to become
> increasingly common in the future. One important note, 
> though: these are not
> "multimedia documents" in the user manual sense, but rather standalone
> instructional materials.
>  


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