Hello Suncoasters,
I’m relocating out of state this month and must pass on the position of president to my trusted vice president. The new chapter leadership will be as follows:
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This Thursday, August 2, the topic of our Suncoast chapter meeting is online simulations and instructional design. John Sopchak and Wendy Passman from Kaplan IT/STT will conduct a presentation and demo of STT Trainer.
For all of you who don’t receive this, I’m forwarding it on. One of the articles is by Mike Murray, who is a member of our chapter (as well as Orlando’s).
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Every year our chapter holds an election process to vote on the new officers for the Suncoast chapter administrative council. This council consists of four elected members: president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. We finally are ready to hold our 2007 elections! However, because there is only one candidate running for each office, there’s [...]
I’ve added a new design for the site to make it easier to find content. The previous site’s page menu was a little hidden; this time the shaded sidebar menu shows child pages relevant to the page you’re viewing. So if you click the Employment button, you see all child pages under Employment, etc. You [...]
We had an impressive turnout from our chapter at the STC Summit. I learned that in fact we had 17 members attend. Names of those who attended are below.
In our last survey, you said that job listings were the most important value of the STC. Just to let you know, there are a couple of new job features on the website. If you click the Employment button, you’ll see some subpages on the right, described as follows:
If you missed the STC Conference, you can go check out the PowerPoint slides of most of the presentations here: www.stc.org/54thConf/sessions/sessionMaterials01.asp.
For our September 6 chapter meeting, Jack Molisani will be presenting on the “Top 10 Mistakes Writers Make Looking for Work.”
Our August 2 chapter meeting will cover online simulations and instructional design. Specifically, John Sopchak and Wendy Passman from Kaplan IT/STT will conduct a presentation and demo of STT Trainer. [Note: Martha Schrader, a member in our chapter, tells me that this software, though expensive, is totally mind-blowing.]