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In the second half of this course, I have again been working to improve my self-regulated learning by improving my practice of help-seeking behaviors. While–as I noted in my last post–I did not make quite as much progress in the first half of the course as I would have liked, I have had much moreContinue reading “Blog Post 3 – TECM 5191”

In the first half of this course, I’ve been working to improve my self-regulated learning by improving my practice of help-seeking behaviors. My original plan, as stated in my first blog post, was to reach out reach out to my mother for assistance, as I thought her general knowledge of communications skills would be veryContinue reading “Blog Post 2 – TECM 5191”

In my self-regulated learning self-assessment, I scored 5.0 in interest, 4.0 in planning, 3.75 in elaborating, and 3.5 in help seeking. As the above results show my lowest-scoring area was help-seeking; on reflection, this isn’t exactly a shock to me. My style of getting things done–pretty much since I learned how to write papers onContinue reading “Blog Post 1 – TECM 5191”

Looking back on my personal experience learning about content strategy throughout this course, I find that I’ve learned many lessons that will advance my career goals in teaching technical communication. I feel that what was most meaningful for me in what I have learned was actually my initial experience with starting to learn about contentContinue reading “Blog Post Six – TECM 5200”

Much of the information that I engaged with this week and found surprising came from the interview with Kevin P. Nichols, author of the book “Enterprise Content Strategy: A Project Guide.” His journey into content strategy is an interesting one, and his various stories about how he applies content strategy in his everyday work haveContinue reading “Blog Post Four – TECM 5200”

Moving on to the course material surrounding the definition phase of content strategy, I found a few new interesting concepts – mainly in the description of building and delivering a framework document. I find that I really like the overall structure of the framework document presented in the text; it is very clear in howContinue reading “Blog Post Three – TECM 5200”

Moving on to the course material surrounding the assessment phase of content strategy, I found a few new things that surprised me – primarily, again, about the scale of the work that is performed in this field. From lengthy stakeholder interviews to exhaustive content inventories and audits, it is becoming ever clearer to me thatContinue reading “Blog Post Two – TECM 5200”

In total honesty, much of the material in the first couple of weeks of content here surprised me. Much of what I’ve learned thus far in my academic career has been more about making “good content” as the course text notes, without much of a focus on wider content strategy. I think what surprised meContinue reading “Blog Post One – TECM 5200”