Pull out your calendars!

The STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter's 2009 Conference - Visualizing Communication - will be held March 27 and 28 at Penn State University - Great Valley Campus.

And we are very pleased to announce that we will be joined this year by the STC Instructional Design & Learning SIG, as this event will be a regional conference for their members as well. The School of Graduate Professional Studies at Penn State Great Valley has also signed up as a Supporting Organization.

And this year we have something new to offer: the two Instructional Design Workshops on March 27, and the Instructional Design presentation session track (four presentations in all) on March 28 will be available via webcast!

Conference Looks at Leveraging Visual Communication

Find out how to use visual communication to improve the effectiveness of your technical documentation and instructional material at this year’s version of our exciting, award-winning Conference!

Our keynote speaker, the internationally acclaimed expert on visual communications Jean-luc Dumont, will kick things off by presenting his simple but solid guiding principles for designing visually effective communication. We're honored to welcome Jean-luc Dumont and proud to help debut his new book: Trees, maps, and theorems - Effective communication for rational minds.

Following the keynote will be more than a dozen presentations over four sessions covering areas such as:

- Career development

- Instructional design and e-Learning development

- Content management

- Writing and design skills improvement

Of course, there will be ample opportunity to network, catch up with old friends, and make new ones.

Workshops Examine Visual Communication, Instructional Design

This year we’ve doubled our workshop offerings, with Jean-luc Dumont and instructional design/E-Learning expert Jane Smith both leading two half-day workshops.

Extend your visual communication and IDL IQ as Jean-luc and Jane introduce key concepts, and then facilitate hands-on exploration of those concepts through case studies and group exercises.

Dates and Times

Workshops:

Friday, March 27, 2009
Morning sessions: 8 am to noon
Afternoon sessions: 1 to 5 pm

Conference:

Saturday, March 28, 2009
8 am to 5 pm

Location

The Conference Center at Penn State Great Valley
30 E. Swedesford Road
Malvern, PA 19355

Webcast information to be available shortly on the Conference website.
Look for more details about the STC 2009 Workshops and Conference on www.stcpmc.org.
Or contact us directly: conference@stcpmc.org.

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