Student Portfolios
To complete their degrees and certificates, BTCM students create portfolios, preferably online like those listed below. These get searched by potential employers, and sometimes students get job offers.
Student Projects
The BTCM program covers online and print documentation skills, as well as technical editing, technical report writing, and grammar, copyediting, and proofreading skills for the professional writer. Students do their projects in HTML, RoboHelp, FrameMaker, and other mainstream applications. Some of these projects are team-based, simulating the development environment in industry. Listed here are some of their projects as selected by BTCM faculty:
- What You Own Home Inventory: User Guide. Developed by Joane Rylander (David McMurrey, instructor) using FrameMaker 10, summer 2010.
- FrameMaker 9 Tutorials. Used by students
in Technical Publishing with FrameMaker (David McMurrey, instructor), these tutorials were upgraded and improved by Jill Brockmann in the BTCM program at ACC. Previous versions have been revised and improved by Jana Owens, Thomas Moore, Pam Renwick, and Jacqueline Pulido.
- Desktop Messenger. Developed by Melanie Horwitz (David McMurrey, instructor) using RoboHelp HTML 7, fall 2008. (To view after you download, you may have to right-click the CHM file and select Properties > Unblock.)
- Mall Kiosk Procedure Manual. Developed by Susan E. Huckle (David McMurrey, instructor) using FrameMaker 7, fall 2006
- Arendar 2005 Report Utility User Manual. Developed by Amy Gelfand (David McMurrey, instructor) using FrameMaker 6, fall 2004
- Virus Protection with Outlook Express. Developed by Susan E. Huckle for IMED 1445 Multimedia 1, Bill Rainey, ACC instructor.
- LISTSERV Use Guide. Developed by Alicia Davis (Scott Mogull, instructor) using Microsoft Word 2002 in ETWR 2476 Book-Length Documents with MS Word, summer 2005
- FilePad Web Help. Developed by Jim Gillespie (David McMurrey, instructor) using direct HTML tags in ETWR 2473 XHTML and CSS for Information Specialists, spring 2003
- Ricoh AP505: Operating Instructions. Developed by Yvonne Borman (David McMurrey, instructor) using FrameMaker 7, spring 2005
- Calendar Wizard Online Helps. Developed by Karen Graziano (David McMurrey, instructor) using RoboHelp 9, fall 2004. (You may need to save this file to your local computer in order to view it.)
- Image Robot User Guide. Developed in FrameMaker 6 by Jim Reidman, student in the Business & Technical Communications program at Austin Community College, fall 2002, David McMurrey, instructor.
- StickyNotes Online Helps. Developed by Terril McAtee (David McMurrey, instructor) using RoboHelp 9, fall 2004. (You may need to save this file to your local computer in order to view it.)
- Arachnophilia 4.0 Online Helps. Developed by Aoife Longmore (Devorah Feldman, instructor) using RoboHelp, fall 2004. (You may need to save this file to your local computer in order to view it.)
- VersaCalc 2.0 Online Helps. Developed by Gene Hirayama (Devorah Feldman, instructor) using RoboHelp, fall 2004. (You may need to save this file to your local computer in order to view it.)
- iTunes 4.2 User Guide. Developed by Eric Olson (David McMurrey, instructor) using FrameMaker 7, summer 2005
- Microsoft HTML Help tutorials. Developed by Ramona Kar, student in the Business & Technical Communications program at Austin Community College, spring 2000, David McMurrey, instructor.
- RoboHELP HTML Help tutorials. Developed by Anita Appanna, student in the Business & Technical Communications program at Austin Community College, summer 2001, David McMurrey, instructor. (You may need to save this file to your local computer in order to view it.)
- Levels of Edit. The famous JPL document by Robert Van Buren and Mary Fran Buehler, scanned and formatted for PDF by Michael Parcher at Austin Community College, spring
1999.
- HTML tutorials, witten in—what else?—HTML, by Linda Davis, Audrey Folkert, Janell Hopkins, Deborah Bolf, Kristina Garana, and Denise Grogan, spring 1998, Dan Price, instructor.
