Austin Community College
Business & Technical Communications Program
Student Projects and Employment
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Take a look at what students in Austin Community College's Business & Technical Communications (BTCM) program are up to:
Student Portfolios and Projects
To complete their certificate or degree, students in the BTCM program develop a print or online portfolio showcasing their work in this program as well as in related courses, suitable for employment-seeking efforts:
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:
- 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
- FrameMaker 7 Tutorials. Used by students
in Book-Length Documents with FrameMaker (David McMurrey, instructor), these tutorials were upgraded and improved by Jana Owens in the BTCM program at ACC. Tutorials now include an introduction to structured authoring in FrameMaker.
- 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.
- FrameMaker Tutorials. Used by students
in Designing Print Documentation (David McMurrey, instructor), these tutorials have been upgraded to current
versions and generally improved by Jana Owens, Thomas Moore, Pam Renwick, and Jacqueline Pulido in the BTCM program at ACC.
- WinZip user guide, written in FrameMaker, written by Thomas Moore, spring 1998, David McMurrey, instructor.
- Microsoft Word book-building tasks, written in Word and converted to PDF, by Sonam Jessani, summer 1998, David McMurrey, instructor.
- 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.
Student Employment
Students in the Austin Community College's Business & Technical Communications (BTCM) are automatically added to an e-mail list of current and former students. Faculty members regularly send out employment and internship notices. (The BTCM program has no formal system of placement.)
Here is a partial list of organizations for which BTCM students have worked or are still working:
IBM Corporation
Dell Computer Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
Motorola, Inc.
National Instruments, Inc.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Applied Materials, Inc.
Solectron Texas
Aerotek Systems
Analysts International Corp.
CTG, Inc.
Broadjump, Inc.
Motive, Inc.
Spherion
Tokyo Electron Limited
Tivoli Systems, Inc.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (formerly Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission)
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
Texas Attorney General's Office
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Texas Legislative Reference Library
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission
Texas Department of Health
Texas Department of Transportation
Texas Department of Information Resources
Texas Association of School Administrator
Texas Medical Association
Internal Revenue Services
City of Austin
Austin Community College
Round Rock Independent School District
Austin Independent School District
University of Texas at Austin
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