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Archive of 2009 training courses
28 November
Introduction to InDesign for Editors (PC)
with Noè Harsel
InDesign is the publishing industry standard for desktop publishing. The Society of Editors invites you to build your understanding of this program with an interactive Introduction to InDesign.
With the digitisation of the industry, more and more editors are required to be versatile in their approach to editing. A working knowledge of InDesign will help editors further market themselves by being able to edit manuscripts up to final production and layout stage. Covering a range of tasks and activities, you will gain a broader understanding of how the program works and what it can do for you, as well as be able to navigate text pages, edit text and set styles. This course will enable you to have a basic working knowledge of InDesign.
This course is ideal for people with a basic grounding in computer skills, who would like to explore desktop publishing and layout.
Course outline
Participants will be able to perform the following on completion of this course.
- Create an InDesign document
- Use the Toolbar and Palettes
- Understand the basics of typography, fonts, kerning and leading
- Make text changes
- Use Story-Editor and Style Sheets
- Adjust Type and Page Preferences
- Work with multiple document pages and InDesign files
- Use Master Pages
- Import images, add colours and change colours
IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT THIS COURSE
- Basic computer literacy is required for this course, but no previous desktop publishing experience is needed. Knowledge of other desktop publishing or graphics programs will be an advantage.
- This course uses a PC platform.
- Students are invited to bring along general text files and images (files should be saved as .doc, .txt, .pdf, .jpeg, .tif) to create your own InDesign document (e.g. flyer, poster, business cards etc.) using your own content. General purpose material will also be supplied if you do not wish to bring your own.
- If you would like to save any documents you create in this course, please bring along a memory stick or flash drive (or equivalent).
- Places are strictly limited for this course.
Noè Harsel has extensive experience in publication production, writing and editing for both print and web media. She has taught InDesign and publishing at RMIT University, LaTrobe University and Swinburne University.
When: Saturday, 28 November 2009, 9.30 am to 4 pm
Where: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Cost: Members $160, non-members $210
Enquiries:
21 November
** This course is now fully booked **
Advanced Microsoft Word for Editors
with Emma Koch
Much of an editor's job involves repetitive work, especially as the technological requirements of the role continue to become more complex. Utilising features available in Microsoft Word to automate tasks improves both efficiency and accuracy. This course focuses on the ways in which templates, styles and formatting, and macros can assist editors to reduce repetitive tasks. At the end of the course, editors should be able to create their own templates, styles and customised macros.
Note: This is an advanced Word course for PCs and assumes a reasonable proficiency in MS Word. The course is aimed at editors who are looking to further develop their Word skills.
Topics covered
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Templates
What is a template?
Creating templates
Attaching existing templates
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Styles and formatting
What is the difference between styles and formatting?
Viewing styles
Creating styles
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Macros
What is a macro?
Creating and editing macros
Some useful macros for editors
Emma Koch developed an interest in technical support for editors through her various roles at Lonely Planet. She supported the languages unit, developing templates and macros to suit the requirements of working with scripts and special fonts. She has continued to use this knowledge in her various roles at the University of Melbourne and has a particular interest in improving efficiency through reducing the need for repetitive tasks when using Microsoft Word.
When: Saturday, 21 November 2009, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Cost: Members $110, non-members $160
Enquiries:
Back by popular demand!
21 November
Proofreading Refresher for Editors
with Glenys Osborne
Due to a high level of interest, we are running another session of this course.
Revisit the general principles, finer points and common traps of proofreading. Strengthen your proofreading muscle with this one-day course combining instruction, discussion and practice on a range of proofreading tasks.
This course is ideal for people who want to boost their confidence and their proofreading skills. Perfect if you’re looking for a refresher combined with some hands-on practice.
Topics covered include:
- the ergonomics of proofreading
- how to read when proofreading
- marking proofs
- blind reading, reading against copy and reading with an editorial eye
- what to check
- reading for consistency
- homonyms and the proofreader
- alerting the editor to issues of grammar, syntax and punctuation
- proofreading quotations and reference lists
- using stylesheets and house styles
- using dictionaries and word-break books
- addressing layout issues
- marking cross-references
- what to watch for
- when to question word choice.
Students will need:
- notebook for taking notes
- red and blue pens
- pencil (plus pencil sharpener if required)
- liquid paper
- eraser
Glenys Osborne spent the first years of her working life as a proofreader in typesetting tradehouses. She later became managing editor at Macmillan Education and then at Thomson Learning (now Cengage). She currently works as a freelance editor and has won various awards for fiction writing. She teaches editing in RMIT’s MA in Communications course and in the CAE’s Professional Writing and Editing course.
When: Saturday, 21 November 2009, 10 am to 4 pm
Where: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Cost: Members $130, non-members $180
Enquiries: <>
24 October 2009
Building and Maintaining an Online Presence: An Introductory Course
with Michael Cairns
With the abundance of free web technologies to promote yourself and your business online, it is often hard to determine which ones will offer you the simplest and most effective platform for sharing your information. This course will provide you with a discussion about the pros and cons of some of the web technologies available. It is an introductory course for people who wish to build their own website.
The focus of the course will be on simple implementation and ongoing management. Students will begin to build their website using some of the free technologies available and gain some insight into how these technologies can be used together to continue building and developing their online presence.
Topics covered include:
- What’s out there and is it right for you?
- Understanding the different technologies and their specific purposes
- Identifying which medium best suits your needs
- Time constraints and commitment – how this affects your website
- What to think about when building a website
- Selling yourself
- Introduction to WordPress
- Getting started on building your own website
- Troubleshooting
Prerequisites for this course
It is expected that students will have a level of experience and confidence in using the web and computers. It is not required that students have prior web design knowledge. This is a basic introductory course. However, by enrolling in this course, it is expected that the student has thought about the function of his or her website, be it professional or personal.
Because of the time constraints, NO moving (Flash or GIF) images, forms or complex components will be taught. Students should be able to complete a website structure and at least one page within class time.
Students will need
- any relevant images or branding which they would like to incorporate into their website in a digital format
- notepaper and pen
- USB stick to transfer relevant files
About the Trainer
Michael Cairns runs his own web development business, working with a variety of clients from small publishers and artists to ASX-listed companies. He is interested in maximising the opportunities provided by Open Source web technologies, social media and online publishing.
When: Saturday, 24 October 2009, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Cost: Members $150, non-members $200
Enquiries:
17 October 2009
Introduction to InDesign for Macs with Noè Harsel
InDesign is the publishing industry standard for desktop publishing. The Society of Editors invites you to build your understanding of this program with an interactive Introduction to InDesign.
With the digitisation of the industry, more and more editors are required to be versatile in their approach to editing. A working knowledge of InDesign will help editors further market themselves by being able to edit manuscripts up to final production and layout stage. Covering a range of tasks and activities, you will gain a broader understanding of how the program works and what it can do for you, as well as be able to navigate text pages, edit text and set styles. This course will enable you to have a basic working knowledge of InDesign.
This course is ideal for people with a basic grounding in computer skills, who would like to explore desktop publishing and layout.
Course outline
Participants will be able to perform the following on completion of this course.
- Create an InDesign document
- Use the Toolbar and Palettes
- Understand the basics of typography, fonts, kerning and leading
- Make text changes
- Use Story-Editor and Style Sheets
- Adjust Type and Page Preferences
- Work with multiple document pages and InDesign files
- Use Master Pages
- Import images, add colours and change colours
Important notes about this course
- Basic computer literacy is required for this course, but no previous desktop publishing experience is needed. Knowledge of other desktop publishing or graphics programs will be an advantage.
- This course uses a Mac platform. A separate PC course will be run in November 2009.
- Students are invited to bring along general text files and images (files should be saved as .doc, .txt, .pdf, .jpeg, .tif) to create your own InDesign document (e.g. flyer, poster, business cards etc.) using your own content. General purpose material will also be supplied if you do not wish to bring your own.
- If you would like to save any documents you create in this course, please bring along a memory stick or flash drive (or equivalent).
- Places are strictly limited for this course.
Noè Harsel has extensive experience in publication production, writing and editing for both print and web media. She has taught InDesign and publishing at RMIT University, LaTrobe University and Swinburne University.
When: Saturday, 17 October 2009, 9.30 a.m. to 4pm
Where: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Cost: Members $160, non-members $210
Enquiries:
18 July
**** This course is now fully booked ****
Proofreading Refresher for Editors with Glenys Osborne
Revisit the general principles, finer points and common traps of proofreading. Strengthen your proofreading muscle with this one-day course combining instruction, discussion and practice on a range of proofreading tasks.
This course is ideal for people who want to boost their confidence and their proofreading skills. Perfect if you’re looking for a refresher combined with some hands-on practice.
Topics covered include:
- the ergonomics of proofreading
- how to read when proofreading
- marking proofs
- blind reading, reading against copy and reading with an editorial eye
- what to check
- reading for consistency
- homonyms and the proofreader
- alerting the editor to issues of grammar, syntax and punctuation
- proofreading quotations and reference lists
- using stylesheets and house styles
- using dictionaries and word-break books
- addressing layout issues
- marking cross-references
- what to watch for
- when to question word choice.
Students will need
- notebook for taking notes
- red and blue pens
- pencil (plus pencil sharpener if required)
- liquid paper
- eraser
Glenys Osborne spent the first years of her working life as a proofreader in typesetting tradehouses. She later became managing editor at Macmillan Education and then at Thomson Learning (now Cengage). She currently works as a freelance editor and has won various awards for fiction writing. She teaches editing in RMIT’s MA in Communications course and in the CAE’s Professional Writing and Editing course.
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Venue: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Cost: Members $130, non-members $180
23 May 2009
Introduction to InDesign for Editors (PC) with Noè Harsel
*** This session is fully booked ***
Learn how to navigate InDesign with confidence as well as create your own documents on a PC platform.
Please note: Basic computer literacy is required. Knowledge of other desktop publishing programs is an advantage, but not required.
Time: 9.30 am - 4 pm
Cost: Members $160, non-members $210
23 May 2009
Editing Foreign Languages with Emma Koch (new for 2009!)
*** This session is fully booked ***
Scattered by script? Troubled by translits? Perplexed by pinyin? If these terms mean nothing to you then it’s time to learn to love languages. This short course provides editors with the tools to make informed judgements about unfamiliar languages, identify potential problems and avoid introducing errors. Get experience and gain confidence working with different foreign languages, transliterations systems, script and tonal languages.Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Cost: Members $135, non-members $185
21 May 2009
Grammar Refresher (Warrnambool)
with Glenys Osborne
Do you know a dangling modifier when you see one? Do you hyphenate your compounds with confidence? Are your commas in the right places? Do you capitalise your nouns and titles consistently? Are your lists parallel? Do you know when to use who and whom, which and that, or I, me and myself?
If not, a grammar refresher may be just what you need.
This one-day workshop covers grammar basics, terminology, punctuation, common traps and effective solutions. It is ideal for people who work with words and who perhaps know what to do when writing or editing, but not why to do it.
Editing Grammar consists of class instruction, individual and group exercises, and class discussion. Participants are encouraged to bring along any grammatical questions, problems and examples they wish to discuss.
Glenys Osborne is a freelance editor who teaches editing in RMIT’s MA in Communications course and in the CAE’s Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing course. She was formerly a managing editor at Macmillan Education and at Thomson Learning (now Cengage). She has won various awards for fiction writing and has recently become fiction editor of the creative journal Etchings.
Date: Thursday 21 May 2009, 10am to 4pm
Location: The Regal, 163-165 Timor St, Warrnambool
Cost: $150 for members and $200 for non-members
Enquiries:
21 March 2009
Introduction to InDesign (Mac)
with Noè Harsel
InDesign is the publishing industry standard for desktop publishing. The Society of Editors invites you to build your understanding of this program with an interactive Introduction to InDesign.
With the digitisation of the industry, more and more editors are required to be versatile in their approach to editing. A working knowledge of InDesign will help editors further market themselves by being able to edit manuscripts up to final production and layout stage. Covering a range of tasks and activities, you will gain a broader understanding of how the program works and what it can do for you, as well as be able to navigate text pages, edit text and set styles. This course will enable you to have a basic working knowledge of InDesign.
This course is ideal for people with a basic grounding in computer skills, who would like to explore desktop publishing and layout.
Course outline
Participants will be able to perform the following on completion of this course.
- Create an InDesign document
- Use the Toolbar and Palettes
- Understand the basics of typography, fonts, kerning and leading
- Make text changes
- Use Story-Editor and Style Sheets
- Adjust Type and Page Preferences
- Work with multiple document pages and InDesign files
- Use Master Pages
- Import images, add colours and change colours
IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT THIS COURSE
- Basic computer literacy is required for this course, but no previous desktop publishing experience is needed. Knowledge of other desktop publishing or graphics programs will be an advantage.
- This course uses a Mac platform. A separate PC course will be run in May 2009.
- Students are invited to bring along general text files and images (files should be saved as .doc, .txt, .pdf, .jpeg, .tif) to create your own InDesign document (e.g. flyer, poster, business cards etc) using your own content. General purpose material will also be supplied if you do not wish to bring your own.
- If you would like to save any documents you create in this course, please bring along a memory stick or flash drive (or equivalent).
- Places are strictly limited for this course. This course will book out.
Noè Harsel has extensive experience in publication production, writing and editing for both print and web media. She has taught InDesign and publishing at RMIT University, LaTrobe University and Swinburne University.
When: Saturday, 21 March 2009, 9.30 am to 4 pm
Where: CAE, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Cost: Members $160, non-members $210