3. CAP Applied Institute - April 2005 - Photos

• A response to the New UBS Publishing Economy
  • 1. The primary audience
    • The primary audience for this 2 week course is not so much the group of participants actually in attendance, but the field staff of the 700+ Bible project teams who need instruction and technical support back home.
  • 2. One way of looking at the two week thrust is:
    • Week 1: Pedagogical Focus: best teaching practices (teaching to the level of the end-user – the translator, TO, typesetter, editor, etc.)
    • Week 2: Technical Focus: best use (most expert use) of Paratext and its tools (drive Paratext into the ground, explore every nook and cranny you can – as you take your texts – whether beginning at level 1, 2 or 3, through to publishing draft stage) – there will be "experts" standing around only too ready to help you do this :^)
  • 3. Another way of looking at it is:
    • Week 1: How to introduce a discrete set of introductory skills to a defined set of audiences (translators, TC's, Translation Editors, Typesetters, Publishing Editors, Archivers)
    • Week 2: An opportunity to explore/experiment/learn/break/implement Paratext and its tools as one takes live texts from their current status, to publishing draft stage(PDF).
  • 4. And another viewpoint:
    • Week 1: Appealing to the teacher in each participant
    • Week 2: Appealing to the technical expert in each participant
  • 5. Finally
    • Week 1: What do the endusers need to know to do their work effectively? (This is a pedagogical question first, and a technical question second. This is about responding effectively to a teaching opportunity in the field.)
    • Week 2: What does the TO/CAP Expert need to do Technically to provide support and help when a project breaks? (This is a technical question first, and a pedagogical question second.) This is about a technical opportunity to resolve a problem, to fix something that is broken, or to provide a bridge between stages in the publishing life-cycle, or to resolve a technical or procedural log-jam in a project.)

The_Right_Tools_for_the_Task.doc
The Toronto Star Article