APCOMTEC has been promoting a Summer School since 2019. This year, Alexandra Albuquerque had the opportunity to promote the Summer School as an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program.

“An image is worth a thousand words. Why can't you draw me that picture? Or create a five-minute video to replace those manuals?”

I have heard similar sentences over the years. Although a good image may make me think of a thousand words, I could never take a thousand words …

I wanted to attend the Technical Communication UK conference for years. The conference offered a reasonably priced residential fee in a countryside hotel. For a foreigner, this means an affordable conference, with more opportunities than usual to network with local colleagues.

Networking happed over breakfast, lunch, dinner, evenings... and even …

This talk and demonstration was presented at the Product Tank Lisbon meetup to a group of 36 people, including some technical communicators.

The three-hour workshop that I delivered at the Summer School had been accepted as a 90-minute workshop at the TCUK conference. Even after throwing away the screenplay part …

During the last TCeurope Summer School, I taught 12 people how they might use comics to communicate the effects of technology in people.

APCOMTEC (the Portuguese Association for Technical Communication) proposed the Summer School in 2018 as a first step to advance Technical Communication training at ISCAP (a school of …

See What I Mean: how to use comics to communicate ideas
By Kevin Cheng
Rosenfeld Media, 2012
ISBN: 978-1933820279

This is a small book that ultimately got me to dabble with comics professionally, as a means to convey technical information. The book is small enough and practical enough to ever …