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Designing with Accessibility in Mind
This learning experience demonstrates designing content with accessibility in mind, highlighting how color palettes impact access to learning. Built using Articulate Rise 360 Microlearning Platform and Adobe Creative Cloud.
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Designing for Security Awareness
This learning experience began originally as a homework assignment for graduate school, however, I’ve been updating the content due to the topic’s importance. The latest update is a newer quiz developed by Google. Built using Adobe Creative Cloud, and Articulate360 Rise.
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Interactive Infographic Design
This project was created using Articulate Storyline 360, with Adobe Creative Cloud elements.
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Legacy Projects
Graduation Project
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Instructional Design Brief
Project Title: Writing Instruction for Computer Science Majors
Target Audience: Junior-level undergraduate Computer Science students; also applicable to graduate-level CS courses.
Rationale:
Some students have difficulty with basic writing abilities, including paragraph structures, thesis development, and integrating research. This module supplements the Pro-Seminar Writing Lab (Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement) to reinforce these skills interactively without adding class time.
Objectives:
- Identify tools for organizing ideas for academic writing.
- Explain topic sentence components and their relation to the thesis.
- Describe supporting paragraph elements relative to the thesis.
- Define thesis statement properties and their role in academic writing.
Instructional Strategies:
Behaviorist approaches guide practice and skill refinement, informed by Gagné’s Nine Events and Clark & Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Instruction.
Activities / Learning Exercises:
- Analyze sample paragraphs for topic sentences, supporting details, and thesis alignment.
- Draft paragraphs with guided prompts, followed by self-review and interactive feedback.
- Use prewriting tools to structure assignments effectively.
Assessment:
- Knowledge checks embedded in the module.
- Pre- and post-instruction assessments via multiple-choice and true/false items (Google Form).
Graduate Professional Client Project
Instructional Design Brief
Project Title
Writing with Authority – Writing Seminar
Target Audience
Military officers advancing in rank, meeting higher-education–level writing requirements.
Rationale
Developing effective writing skills opens more avenues of communication with a variety of individuals for a variety of purposes, both in writing and in person.
These skills help officers express their thoughts on personal-interest topics and required subjects throughout their military and professional careers, and they are essential for meeting CGSC professional writing standards as officers advance.
Learning Objectives
- Write using the proper essay structure while applying the CGSC standards for effective writing.
- Use the writing process to formulate a proper thesis statement.
- Use effective techniques to garner the reader’s attention.
- Apply the argumentative writing process to support an essay with authority.
Instructional Strategies
- Storyboarded lesson flow to sequence concept introduction, modeling, and practice.
- Embedded ungraded knowledge checks to give officers quick feedback without high stakes.
Activities / Learning Exercises
- Scenario-based prompts tied to officers’ real writing tasks.
- Short knowledge checks at key decision points in the storyboard.
Assessment / Metrics (proposed)
- Knowledge checks built into the storyboard.
- Additional suggested metrics documented in slide notes to satisfy course requirements, while the client’s internal team retained ownership of formal evaluation.
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