About me
Innovative instructional design and training director with 15+ years of experience leading teams who design, create, and deliver effective and enjoyable learning experiences for humans.
All people have immense potential to develop and grow. But in order to fulfill that potential, learning must extend beyond the walls of the classroom and become a way of life. My passion is using everything we know about humans to design experiences that help them become something uniquely better than they were before. I accomplish this by understanding and applying the right technology for the purpose, building creative and resilient teams, and always seeking to understand the people who are meant to live the experiences we design.
My skills
- Leadership, Strategy, Creativity, Team-Building
- eLearning, Interaction Design, Visualization
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, SCORM, xAPI, SQL
- Captivate, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel
- Hmong, Chinese
Portfolio
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Medical Coding Practice
Rather than try to code specific examples to practice, I wrote a script to parse out the entire ICD-10-CM code book so there are 70,000+ possible codes to use in practice. In addition, I wrote a script that would generate the entire book in HTML format and organized them in such a way that you could easily browse through it even on mobile devices.
Beginning Trading Principles and Practice
Our team built a series of activities that help individuals understand principles of trading by providing them a high level of inputs, much more than anything you're likely to see. This activity requires building candles to match a price chart.
Video
We needed a video describing what personalized learning meant and a compelling analogy for our customers. The school bus converting to individual race cars worked really well for educators. I wrote the script and directed the animation.
Infographic
I directed our team in creating this infographic contrasting the role of a teacher as a provider versus a facilitator.
Learner-Controlled Animation
Even though a learner can scrub a video to review, it isn't always the best experience. I designed this dial to control animation for when the learner truly needs to go at their own pace and review transitions.
Custom Drag and Drop Activity
Part of this learning experience involved letting the learner build an ideal classroom. Without logging in you won't get the full features of Save and Restore, but all of the interaction was custom built.
Interactive Conversation
I designed a way for us to get learner input and then provide feedback in the context of an interactive conversation. In this case, the learner is providing information about their beliefs and their practice and then the activity shows where they are out of alignment with a short explanation and animation for each.
Categorization Activity
Categorizing is an important way we make sense of information that is presented. I led our team in designing a Venn diagram categorization activity.
Custom Activity Using Video
Video can be used in many more ways than just passively watching. In this activity, the learner watches the video and then uses the video cues to inform how the information should line up.
Data Visualization
Given a large amount of very dry, but crucial, material to for learners to consume, I developed this data visualization. This allows the learner to discover important connections in the data rather than have to be told.
Custom Activity with Video
This video shows hand signals law enforcement officers might use in an active shooter scenario. The learner, having previously learned the hand signals, constructs the correct message.
Integration with Google Maps
One activity called for drawing a map of the learner's borders. I developed the activity in a way that we could pull in Google Maps as the base and then generate an image for uploading to the instructor.
Game
I developed this game that integrated learning about trans-border threats and showing the impact they have on a country.
Visual Feedback
Feedback is critical for leaners. For this activity, showing as well as telling was important so the learner could see the results.
Delayed Feedback with Video
Sometimes feedback needs to be delayed so the learner has time to formulate their own ideas and then compare with an another answer. This activity gives the learner time to write a response before they can view what one possible answer might be.
Matching Activity with Audio
In this matching activity, the learner listens to the voice component and matches the audio to the word.
Multiple Choice with Feedback
The first activity on the page is a short example of providing feedback for both correct and incorrect responses.
Drag and Drop with Visual Feedback
Another example of letting the learner see the concepts being taught and receiving feedback immediately, based on where they position the camera and lighting in a room for recording video.
Practice Activity
Rather than explain all the steps up front before letting the learner try, this style of practice activity was built to let learning happen while trying from the very beginning. Showing where to click doesn't really help the learner remember, so the steps are given and the learner can determine if they need help by using the Show Me button or keep trying to click the right spot to advance.
Visual Feedback
In this activity, learners can see the placement of the protective equipment as they determine which ones are best suited for the situation.
Matching and Categorization Activity
An example of a matching activity that also involves categorizing for a critical but dull process.
Interactive Conversation
Another example of an interactive conversation with a light-hearted tone for a serious subject. After talking with teachers I learned all of them had dealt with multiple accidents of all kinds in the classroom and it wasn't helping to talk around it. So I just went for the straightforward approach.
Categorization with Reflection
As a follow up to the interactive conversation, this categorizing activity helps the learner formulate a hypothesis, see patterns as they correctly categorize substances, and then reformulate after.
Ordering Activity
In this activity, the learner orders the elements of a regular expression to create a pattern matching a zip code.
School Project
The oldest content in my portfolio here was done for my Masters degree project showing how interaction could be built into a learning experience.
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