KMN DESIGN
Instructional Design & Elearning Experience (EdTech)
I have over a decade of instructional design experience within a variety of educational environments, from K-12, community colleges, to major universities. In 2008, I left my full-time teaching position to pursue an educational career integrating technology and learning. Since graduating from James Madison University with a Master’s degree in Educational Technology, I have trained faculty as well as students on general 21st century technology skills as well as specific 21st century courses, including online pedagogy, learning management systems, collaborative software, assessment tools, digital gradebooks, authentic assessments, and critical analysis. I have also developed numerous online courses for local colleges working directly with online faculty and students. As a Technology Integration Specialist, I continued to developed my technology integration skills. In this position, I worked with the Curriculum Director, administration, and teachers assisting in the implementation and management of numerous technologies while instructing several high school technology courses. Recently I eagerly returned to the classroom, but life has created an opportunity for change and I am most excited at the future challenges ahead.
Certifications:
Quality Matters: Higher Ed. - Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)
Quality Matters: Higher Ed. - Designing Your Online Course (DYOC)
Google: Certified Educator 1
Quality Matters: Higher Ed. - Designing Your Online Course (DYOC)
Google: Certified Educator 1
Instructional Design Skills
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Communicator
A modern educator with professional communication skills, established by over ten years of teaching experience, along with several years of higher education instructional design practice.
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My passion is to create the best modern educational environments through exposure to engaging resources, best practices, advanced analytics, and brilliant scholars.
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Learning Theory Skills
Explorer
Academically, I have studied several adult learning and training theories (ADDIE, SAM, SAMR, Kemp ISD) and I use these theories when designing all lessons, classes, and courses.
However, I am most influenced by Mayer's principles of multimedia learning and Vygotsky's educational theory.
- Mayer appears to be the influential voice in a multimedia educational world, the modern experience. His works dominated my design training and continue to dictate many in the field.
- Vygotsky saw education as, developing the resources and skills needed to assist learners with achieving what cannot be achieved alone. It is with technology that I view Vygotsky’s theory as being realized, with technology the process of learning can become more efficient, personalized, and maximized.
Mayer's Principles:
- Coherence Principle – People learn better when extraneous words, pictures and sounds are excluded rather than included.
- Signaling Principle – People learn better when cues that highlight the organization of the essential material are added.
- Redundancy Principle – People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, narration and on-screen text.
- Spatial Contiguity Principle – People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented near rather than far from each other on the page or screen.
- Temporal Contiguity Principle – People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively.
- Segmenting Principle – People learn better from a multimedia lesson is presented in user-paced segments rather than as a continuous unit.
- Pre-training Principle – People learn better from a multimedia lesson when they know the names and characteristics of the main concepts.
- Modality Principle – People learn better from graphics and narrations than from animation and on-screen text.
- Multimedia Principle – People learn better from words and pictures than from words alone.
- Personalization Principle – People learn better from multimedia lessons when words are in conversational style rather than formal style.
- Voice Principle – People learn better when the narration in multimedia lessons is spoken in a friendly human voice rather than a machine voice.
- Image Principle – People do not necessarily learn better from a multimedia lesson when the speaker’s image is added to the screen.
Technical Writing Skills
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Regarding Technical Writing, I have contributed to the development of numerous courses. Although, I always prefer to have established subject matter to work from, I have successfully guided a diverse number of subject matter experts to condense and organize their knowledge into content for modern learning platforms.
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Successful Technical Writing stems from the right habits and guiding all the parties through the development, implementation, and analysis process.
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Management Skills
Builder
My experience as a designer and a teacher provide evidence of superior management skills. I have developed over 25 comprehensive courses, often with limited resources and timelines. In addition to these courses, I have assisted with the development of several projects, and the advising of several teams.
Information Technology Skills
Administrator
For the past decade, I have been exposed to, worked with, and troubleshot numerous educational and learning software.
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As a designer and teacher, I was able to develop numerous technology skills that allowed for successful administration of 21st century classrooms and training environments. |
Instructional Design Experience
Qualified
I am confident that my skills, experiences, and online knowledge will enable me to fulfill the demanding role of various instructional design and modern education positions.
PRESENTATION DESIGNER...‘PowerPoint Refurbisher’
PowerPoint
•Designed several PowerPoint presentations
•Designed several PowerPoint presentations
As a graduate student at James Madison University, I designed several PowerPoint presentations for my peers and even some faculty members. I often used the term PowerPoint ‘Refurbisher’ as I was called upon to assist with either the aesthetics or functionality of a presentation.
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I discovered that PowerPoint allowed for rapid development of several significant design resources including icons, simple graphics, page layouts, and even comprehensive packets. I developed great skill with PowerPoint and view these skills as tremendous assets to any design project.
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TMW Systems
- Designed the TMW Systems TransForum2009 PowerPoint Presentation
This was my first professional design experience. It was tossed to me by a Graphic Designer, unable to fulfill the request. Within a limited time frame, I successfully created a 111 slide presentation that ran continuously at the 2009 TransForum conference on several projection screens.
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As a project, I was provided with a 111 page PowerPoint presentation with text, but without a theme and very few images. The only requirements were to maintain text, incorporate the corporate logos (TRANSFORUM2009), animate transitions as much as possible without becoming too juvenile, and automated the presentation so that it would run continuously. With pragmatic instructional design choices I do believe addressed the product, the audience, and the medium's restrictions. |
GRADUATE ASSISTANT
College of Education, James Madison University - Harrisonburg, Virginia
- TK20 Assessment and Accreditation Software Administrator role - tk20.jmu.edu
- Assisted with the development of TK20 support and training resources for the College of Education Student Teaching Program - Tk20 (now watermark)
- Created TK20 software assessment rubrics for the Student Teaching evaluations
- Maintained TK20 technology support of University Supervisors, Cooperating Teachers, and Student Teachers
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As a Graduate assistant I began to develop my design style, of course influence initially by the professors I was working with and studying under. In these examples, I was tasked identifying consistent technology issues within Student Teaching Program. All formatting, colors, and content were suggested, reviewed, revised, and approved by the Implementation Committee. Although a decade later, log-in issues are not near an issue as they one were, these images represents my initial development, but also the lessons of collaboration, consistency in design, and communication needed to fully maximize technology.
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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
Stark State College - North Canton, Ohio
Assisted with the development of the online education department (eStarkState).
Assisted with the development of the online education department (eStarkState).
- Assisted with the administration of the ANGEL Learning Management System for the entire college
- Led ANGEL Learning Management System training for students and faculty - online and classroom
- Created resources (synchronous/asynchronous) for instructors and student orientations
- Developed and administered training courses:
ANGEL Learning Management System,
ANGEL Training, Start-up Week ‘Boot Camp’,
Online Assessments,
Online Gradebook,
Online Student Expectations,
Online Student Engagement
Rich Media
ANGEL Training, Start-up Week ‘Boot Camp’,
Online Assessments,
Online Gradebook,
Online Student Expectations,
Online Student Engagement
Rich Media
- Provided ANGEL Learning Management System technical support (24/7)
- Utilized customer service software and support ticketing system Zendesk
- Collaborated with subject matter experts in the development of numerous online and blended courses
- Conducted analysis of training and online courses to ensure authentic learning and assessment
- Created resources (synchronous/asynchronous) for instructors and student orientation
- Collaborated with subject matter experts with the development of numerous courses
- Conducted analysis of training and courses to ensure authentic assessment
- Wimba Collaborative Learning Software Administrator and Trainer
- Respondus Assessment Tools Administrator and Trainer
- Attended Quality Matters Professional Development Workshop, Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR)
- Attended the 2011 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference – Madison, Wisconsin
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It was in my role as an Instructional Designer at Stark State that began to develop not only a comfort with technology, but also my own aesthetics. I pride my instructional designer materials as clean and concise. Example Resource:
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Kind words towards efforts as an Instructional Designer at Stark State College:
Stark State College abbreviated presentation
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Stark State College Example Training Resource:
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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DESIGNER
College of Public Health, Kent State University - Kent, Ohio
Assisted with the administration of the Blackboard Learn Learning Management System and online education principles for the recently established Kent State University College of Public Health- learn.kent.edu.
Assisted with the administration of the Blackboard Learn Learning Management System and online education principles for the recently established Kent State University College of Public Health- learn.kent.edu.
- Work in partnership (team of three) to meet the educational technology needs of the college’s administration, faculty and staff
- Assisted with the orientation and training of online instructors
- Developed orientation packet for online instructors
- Collaborated with subject matter experts with the development of online courses:
Environmental Health Sciences (PH30006),
Epidemiology (PH20001),
Communicable Diseases (PH30012),
Public Health Policy and Decision Making (PH30033)
Epidemiology (PH20001),
Communicable Diseases (PH30012),
Public Health Policy and Decision Making (PH30033)
- Provided online course support for:
Environmental Health Sciences (PH30006),
Epidemiology (PH20001),
Communicable Diseases (PH30012),
Public Health Policy and Decision Making (PH30033)
Epidemiology (PH20001),
Communicable Diseases (PH30012),
Public Health Policy and Decision Making (PH30033)
- Utilized iSpring E-Learning Software to create engaging online content
- Contributed to the identification and development of multimedia resources
- Contributed to the identification of online accommodations strategies (ADA)
- Attended Quality Matters Professional Development Workshop, Designing Your Online Course (DYOC)
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With the College of Public Health being a new college the demand for training of new faculty was immense. I developed an orientation packet for online instructors to add to the training resources, ensure college consistency, provide JIT resource, and provide an initial contact for support. The College mandated certain consistency through the development and instruction of online courses.
Example Resource:
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Kent State College of Public Health abbreviated presentation
Other Academic Presentations
Stow-Munroe Falls abbreviated presentation
HIGH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY TEACHER
Sandy Valley High School - Sandy Valley Local Schools - Magnolia, Ohio
Incorporated technology into the classroom through training and collaboration, while administering the district learning analytics system and teaching technology courses.
Incorporated technology into the classroom through training and collaboration, while administering the district learning analytics system and teaching technology courses.
- Instructed Digital Technologies course: Google Educational Applications
- Instructed 21st Century Skills course: Multimedia Applications
- Instructed Introduction to Computer Programming course: Code.org and Codecademy
- Utilized Schoology Learning Management System to create a blended/flipped learning environment
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It was as a Technology Teacher that I developed many of the skills that will assist me in any technology position. Not only did I create three fully immersed Schoology supported technology classes, but it also allowed me to administered another learning management system. I developed and instructed three classes, Google Applications, multi-media, and programming. The greatest experience I gained at this position was the exposure to the entire k-12 perspective and the challenges at each of those levels.
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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION SPECIALIST
Sandy Valley Local Schools - Magnolia, Ohio
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As a district Technology Integration Specialist, my primary responsibility was administering the adaptive and analytics software Renaissance Learning.
Renaissance Learning STAR Reports I often ran and assisted with processing.
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PBS Western Reserve - Kent, Ohio
Responsible for developing and delivering professional development and resources for educators, students, and general community members.
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August 5-6, 2019
- Attended: Google Certification Training
- Presented: NETILO Meeting
- Presented: Nordonia Back to School Professional Development Day (Connect with a wealth of educational services and resources from PBS Western Reserve)
- Attended: Project Invent with Connie Liu and Jason Hubbard (Makey Makey)
- Attended: Grow with Google Livestream - Google Holiday Live Stream - Small Business
- Presented: Learning Innovations Conference, Kent State University (Connect with a wealth of educational services and resources from PBS Western Reserve)
- Presented: NETILO Meeting
- Presented: Stark ESC – Social Studies Lead Teachers Meeting (Connect with a wealth of educational services and resources from PBS Western Reserve)
- Training: Makey Makey Invention Literacy Workshop
- Attended & Presented: OETC20 (Exploring Scientific Concepts Through Historical Events, A Cross-Curricular Approach)
- Presented: Digital Learning Day (Invention Literacy (Makers & Makerspaces))
- Training: Google Basics and Beyond