Author: Sharon
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Getting It Right
Good studio day. Every pour I made is beautiful. I’m trying to decide what made the difference. Technique is certainly part of it. Today I mainly did dirty cup pours on a canvas loaded with either black or white paint. I made sure to run the cup around the canvas to get the edges covered…
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Identity design
These graphics are part of a prototype project that never launched. I created these in Adobe Fireworks using public domain clip art from OpenClipArt.org.
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Conference journal prototype
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]For this prototype, I combined a typical conference program with “bullet journaling” — a new spin on the classic hand-written daily planner.
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Wearable electronics
Hobbyist electronics, including technologies or concepts like makerspaces, 3D printing, or Arduino prototype boards, are quickly finding their way into the classroom. This personal project is my first step into a new playground.
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Planners
While I’ve more than successfully transitioned from paper books to ebooks, I haven’t been as enthusiastic about giving up paper calendars and to-do lists. Paper lets me create attractive planner pages that I can customize to fit my life. Apps can’t do that.
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Extreme education
This flyer, advertising learning communities, was designed in Adobe Photoshop.
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Alternate reality game pilot
This logo for a fictional university is one of several visual elements I created for an alternate reality game pilot.
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Student engagement patchwork
For a job interview, I was asked to speak on student engagement. The night before the interview I brainstormed the idea of an “engagement quilt,” like an old patchwork quilt with several different pieces that contribute to the design.
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CSI logo
While at Massive Online University, I designed a logo for our now-defunct department, the Center for Support of Instruction. We wanted something that looked futuristic and technical, but also something that talked about inspiration and creativity. The combination of a sci-fi looking font and stylized flame shapes fit the bill.
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SoftChalk lesson
Training faculty to use easy content creation tools like SoftChalk is a delight. It’s fun to watch faculty find new ways to connect students and content.
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Video game class campaign
I designed these advertisements for video game classes using actual game boxes. The ads were successful, if by “successful” you mean students stole the ads off the walls.
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Maslow’s Faire
This Ferris wheel illustrates the journey that takes students from jeans to graduation robes.
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Logo for Teaching-Learning Team
Logo design is always challenging, it’s tough to reduce an entire team (or company) into a visual.
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Second Life administration
One school I worked for began a Second Life project shortly after I joined the staff . . .
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Social networking for former students
I designed a site in Ning that enabled a department to maintain ties with former students, guest speakers, and other interested parties. After reviewing about 60 social media platforms, we settled on Ning due to its ease of use, privacy controls, and Twitter integration. Three years after I left the institution, the site is still…
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Post-training support
Since I’m an experienced face-to-face trainer, I was tapped to develop content for the face-to-face training sessions when the University upgraded its in-house LMS. This web page, which includes a few simple Flash objects, is one example of the post-training support I made available to trainees.
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Blackboard manual
One of my former employers strongly believed in giving printed instruction manuals to faculty. I served as co-author on our Blackboard training manual. The manual incorporated Quality Matters principles. A few pages from the manual are below.
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Report cover
In 2009, I designed a report my institution authored for a prestigious Beltway consulting firm. The professional appearance of the report was praised by our administration and by the client.
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Party invitation
This party invitation was created in about three hours using clipart. It’s a working cootie catcher — you can print a copy and fold it up yourself, the YouTube video at the bottom of the page shows how.
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Quick podcast
After receiving a slew of confused emails from students I ran to my lab and produced this video in under three hours. Quality was not the primary goal — demystifying the content to alleviate student concerns was foremost in my mind.
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Just-in-time Blackboard training
In 2007 when Blackboard 8 released the vastly improved (and vastly different) Grade Center, my college had to train several hundred faculty in a short time span.
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Wiki adoption strategy
One of my assignments at Large Online University involved designing a department wiki and implementing an adoption strategy to encourage department staff to use the wiki.
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Debit cards in Second Life
A Second Life project involved creating a debit card system so students couldn’t use Lindens to complete their assignment.
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TxDLA presentation
Backup Singers: Hitting Productivity High Notes with Helper Apps is a presentation on automation I gave at the Texas Distance Learning Association in 2015. The presentation highlighted ways to automate tasks.
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Setting up your Blackboard class
Several basic Blackboard tasks are covered in this just-in-time tutorial.
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5 ways to use Announcements
How can Announcements help your students?
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Sharing with Google
Google helps you share content with your students using Google Groups and Google+ Communities. Which is better? This presentation explores the differences.
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Post to Twitter using IFTTT and GMail
This short tutorial was inspired by a professor with a new cell phone who wanted an easy way to share articles with students using his Blackboard class. The first part, shown here, describes how to post to Twitter using Gmail using IFTTT. The second part, which is unfortunately not available, teaches how to set up a Twitter…
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AutoHotKey macros for Storyline and PowerPoint
Align objects and change stack order in Storyline and PowerPoint using your number keypad.
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I’ll get you yet, and your little dog too!
Silly video snippet I sometimes use as a sample for training classes, or for testing.
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Automating closed captions
Watch my Mac read a spreadsheet, and my PC enter the numbers into Storyline!
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ClipMate, closed captions, and Storyline
See how I used ClipMate to help relieve some of the drudgery involved in creating closed captions in Storyline.
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Using Flickr images in your instructional content
Need a photo for your lesson? Learn how to find free photos using Flickr, and also learn what can trip you up!
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Flash learning module
I served as technical lead on a partial redesign of a Flash module on the OSI Model.
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ZebraZapps and Van Gogh
Redecorate the artist’s Bedroom in Arles using elements from Van Gogh’s other paintings. (This is a discussion of an in-progress project.)
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Transforming ‘Best Practices’
Read how a clip art professor taught this designer a thing or two about best practices.