Here are some of my favorite projects. I hope you enjoy perusing them as much as I did making them.
Records Retention
This course is a favorite of mine. It's a compliance course on Records Retention policies and procedures created with Articulate Storyline. Compliance courses can be pretty dry and difficult to maintain engagement. To keep the attention of the audience, I used the brighter colors of the client's brand and included scenarios to not only engage the learner, but explain why a records retention policy is important. I also enjoy adding unexpected elements (like the dog) to catch the attention of the learner. This one is also a favorite since I was able to use my mom and son as voiceover actors!
ESG Investing
This course was designed to introduce learners to the concept of ESG Investing and was created in Articulate Storyline. This company was just starting with ESG investing and needed to introduce the basic concept to their sales and client support employees. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing refers to a set of standards that socially conscious investors use to screen investments. To really highlight the environmental link, I used more organic, nature-inspired images, while incorporating the company's vibrant branding colors to help maintain interest.
Online Adult Courses
These were a series of courses created in Articulate Rise. The courses are offered free to the public on topics like Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect, Preventing, Recognizing, and Responding to Child Abuse, Online Child Exploitation, and more. I was tasked with updating the course content and moving them from a recorded webinar format to Articulate Rise 360.
Safety Matters+ Curriculum
For this project, we created a new, Pre-K-12 prevention education curriculum specifically for students with intellectual and deveopmental disabilities. I was both the project manager and part of the curriculum design group. In addition to designing the PowerPoints and scripts and creating the supplemental materials I also oversaw the creation and running of the Advisory Council and the pilot research process. This project is near and dear to my heart. As a mom, being a warrior to protect kids is so important to me. As a special education teacher and from my experience with the Monique Burr Foundation, I know how vulnerable all children, but especially children with intellectual and developmental disabilites, are.
Lesson Planning Guide and Lesson
This guide and lessons plan was created for the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. The guide was created in order to help the Education Committee create more standardized lessons plans. The lesson plan was created for an Easter-themed workshop for children.
LMS Administration
I am familiar with the adminsitration of many LMS's, including Absorb, Skillport, Percipio, and Moodle. I was part of an implementation that moved the data of over 1600 global employees from Skillport to Percipio, including integrating the LMS and HRIS system, training, and setting up policies and procedures. For my graduate internship, I created an Joomla! intranet to house policies, procedures, and files and a Moodle training portal that included two training modules, one for annual IT training and one to train new tellers on the financial system.
Web & Graphic Design
I have always loved graphic design and during my time at the credit union I created three different websites and designed brochures, ATM screens, digital ads, fliers, newsletters, and banners. What I love about designing eLearning is that it allows me to combine my love of graphic design and teaching.
Miscellaneous Projects
I've been really lucky in my career in that every job I've ever had has let me stretch my "creative and problem solving muscles." At the credit union, I was part of a team that created new checking account and credit card products. I was involved in figuring out what these new products would look like and helped design the communications and marketing materials. I even designed the credit and debit cards! Later, I was also part of a merger between our credit union and another and ran the information migration. That was a long Halloween weekend where I was grinding away entering data and cheering my team on, but the feeling when were were done was fantastic.
When I started another position, they were using a headset mic to record their training programs. It got the job done but the quality was not great. My dream recording studio was not in the budget, so I put my thinking cap on and made one myself. I was able to secure a printing room - to be honest it was more of a closet. But beggars can't be choosers. I got on the internet and ordered a bunch of hotel towels (You know the kind I'm talking about. The cheap, white, buy in bulk kind) and my husband helped me build wooden frames that I stapled the towels to and covered in black fabric - because, well my closet, um, recording studio had to look nice. I hung those babies from the ceiling and walls and bought a cheap backdrop stand that I could hang moving blankets from. I conviced them to buy a Blue Yeti microphone. Not expensive, but respectable. The audio quality was much improved and soon our little recording studio became quite popular.
Soon after, we were approached to record a series of Sales podcasts, and although that room was quite snug, it got the job done.
At heart, I'm a crafter, a maker, and a doer. I like to create things, especially things that teach and help people. And I love solving problems - even if...especially if, it requires something a bit unconventional.