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Miscellaneous Projects
Instructional Design Toolkit
Atomic Jolt
This spreadsheet includes definitions, research descriptions, journal article links, implementation tips, application examples, and infographics or other artifacts for 12 evidence-based instructional design principles.​
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Format: Spreadsheet
Audience: Instructional Designers
Tech: Google Sheets, Canva, Vyond
Role: Instructional Designer
Curriculum QA Audit
Lavinia Group
This project involved a thorough audit of a suite of 18 courses to ensure each course was consistent with the style-guide and error-free.​
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Format: Courses
Tech: Canvas LMS, Google Sheets
Role: Project Manager and Lead QA
Site Rebranding
Lavinia Group
I worked on this project to rebrand the entire suite of Lavinia Group's course offerings.
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Format: Suite of Courses
Audience: Primary School Classes
Tech: Canvas LMS, Canva
Role: Curriculum Developer, QA assistant
Looming Code Program
USU SLLI Grant
This project was created as part of a research project to assist librarians in teaching STEM and computational thinking skills to middle school students through Making activities. The program teaches students to weave on a loom and create their own patterns using a Scratch coded program.
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Format: Activity Program
Audience: Middle School students and teachers
Tech: Scratch, Lucidpress
Role: Lead designer
Artifacts
Monster Pajamas
This project was created in response to a design question: What can be done to help young children who are afraid of the dark? A set of pajamas for a stuffed animal was fitted with a night light and a sound module to play music, along with a companion video game where kids practice scaring away bedtime monsters.
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Format: Product and Game
Audience: Toddlers
Tech: Scratch, Arduino Compatibles
Role: Sole designer
Artifacts
ACMA App Prototype
Art City Music Academy
This project was created as a support tool for ACMA. The interactive prototype contained pages for parent/teacher contact, references and resources, and homework reminders.
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Format: Prototype
Audience: ACMA Parents and Teachers
Tech: Cacoo by nulab, Google Suite
Role: Codesigner
Artifacts
Logan Library Website Redesign
Logan City Library
This collaboration project was a redesign of the Logan City Library Website. The redesign prototype included an interactive calendar page and a new resources search engine.
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Format: Presentation
Audience: Library Users, Library Board
Tech: Google Slides, Justinmind
Role: Codesigner