I got into instructional design to help educators bridge the gap of understanding between the content they were delivering and their students. Using what I understand of graphic design and good pedagogy, I try to blend the two into meaningful projects that students will benefit from.
The examples below are some of the interactive pieces created for faculty to use in their classroom. Many, if not all, were experiments in trying something new for faculty to add to their lessons. The results have been positive and I continue to work with faculty and various interactive projects to be added when they are complete.
The bulk of the content was built and will run in Adobe Flash.
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BINGO GAME REVIEW This was one of the first challenges handed to me by a professor that wanted a different way for students to review content. There were about four of these created for different subjects. Click the photo to play an example. |
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QUIZ REVIEW The bingo drag-n-drop worked so well, we modified a Flash Quiz template to take advantage of it for a few quiz Reviews. Click the photo to play an example. |
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DELEGATION & PRIORITIZATION A faculty member wanted to post a learning module/content that was different than just her normal powerpoint slides. Working on a tight deadline, we created the following from her notes. Each sectino has review questions that follow it. General feedback was very positive from students. Click the photo to go through it. |
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT With the success of the above module, I decided to use FLASH instead to create richer animations and flow with content. That of course resulted in longer work hours. A review was meant to be included in the module, but time ran out. Feedback was really good with the only complaint being that there needed to be more explosions. Click the photo to see the work. |
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WHO MURDERED LINCOLN Inspired by the book, Manhunt, I wanted to create a prototype role-playing educational game where the student was the detective looking into the facts surrounding President Lincoln's assassination. Click the photo to play the game. |
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VIETNAM: A HISTORICAL WEBQUEST Role-playing as five of the President's most trusted advisors, high school/higher ed history students are required to research the Vietnam War to come up with a current solution to a similar political situation. Students will critically analyze the past and together, as a team of five, will synthesize their results, presenting their recommended solutions via YouTube. Click the photo to see the WebQuest. |
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HOLLYWOOD 3-ACT Working with the distance learning instructor for the GAME 2371 Storytelling and Storyboarding for Interactive Games course, an interactive module was created that focused on how to translate the Hollywood Three-Act movie structure into an interactive video game story. Click the photo to see the work. |
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FOLEY SFX This was a module that was put together for an assignment on creating Sound Fx for a video game. It included history, resource links, a how-to section in relation to the free software they would be using, as well as a few examples. Click the photo to see the work. |
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OUTLOOK INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS Teaming up with a subject matter expert from the Intro to Computers course at Lone Star College Kingwood, I helped create a series of interactive simulations on how to use Microsoft Outlook 2007. Since students did not have access to the actual software, but were being tested on it for the course, we used Captivate to create a series of software simulations they could interact with. Click the photo to see the work. |
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INTERACTIVE HEAD-TO-TOE ASSESSMENT Coming soon... |
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