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Curriculum, Certificates, Professional Development Courses and Conferences Attended

My Curriculum

My curriculum is available as a PDF. I earned my Bachelor of Arts at The Ohio State University, achieved June 1993, graduating magna cum laude. I majored in Photography and minored in Zoology. I spent a brief time in Physical Therapy School at OSU in 1996. Then, I earned my Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication Design Development in June of 2005, final gpa was 3.97. For my master's project I optically motion captured and videod taped lame dogs and ones with healthy gait to create a learning module on canine lameness for the Veterinary Medicine students. It involved using 7 programs for the final Flash interactive output. They were Vicon 8 Optical Motion Capture software, Kaydara Motion Builder, Maya for rigging and 3-D, Premiere Pro, Sorenson Squeeze to compress videos for the web, Flash for animation and interactive interface, and Dreamweaver for web page editing.

Certificates from CSU

I earned a certificate in Web Design from the Monte Ahuja Professional Development Center and one in Training and Development from Cleveland State University's CASAL department. I'm awaiting CSU's Certificate in Online Teaching (curriculum completed).

Professional Development Courses

Courses taken at CSU

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Courses completed through Deque University

Courses completed through Lynda.com

Courses taken through CASAL at CSU as part of the Training and Development Certificate

  • Training and Development Basics: An Introduction
  • Needs Assessment and Analysis
  • Instructional Design and Development
  • Program Implementation and Evaluation
  • Creative Training and Presentation Handouts
  • Online Learning in Training and Development

Courses Taken At CSU As Part Of The Certificate in Online Teaching

  • Designing Online Instruction
  • eLearning Tools & Techniques
  • Individual Projects in Education

Courses Taken Through the Online Learning Consortium for their Certificate in Online Teaching

  • Instructional Design Mastery Series
  • Foundations of Teaching Online

Courses Taken Through Quality Matters

Other Certificates

Conferences Attended

  • Open Educational Network Summer Summit virtual conference, June 2021, Co-presented A Commnity Approach to Departmental Collaboration: Engaging Faculty & Campus Partners
  • The Affordable Learning Ohio Summit and Preconference, Akron University, August, 2018
  • The Open Textbook Network Summer Institute and Summit, Minnesota, July 2018
  • Innovate Forward, The Ohio State University, May 2018 - I presented Student Creation of OER with Pressbooks and H5P: Having Fun with Open Textbook Adoption and Assignments for Open Educational Resources
  • Quality Matters Ohio Consortium Annual Members Meeting, Kent State University, May 2018 - I presented Student Creation of OER with H5P for Active Learning
  • Quality Matters Ohio Consortium Annual Members Meeting, University of Akron, 2013
  • OpenCon 2018 Cleveland, Cleveland State University, April 2018 - I presented Teaching and Designing with Open Educational Resources: Open Textbook Adoption and Assignments for Open Learning Resources
  • The Elearning Guild's mLearn Con - Mobile Learning Conference, San Jose, CA, June 2014
  • Rustbelt Refresh Web Design and Development Conference, Cleveland, OH, 2013-2016
  • World Information Architecture Day, Kent State University, February 2015-2018
  • eMerge Blended Learning Conference, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH 2013-2014
  • Quality Matters Annual Member Meeting, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH 2011
  • The Elearning Guild's DevLearn & Adobe Demo Fest, San Francisco, CA, November 2007 - presented my Master's learning module and received an award for Best Non-product/Service category.
  • Ohio Digital Commons for Education, Columbus, OH, 2006-2007
  • Seed Teaching & Learning Conference, University of Findlay, OH, 2007