Instructional Design

Microsoft Press: Academic Learning Series Instructional Design

• Analyzed focus group results and conducted instructor interviews
• Formulated a sound series-wide pedagogy for this series of six classroom textbooks
• Reduced the number of "busy work" and "follow-the-directions" activities and increased the number of hands-on application activities by 75%
• Compiled all suggestions for textbooks, lab manuals, test bank questions, and support materials into a 27-page Author Guide
• Analysis and development completed at a distance, plus one face-to-face meeting to present guidelines to authors
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Sweetland Writing Center (University of Michigan): Visual Rhetoric and Graphic Design Handouts

• Condensed basic graphic design principles into two, one-page lessons and a quiz/checklist
• Wrote instructional text
• Designed handouts that demonstrate the principles they teach
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Kalamazoo Nature Center: Carnivore and Herbivore Week

• Designed a week’s worth of lunchtime activities to be delivered by Nature Center staff at local elementary schools
• Created color laminated flash cards, game supplies, and teacher's manual
• Trained instructors to use the lessons
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