Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Distance Learning”
Active member of committee creating a district-wide social and emotional learning curriculum, K-12 Member of small core curriculum development committee Conceived of and created website prototype and strategy document for digital presence Wrote grades 3-5 modules for SEL toolkit Researched and helped select curricula to pilot in classrooms
Architect clean code, responsive UI/mobile-friendly design for building out and updating website (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery) Mockups and wireframes for new pages Edited and enhanced existing video components (iMovie and Premiere) Modified back-end databases (tables and graphs) Created frontend graphics (Photoshop and Illustrator) Integrated Vimeo-based product and training videos Created branded, animated e-card and integrated digital marketing campaigns Proposed blog architecture and features Proposed webinar, …
Multiple-award-winning interactive website developed for Smithsonian’s National Zoo where students and families learn the importance of monitoring, restoring and conserving temperate forest habitats locally, nationally and globally for the health and survival of the species within them, and for the valuable ecosystem services they provide. My Role: Lead project developer Prototype designs 7 Flash-based interactive games (concept, interactive frameworks, content) Conservation …
Does switchgrass come to mind when thinking about filling up the family car? This new app, developed for Creative Discovery Museum, teaches strategies for wise energy use, inviting people to consider various fuel options, including biofuels, and experience the outcomes/impacts as they undertake a journey by car across the US. Road Trip Challenge is also being used in interactive kiosks in museums and other educational venues. …
Working closely with Dr. J Larry Brown, the nation’s leading domestic hunger expert, I wrote a 100+ page standards-based high school curriculum and then modified it for middle school students. This curriculum was the youth action component for actors Jeff Bridges and Leo DiCaprio’s Hollywood Entertainment Industry’s Hunger Free America Campaign. I was contracted by the Heller School at Brandeis to write this curriculum after …
MCET was an award-winning quasi-public agency that produced live, two-way interactive distance learning programming through the Mass LearnPike broadcasting network. As curriculum and program developer for Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications (MCET), I: conceived of, researched, produced 83+ live, interactive, educational television programs, print and on-line curricula, and related websites, in social studies, the social sciences, Spanish and French, K-12. …
View project components at my wixsite. As program developer, I: created and developed Peace It Together: Strategies for Violence Prevention, a 16-part two-way live television series, website and curriculum kit. partnered with Harvard School of Public Health to develop and host the program. collaborated with many Boston-based, health, human services, juvenile justice and youth-serving organizations. accepted two first place national distance learning awards …
I developed interactive student, parent and teacher Java-heavy Web activities and technology resources, cross-curricular projects and the Technology Corner; I also managed the threaded discussion for the Cyber Schoolhouse website The Simon & Schuster Elementary Cyber Schoolhouse website was created in the original model of creating virtual environments based on brick and mortar. It provided a wealth of information and resources for teachers, students …
Conceived of by the Children’s Museum, Boston, Creating Spaces for Learning provided on-line parent resources and activities based on museum exhibit content. For its time, this was a high-end site with streaming video, QuickTime VR, Javascripts and lots of animation. Content included print-outable at-home activities, discussion group, and research findings. I was consulted as a developmental editor for the site.