Instructional Design
Design for eLearning
Tabitha's Way Food Pantry
About: This blended solution includes an eLearning module and color-coded job aids for the 5,000 yearly volunteers serving at a community-based food pantry's two locations. The pantry needed to fix several problems: training inefficiencies, food waste, food safety errors, and excessive demands on staff members' time.
Tools: Storyline, Well Said Labs narration, PowerPoint, Google Suite, Word, Diagrams.net
Kidding Season
About: This concept project resulted from the time I spent volunteering on a goat ranch during kidding season. I reimagined and transformed the on-site ILT training I had received into an eLearning solution. Two questions informed the course's design: How could this solution reduce the demands on the ranch manager's time, and how could volunteers be better prepared for their first shift?
Tools: Storyline, Well Said Labs narration, royalty-free music
Implementing an Interview Strategy
About: This is a branching scenario concept project. Given a compilation of content, I identified the business goals, generated a list of interview questions I would ask SMEs, created a design document and storyboard, incorporated mentor feedback, and developed the branching-scenario course in Storyline.
Tools: PowerPoint, Storyline 360, Well Said Labs, Word
Design for Animated Video
Space Exploration Project
The Project
The client's goal was to provide opportunities for students in Grades 3-8 to learn space content through interactive instructional animated videos linked to their website.
As of September 2022, the videos were publicly available on the client's website.
My Role
Instructional designer and scriptwriter (I did not do the video development.)
Researched specific content that met the client's content requirements (terrain vehicles, growing food in space, constellations, and launch vehicles)
Sourced open-source images, videos, and animations from NASA
Ideated a story and characters that became the narrative framework for the storyboard and script
Wrote a storyboard and mocked up visuals to illustrate concepts for the client
Storyboard
The storyboard required detailed mockups, explanations, and suggestions for graphics and character movement.
Storyboard mock-up showing the
constellation drag-and-drop interaction
Storyboard mock-up showing the
terrain vehicle construction interaction
Space Exploration: Quest 1
The client made this video publicly available on their website at 4-h.org (Space Exploration: Quest 1)
See a screen recording below. The PLAY BUTTON is located in the lower left-hand corner.
NOTE: I did the instructional design and script writing for this video. I did NOT develop the video.
Space Exploration: Quest 2
The client made this video publicly available on their website at 4-h.org (Space Exploration: Quest 2)
See the screen recording below. The PLAY BUTTON is located in the lower left-hand corner.
NOTE: I did the instructional design and script writing for this video. I did NOT develop the video.
Pollinator Series
The Project
The client's goal was to convert eight of their printed Pollinator content guides into an interactive instructional animated series, which would include filmed video segments demonstrating how to make hands-on, at-home projects.
The client's intent is to make the Pollinator video series publicly available on their website.
My Role
Instructional designer and scriptwriter (I did not develop the videos.)
Converted existing written content into designs that included animated characters, interactions, instructions for demonstration video creation, and assessments
Ideated a story and characters that became the overarching, cohesive narrative framework for the series
Wrote narration scripts for the animated characters as well as the demo video voice-overs
Wrote eight detailed storyboards, suggesting images, stock video clips, sound effects, and artistic effects. The storyboards also included detailed instructions on how the demo videos ought to be filmed.
Storyboard
Pollinators 1: Garden in a Glove
Video coming soon