by Sharon | May 7, 2015 | audio and video, design, portfolio
This logo for a fictional university is one of several visual elements I created for an alternate reality game pilot. The game, which featured a college facing an inland hurricane, was designed for students in a public relations/communications program, where the...
by Sharon | May 7, 2015 | design, pedagogy, portfolio
For a job interview, I was asked to speak on student engagement. The night before the interview I brainstormed the idea of an “engagement quilt,” like an old patchwork quilt with several different pieces that contribute to the design. In my...
by Sharon | May 7, 2015 | design, portfolio
While at Massive Online University, I designed a logo for our now-defunct department, the Center for Support of Instruction. We wanted something that looked futuristic and technical, but also something that talked about inspiration and creativity. The combination of a...
by Sharon | May 7, 2015 | authoring tools, portfolio
Training faculty to use easy content creation tools like SoftChalk is a delight. It’s fun to watch faculty find new ways to connect students and content. I used this SoftChalk quiz with a web animation class. It’s SCORM compliant, so the grades went...
by Sharon | May 7, 2015 | design, portfolio
I designed these advertisements for video game classes using actual game boxes. The ads were successful, if by “successful” you mean students stole the ads off the walls. We didn’t make many of these because it’s hard to get gamers to part with...
by Sharon | May 7, 2015 | design, portfolio
This Ferris wheel illustrates the journey that takes students from jeans to graduation robes. The graphic, developed during a session at Evergreen College’s National Summer Institute on Learning Communities, was conceived and executed in under two hours on a...
