by Sharon | Dec 1, 2016 | conferences, design, discbound, internal projects, pedagogy, portfolio, professional development
For this prototype, I combined a typical conference program with “bullet journaling” — a new spin on the classic hand-written daily planner. The Lily Conference inspired this project. I ran across their awesome conference program while looking for a...
by Sharon | May 5, 2015 | internal projects, portfolio, professional development
One of my assignments at Large Online University involved designing a department wiki and implementing an adoption strategy to encourage department staff to use the wiki. Initially, we decided to work with Media Wiki. I installed the software on a server, then began...
by Sharon | May 5, 2015 | animation, conferences, portfolio, professional development
Backup Singers: Hitting Productivity High Notes with Helper Apps is a presentation on automation I gave at the Texas Distance Learning Association in 2015. The presentation highlighted ways to automate tasks. . . . A traditional print handout felt too cumbersome for...
by Sharon | May 5, 2015 | authoring tools, portfolio, professional development
Align objects and change stack order in Storyline and PowerPoint using your number keypad. As any experienced Storyline user can tell you, the align and distribute tools in Storyline (like “align left” or “move to front”) are used constantly....
by Sharon | May 5, 2015 | audio and video, portfolio, professional development
Watch my Mac read a spreadsheet, and my PC enter the numbers into Storyline! Last year I worked on a series of extensive Storyline modules that required closed captioning. At the time, Storyline could not incorporate industry-standard closed caption files, and the few...
by Sharon | May 5, 2015 | audio and video, portfolio, professional development
See how I used ClipMate to help relieve some of the drudgery involved in creating closed captions in...