Portfolio

Below are some of the websites that I took a big part in creating and maintaining.  The first three are sites with instructional design components.


Diabetes Intervention
This small course was built for a class at WVU. It is designed to teach kids from 14-18 yrs. old about diabetes.  It is not a full semester long course but, it is concise and informative.  Certain assignments are designed to get the students to participate with each other in a small competition using epistemic techniques such as arguing, explication, and critique.  I used rubrics to teach students how to argue and explicate. (see Diet Activity in the Intervention module).

To go through the full course click below.





W.R. Booker & Company
Rob Booker & Steve Nison
W.R. Booker & Co. is an online education company that teaches how to trade the retail Foreign Currency Markets (Forex).  I was a key player in developing and implementing online learning environments. I changed a lot of the original material adding in more server side interaction as well as social media so students could interact with each other more.  An interesting tid-bit about robbooker.com is that we had to create a course whose audience consisted of students of many ages, learning styles and ethnicity.  We taught students on every continent. Often this involved assessing individual students needs and customizing the course in their behalf.  Sometimes this involved designing simulations using Adobe Captivate and Techsmith Camtasia to show students how to use software to make trades in the currency market.  Additionally, we designed rubrics for assignments to be completed (Forex Tester and the Turbo Tester spreadsheet are good examples).

About the links below, the first one is to the main training site. The second is a blog I created for Rob Booker used to warehouse our online synchronous classes.  The third is an online training component for Rob's live face to face training.  As I looked at these sites, a lot of the videos were removed.  They were quirky, entertaining, educational and I wish everybody could see them.  Regardless of all the well designed assignments and Problem Based Learning projects, nothing can take place of a well presented and engaging presentation.  Rob Booker taught me a lot about that - he is one of the best when it comes to being an engaging instructor.


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Utah Valley University
As part of UVSC’s Multimedia Creations and Continuing Education Departments, I worked in a team environment in order to convert live face to face classes into online courses.  Most of the classes that I helped developed are no longer available to view due to permissions.  


Later, I moved to the web development departments where I worked a a project manager for the team that developed the UVU website.  

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Belmont County Board of Developmental Disabilities

This purpose of this site is to educate the public about the programs that Belmont County, Ohio offers to the public.  It was created in Joomla!  I did the programming and overall site design except for the flash banner right below the main menu.






 Triffx.com
 I did this site for Triffany Hammond who taught how to trade the Foriegn Currency Exchange Market (Forex).  I did the design and implementation in WordPress.  I did not do any instructional design for Triffany.






Slab Pizza
SLABpizza is owned and run by Eric Beutler.  Eric is an old friend of mine who makes really great pizza.

Along with the general design (excluding the logo) I created a simple customer relationship module.  CRM allowed Eric to track and email promotions to customers.  

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