I build custom and original interactive lesson content at the K-12 and college level. I understand that professional instructional developers are not YouTube video curators and that Creative Commons is not where an instructional designer goes to find their visuals. Yet, this behavior is rampant out there. I look for clients and employers that understand this and seek the real professionals. They understand the value of actual content creators.
Digital Caliper Interactive: This digital caliper interactive is part of a lesson that prepares technical college students to use the tools that will be in the hands-on lab environment. I created the graphics and built out the interactivity including custom scripting.
Stoichiometry - It is one of the most challenging and important concepts in general chemistry. There are many steps and you can start and end with many different possible variables and units. To make it easier for students to learn, I developed a workspace for students to use while they are mastering this skill. from the very begining
Marine Biology
The bladder with higher resolution for zoom labeling on the lower right quadrant for the detrusor muscles and mucosa.
The economics course is a little unusual in that is also has a lot of historical content showing how the economic foundations of governments and people have changed over time. The above image shows our manikin-style characters we used for this project to mock up the storyboard. Those figures are built of individual body components that can be easily posed by our instructional designers that are not graphical designers. Then our graphical designers can use that base to flesh out period clothes. It saved a lot of time for our instructional designers who then did not have to scour stock sites and the net for conveying what they had in mind. In the final artwork, we decided to keep the details low on the figures in this course due to an unusually intense schedule that year.