Executive Overview

Between 2023 and 2025, I have pursued a Master's degree in Learning Design and Technology from North Carolina State University's College of Education. This portfolio showcases the skills and competencies I have developed during my course of study. Each portfolio item is accompanied by an annotation describing the item, the context of its creation, and the skills it highlights.

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The first item is my master's capstone project: Introduction to Configurable Joins. Introduction to Configurable Joins is a fully fleshed-out curriculum designed for my colleagues at Duke University. In my role as Slate Operations Manager for Duke's Graduate Admissions Office, I am responsible for training 1600+ users on how to use Slate. Any of those users who wish to expand their knowledge and become "power users" will need a fundamental understanding of Configurable Joins within Slate, so my manager asked me to develop this course as both my capstone project and a valuable tool for training the other members of our office.

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Introduction to Configurable Joins is the culmination of my years of study, and it highlights all of the skills and competencies I have developed. As an asynchronous course, it relies upon videos to convey information. These videos were written, performed, recorded, and edited by me, thus showcasing my thorough familiarity with all aspects of video production. This course also showcases fundamental principles of distance learning: meaningful practice assignments and frequent opportunities for communication between the instructor and the student. Finally, the course also demonstrates my competencies related to digital accessibility. Users within Duke University can access the videos through Panopto, which includes chapter headings and closed captioning. For those outside Duke University, the videos are all available on Google Drive with accompanying closed-caption transcripts that can be loaded into a media player.

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My second item is my Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model for improving member training and development within a college fraternity I advise at Duke University. This model showcases my analytical skills as I detail an existing system and identify its strengths and faults. It also demonstrates my competency at translating theoretical solutions into practical ones as I describe a systemic solution and elaborate upon its implementation within that system. Where Introduction to Configurable Joins showcases a final product, my ISD model highlights the information gathering and planning stages for a new educational design.

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Third is a documentary short I produced as my final individual project for my Video for Teaching and Learning course titled "King Arthur: The Once and Future King of Fanfiction." My objective with this project was to practice a variety of video production skills, from still object filming, to "Ken Burns"-style visual effects, to audio and music editing. This twenty-minute documentary is more complicated than most educational videos, and it showcases the extent of my video editing and post-production skills. Once again, this video includes closed captioning to improve accessibility.

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The last item in my portfolio is an Accessibility Review I conducted of several Duke University websites and pages. Duke University has mandated that all web pages should meet WCAG 2.1 - AA standards for accessibility by 2025. This review demonstrates my familiarity with Accessibility standards and the degree to which I incorporate these standards into my own learning object designs.

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