Trainings & Games

Creating an Inclusive Classroom Climate: Empowering Teachers for Anti-Racist Practices and Inclusive Education Training Course

After closely collaborating with past colleagues in the education realm to created an authentic learning experience in an asynchronous training, this instructional design artifact was created with a strong focus on the need for inclusivity in the classroom. In this self-paced course designed for K-5 general education teachers, participants will gain the knowledge and skills to create a more inclusive and supportive learning environment. Through reflective exercises, they will assess their classroom climate, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to foster inclusivity. With accessible resources, videos, and interactive tools, teachers will learn to acknowledge and respect diverse identities, employ inclusive language, and empower their students to find security, comfort, and voice in the educational space.

Graduate Assistantship Training Course

After closely collaborating with the Center for Academic Innovation to created an authentic learning experience in a sychronous and asynchronous onboarding training, this instructional design artifact was created in collaboration with members of the Center for Academic Innovation to help train future graduate assistants, as well as provide resources to help current graduate assistants complete their daily responsibilities within the organization. The artifact itself is a Canvas course packed with guidelines, assessments, and media that can be used to help graduate assistants navigate through their day to day tasks during work hours. Finally, this artifact helps to support graduate assistants receiving the certification and workshops that are required of them during their time as graduate assistants and also keeps them on track with deadlines to meet as they fill their hourly requirements and apply for renewal on a term by term basis.

After closely collaborating with the Center for Academic Innovation and reviewing goals of the different workshops already established, as well as investigating the potential needs for professional development for educators, TILT came to fruition to emphasizes empowerment in the learning experiences within the Canvas learning space. TILT focuses on the importance of developing transparent outcomes and objectivest that are presented with immense intentionality in virtual classroom spaces and aims to shape the perspective of educators to showcase the importance of developing TILT. The Transparency in Teaching & Learning transparency framework provides a mechanism for laying out the Purpose, Task, and Criteria for Success when designing assignments and assessments. This transparent, explicit approach helps deconstruct “unwritten” rules for academic achievement to set all learners up for success. This artifact was created and presented to guide professors explore how greater transparency can increase your students’ consciousness of how they learn and how your course activities support specific learning outcomes and academic growth.

To help support the on-boarding process for Braata Productions, this artifact was created in CSE 504 in Rise Articulate to guide users through the different organizational software tools that are used at the company. The artifact itself goes through an depth look at each of the different communication and project management softwares, helps users set up their account, and gives them a full understanding of the use of each tool and how it is a relevant resource for each of the daily tasks within the company. The course itself is self paced where users are encouraged to explore at their own pace through the tutorial and independently on their own screen.

This virtual and interative way of peering at a cookbook helps to engage stuidents in a more learner-driven and self paced way that accommodates for learning variability through thoughful design that prevents cognitive overload, but promotes active learning. This artifact was created during CSE 508 as a way to create a gamified way for users to experience a virtual cookbook. Storyline Articulate was utilized to program interactive buttons that guide readers through the cookbook with a variety of hand drawn or created images that keep true to the pixel art digital theme of the game itself.