Clients and projects
I’ve had the honour and privilege of working with some great people over the years. Select the project buttons for more information. (Select the button again to close its list.)
I’ve been working as a freelance instructional designer and course author with Vancouver-based Limestone Learning since 2020. Together we’ve produced a wide variety of interesting projects on a diverse range of subject matter, in a variety of formats – animations, videos and traditional delivery methods.
In the fall of 2024, I was invited to collaborate with US-based non-profit Global Water Center. GWC’s mission is to bring the rural water sector together with innovative technology and professional water education. I’m excited to work with their L&D team and SMEs around the globe to design and develop practical training for their clients and learners.
Currents Group owner and former Head of Learning Services at MSF Canada, Dominique Giguère, reaches out to me from time to time to assist with development on various projects, often for international MSF partners. It’s always great to work with the person who got me started in elearning development and instructional design!
EOC ORIENTATION (City of Calgary) | 2024 – 2025
Providing Vyond video production for a course for people called upon to assist the city in the event of an emergency
Role: Vyond video producer
Tools: Vyond | Camtasia | ElevenLabs | Adobe CC | MS Office
Skills: animation | AI audio generation | video & audio editing
INTRODUCTION TO SEXUAL ASSAULT (BCWHHC) | 2024 – 2025
Course for practionners assisting survivors of sexual assault
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | ElevenLabs | Sound Forge
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | audio editing
VEHICLES FOR HIRE DRIVER SAFETY & PASSENGERS WITH DISABILITIES (City of Calgary) | 2024 – 2025
Course for drivers of vehicles for hire in Calgary AB
Role: Vyond video producer
Tools: Vyond | Camtasia | MS Office
Skills: animation | AI audio generation | video editing
PROTECTING PATIENTS FROM SEXUAL ABUSE AND MISCONDUCT (CPTA) | 2024
Course for all regulated health professionals in Alberta
Role: Instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Rise 360 | Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | Synthesia | Camtasia | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | AI video generation | video editing
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE (BC Interior Health) | 2024
Course for health professionals in BC
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | ElevenLabs| Camtasia | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | AI audio generation | audio editing
COLD WEATHER PREPAREDNESS (BC CROWN CORP) | 2024
Compliance course on required tasks for protecting hydro power equipment from extreme cold condidtions.
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Articulate 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | animation | graphic design | audio editing
INFORMED CONSENT (CPTA) | 2024
Course for physiotherapists in Alberta
Role: Course developer
Tools: Rise | Adobe CS | Synthesia | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | AI video generation
MULITPLE COURSES UPDATE (BC CROWN CORP) | 2024
Update older courses to a new design template in Storyline 360
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | audio editing
HEALTHY LIVING VIDEO SERIES (FRASER HEALTH) | 2024
Six animated videos for families about healthy habits.
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Vyond | Camtasia | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing/scripting | animation | graphic design | video editing | audio editing
RECORDS MANAGEMENT (BC CROWN CORP) | 2023
Short course on maintaining records.
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | ElevenLabs | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | audio editing
UNDERSTANDING RESTRICTED ACTIVITIES (CPTA) | 2023
Course for physiotherapists in Alberta
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | instructional design | graphic design | audio editing
THE WRITE STUFF – DOCUMENTATION FOR PHYSIOS (BCCP) | 2023
Course for physiotherapists across Canada on proper documentation practices
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | graphic design | audio editing
NEW WORKER ORIENTATION (ABCELLERA) | 2022
Animated Health & Safety employee onboarding course
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Vyond | Adobe Character Animator | Camtasia | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing/scripting | course authoring | animation | graphic design | video editing | audio editing | project management | communication
BURN PREVENTION (BC BURN FUND) | 2022
Course for parents, incorporating video interviews
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Camtasia | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | graphic design | video editing | audio editing
ASSISTED LIVING IN BC (BC GOV) | 2021
6-part course incorporating video interviews
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Camtasia | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing/scripting | course authoring | graphic design | video editing | audio editing
RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE (BCLC) | 2020
2 scenario-based animated courses (employee/management)
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Vyond | Camtasia | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | animation | graphic design | video editing | audio editing
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This project for MSF Australia was based on Case Studies done by MSF reflecting on the lessons learned by the organization during the Bosnian conflicts of the 1990s.
The intro module was built in Rise and the rest in Storyline.
SPEAKING OUT CASE STUDIES (SOCS)
2-part course on the history of MSF’s presence and lessons learned during the war in the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and early 2000s
Revised Module 1 (Rise), IDd/Developed Module 2 (Storyline 360)
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Rise 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing | copy editing | course authoring | graphic design | communication | project management
St. John’s-based Bluedrop reached out to me in 2022 to do the instructional design on a unique F2F-to-elearning project for an Indigenous-owned training company.
PROFESSIONAL INDIGENOUS ALLY TRAINING (ITP)
Conversion of F2F training for businesses and non-profits on how to incorporate Truth & Reconciliation into their organizations.
Role: Instructional designer
Tools: MS Office | Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing/scripting | project management | communication | graphic design
DRILLING SUPERVISION | 2025
Course to upskill borehole drilling supervisors
Role: Instructional designer | course developer | project manager
Tools: Rise 360 | Storyline 360 | AI tools | Adobe CS | MS Office | Smartsheets
Skills: instructional design | course authoring | graphic design | project management | writing | editing | communication | storytelling | scenario building
MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES and BOREHOLE DRILLING THEORIES OF CHANGE and LEARNING PLANS | 2024 – 2025
Part of the L&D team working with SMEs to create 4 Theories of Change with the end result of identifying learning outcomes for 4 courses to be developed over the next couple of years
Role: Instructional designer | project manager
Tools: Miro board | MS Office| Smartsheets | AI tools
Skills: instructional design | communication | writing | documentation formatting and layout
ARE YOU A SPWS CHAMPION GAME – UPDATE | 2024
This quick project was to fix a glitchy gamified activity, part of a longer in-depth course on solar powered water systems.
Roles: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS
Skills: course authoring | animation | graphic design | instructional design | copy editing | audio editing
AMONTario contracted me to design and build a 13 module Rise course on Asset Management and Climate Change for municipal asset managers and departments across Canada. It’s a particularly critical and urgent issue in todays warming world and a very interesting project to work on.
ASSET MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
13 Rise modules for municipal asset managers on how to adapt to climate change
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Rise 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing | copy editing | course authoring | graphic design | video editing | audio editing | communication | project management
US-based Ease Learning contracted me in 2021 to develop a short elearning course on American history for continuing education students in California.
A TIMELINE OF US HISTORY (SDCCE)
High-level timeline of significant events in US history
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: course authoring | graphic design | audio editing
RESPECTFUL BEHAVIOUR AT MSF: FULFILLING YOUR DUTY AS A BOARD MEMBER (MSF) | 2024 – 2025
Design/develop an course for board members on respectful governance practices.
Roles: Asst. instructional designer | Course developer
Tools: Storyline 360 | Adobe CS | MS Office
Skills: Instructional design | course authoring | writing | copy editing | graphic design | audio editing | communication | project management
CRITICAL CASE REPORTING (MSF) | 2021
Design/create an infographic (in MS PPT)
PHARMACIE (MSF) | 2019
Design knowledge checks, fix trigger/variables issues
EBOLA COURSE (MSF) | 2019
Edit existing video
WOUND CARE (MSF) | 2019
Create a custom menu/progress graphic
My entry into elearning design and development began when I was contracted by MSF Canada’s Learning Services. Under the training and mentorship of co-founder and Head of LS, Dr. Dominique Guigère, I worked on many projects – mostly medical, but on other topics as well.
The following elearning courses were developed by MSF Canada for MSF’s Operational Centres in Geneva (OCG) Barcelona (OCBA), Brussels (OCB), Amsterdam (OCA) and Paris (OCP).
CHOLERA EBRIEFING (OCG) | EBOLA EBRIEFING (OCG) | MENTAL HEALTH (OCA) | PAEDIATRICS (OCA & OCBA) | NUTRITION (OCG) | HIV/AIDS (OCB) | BEHAVIOUR AND ABUSE (OCG) | NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (OCA) | UNIFIELD SOFTWARE TRAINING (OCG) |
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer
(Roles varied between projects)
Tools: Storyline 360* | Rise 360 | Camtasia | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing | copy editing | course authoring | animation | graphic design | video editing | audio editing | communication | project management
*Earlier versions of Storyline were used in older projects
iCampus21, an education support and hosting company engaged me to convert a grade 10 English course for EAL students for an international school in Alberta.
CELEBRATE ENGLISH EXCELLENCE
10 module Grade 10 EAL English Language Arts course
(Included in the deliverables was a full PDF version)
Roles: Instructional designer | Course developer | Narrator
Tools: Storyline 2 | Adobe CS | Sound Forge | MS Office
Skills: instructional design | storyboarding | writing/scripting | course authoring | animation |graphic design | narration | audio recording, editing | communication | project management
LiftOff contracted me to build 6 of 10 modules of a course for the travel agent industry.
IATA-TASF
Course on sales techniques for travel agents
Role: Course developer
Tools: Storyline 2 | Adobe Photoshop
Skills: course authoring | graphic design | audio editing
Learning Agents has been a client of mine since 2002 and I’ve played a key role in its work and growth as not only a regular contractor, but as wife and partner to its President, Don Presant. Can’t get more invested in an organization than that!
What began as a multimedia eLearning company creating career ePortfolios for clients such as Manitoba sector associations, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, TFO and other organizations, has become Canada’s first Open Badges platform, “CanCred.ca” and Don is now a recognized OB/microcredential expert world-wide.
My roles for Learning Agents and CanCred include presentation deck design, multimedia production, writing, documentation, instructional design, Storyline development, and graphic design.
Roles: presentation deck designer | graphic designer | writer | editor | Board member
Tools: MS Office | Adobe CS | Camtasia | Storyline 360
Skills: presentation design | multimedia production | writing | documentation | elearning design | graphic design
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