Client 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. (Tap a 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.
St. John’s-based Bluedrop reached out to me in 2022 to do the instructional design on a unique F2F-to-elearning project. The client is an Indigenous-owned company that offers training to businesses and non-profits on how to meaningfully incorporate Truth and Reconciliation into their organizations.
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 was a very interesting project to work on.
HEALTHY LIVING VIDEO SERIES (FRASER HEALTH) | 2023
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
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
This project for MSF Australia was very different from other projects I’ve done for MSF. It was based on Case Studies done by MSF reflecting on the lessons learned by the organization during the Bosnian conflicts of the 1990s and designed to help current MSF mission staff make decisions when faced with similar circumstances.
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
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
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
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 – usually brief fixes/edits to courses. It’s always great to work with the person who got me started in elearning development and instructional design!
BOARD GOVERNANCE (MSF) | FALL 2023
Details to come
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
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
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
My introduction into the field of elearning design and development began when I was contracted by MSF Canada’s new Learning Services department. Under the training and mentorship of co-founder and Head, Dominique Guigère, I worked on many projects – mostly medical, but with other subjects 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
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