Since August 2015 I have worked at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, first as the Director of Blended and Online Learning in the Program for Experienced Learners (PEL), then as the Administrative Assistant in the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE), and currently as the Accessibility Coordinator in the Office of Accessibility, housed in the CAE.
As such, I have not been teaching courses to students. Instead, I provided instructional design support to PEL faculty, provided technical and software support to PEL faculty and students, and provided technical, research, social media, and writing support to the administrators of PEL. As part of CAE, I have provided similar types of support to residential students and to faculty and staff working with the larger residential student population.
During my time in PEL, I began developing materials to help faculty design courses, particularly blended and online courses. I made note of faculty questions, misunderstandings, and requests for help and began planning ways to provide materials that might be helpful. I attended one of the faculty development meetings provided to professors on the residential side of the college and I attended a workshop presented by the Director of Instructional Technology. I also read the development articles sent by the office of the Dean of Faculty and began cataloguing those in the Moodle help site. In particular, I began working on ways of explaining pedagogies of discussion boards, infographics, multimodal course content and assignments, and philosophies of grading. Unfortunately, the program was dissolved before I could implement what I had begun. In CAE, I also have developed instructional material designed to help faculty and students navigate the accommodations processes.
I have become proficient in using Accommodate, Maxient, Canvas/Blackboard/Moodle, Quicken, Peachtree, Google sites, and other software programs.