Portfolio

Learning Designed for the Learner

We design, build, and implement the learning experience ourselves, from full LMS courses to the videos, media, and materials inside them, alongside the writing, design, and presentations that carry our work everywhere else. Pick a category below to see it.

Interactive Learning & Course Materials

Learning Artifacts

Critical Response Process in Corporate Quality Assurance course title screen, showing a team collaborating around a laptop
Articulate Rise · Corporate

Critical Response Process for Corporate QA

Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process, adapted from the arts world for use in agile QA team feedback loops.

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Playing With Punctuation title screen, demystifying the semicolon, illustrated with playful classroom doodles
Pear Deck · Micro-learning

Playing With Punctuation

A micro-learning deck demystifying one of the most misused punctuation marks: the semicolon.

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Digital Marketing course map excerpt, showing course learning objectives and module-level lesson objectives with standards mapping
Curriculum mapping

Digital Marketing Course Map

First of a 14-course sequence used at 20+ universities internationally.

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Workbook interior spreads
Workbook design

Companion Workbook, I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here

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Canvas · Graduate Course Builds

Custom Course Templates and Builds

A sequence of graduate education courses built for Alvernia University's TExpL® Institute (Total Experience Learning), each with a custom homepage, structured modules, and supporting visuals for the framework itself.

MED 640 Canvas course homepage with Alvernia University and Total Experience Learning branding, Start Here button, and five-module navigation
Course homepage

A designed entry point, not a default Canvas shell.

Canvas module page showing learning intentions, numbered to-do list, and tabbed READ/VIEW/REVIEW interface
Module design

Custom READ / VIEW / REVIEW tabs guide learners through each module.

TExpL Framework visualization showing five tiers: Solutions, Connection, Structure, Methods, Communication
Framework visualization

Translating the TExpL® framework into a scannable visual.

Blackboard: Built to Be Reused

Blackboard sample module template with objectives structure and task table
Module template

A reusable module skeleton any faculty member can populate.

Populated Blackboard module with readings, lecture presentations, and video links for a healthcare finance course
Template in use

The template in action for a private college's healthcare finance course.

Weekly modules overview for a writing course with objectives listed per module
Course architecture

Module-level objectives mapped across a full writing course.

Design
Media Production

Written, Illustrated, and Produced Solo

Summary versus Analysis

An instructional video for the grant-funded WOLFIE Writers initiative, written, illustrated, and produced start to finish using VideoScribe and Audacity.

Revision

A companion piece in the WOLFIE Writers series, also written, illustrated, and produced solo.

Graphic Design

Content Chameleon

Cynically Optimistic: The Complete Suite

Cynically Optimistic book cover, a cracked glass half full of water on a deep blue background
Enamel pin, cracked glass half full

Enamel pin, extending the cracked-glass motif

QR sticker, companion piece

QR sticker, a companion piece to the pin

Cover design, interior layout, and companion merch, built as one cohesive visual system for a published poetry collection.

EdTok app logo, white line-art graduation cap in a black circle with offset yellow and green rings
App brand identity

EdTok

Brand identity for EdTok, the edtech venture we co-founded.

The CRB2 Foundation logo, embroidered-texture letters in a hand-drawn DNA motif ring
Nonprofit identity

The CRB2 Foundation

The CRB2 Foundation is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing community and education for families touched by the Crumbs family of diseases.

Buffalo Bookish Babes badge logo, buffalo with a heart, serif and script type, rose and brown palette
Community badge

Buffalo Bookish Babes

A woman-owned business that plans "bookish" events and gatherings for the Buffalo community.

Presentations

Engaging Visual Rhetoric

Slide from the Canvas Escape Room deck: 'Why this works' with colorful dominoes and gamification psychology text
Faculty PD workshop

Building a Canvas Escape Room

A faculty PD session on the psychology of gamification, including a step-by-step method for building your own Canvas escape room.

Slide from The Story of Learning deck: a comic-style speech bubble reading '02 Inform Learners of the Objectives'
Teaching demonstration

The Story of Learning: Gagné's 9 Events

A teaching demonstration that walks through Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction by performing them on the audience as it goes.

Writing

We write things. All kinds of things.

Book chapter · Palgrave

"All Our World on Stage"

A chapter on multimodal writing pedagogy, co-authored with Christopher Petty, published in Palgrave's Teaching Writing Across Theatre and Performance Studies.

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Poetry collection

Cynically Optimistic

A collection of poetry that finds hope tangled up with dread, published under our imprint Aspen & Olive.

The full collection →
Personal essay

When I Was Asked What's 'Wrong' With My Son With a Disability

A personal essay on disability stigma, language, and parenting a child with a rare disease.

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Theatre review · Texas Theatre Journal

In With the Old

A review of Bill Irwin and David Shiner's Old Hats at the Signature Theatre, published in Volume 10 of the Texas Theatre Journal.

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Blog

Mementos

A blog post on preserving wedding keepsakes through handmade paper craft, for Papercraft Miracles.

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