Projects Highlighted

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Every project here starts with a problem worth solving. Here’s how I solved them.

Projects Highlighted

Every project here tells a story: a challenge faced, a collaboration formed, and a solution designed. Whether building data dashboards for program assessment, transforming 120-page manuals into interactive courses, or pivoting in-person training to virtual delivery during a pandemic, these projects showcase adaptability, creativity, and a learner-centered approach.

The toolkit: PowerBI, Canvas LMS, Articulate 360 (Storyline & Rise), Vyond, Doodly, Camtasia, Premiere Pro, Audacity, Adobe Creative Cloud, Genial.ly, Zoom, and more.

The real focus: Solving problems and creating meaningful learning experiences.

Dive into any project below to learn more.

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The Bottega: Exploration of AI Collaboration Assignments

A Virtual Instructor Led Guide

Shawna’s Brain | Claude’s Circuits | PowerPoint | Large Language Models | Generative AI

The Bottega started with a simple question: what if the problem with AI adoption isn’t the technology — it’s the story we’re telling about who holds the power in the room? Every design decision in this project flows from that question. I wanted to build something that didn’t just teach AI skills, but changed how experienced professionals see their own expertise in relation to emerging tools. This Renaissance workshop is the answer I landed on.

Key Features: Experiential Exploration | Learner Journal | Modeled Application | Collaborative Quest | Post Session Challenge & Badged Credential

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Developmental Diagnostics: Level 1 – Theories

A Project in Articulate Storyline

Shawna’s Brain | Claude’s Circuits | Storyline | Midjourney | Speechma

View from office out window onto playground. A stack of alphabet blocks on the left with a notebook in the middle and a coffee cup on the right.

An interactive learning experience that transforms passive theory memorization into active skill-building. Counseling students assume the role of trainee observers, identifying developmental theories in 12 authentic early childhood scenarios. The game provides immediate, theory-specific feedback and tracks performance across six major developmental frameworks. Built in Articulate Storyline 360 with custom AI-generated illustrations to create a cohesive, story-driven learning environment.

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Leading Remote Teams

A Project in Articulate Rise

Shawna’s Brain | Claude’s Circuits | Rise | Storyline | Zoom | Premiere Pro | Vidnoz | Speechma

A wooden easel with a hand drawn image of three people in front working on computers, two in the back and each person connected by lines.

A peek into a project under development. In a quest to develop a work sample in Articulate Rise, I thought what better topic than remote leadership. I started working and leading my admin group remotely back in 2020. Although many concepts are not specific to remote work, some carry more impact in a remote environment. Follow my progress as I complete this build. Currently the Modules are templated and Modules 1 – 4 are nearly complete. Let me know what you think!

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How I Met Your Generator

Ethical Collaboration With An LLM To Create A Professional Development Interactive Tool

Shawna’s Brain | Claude’s Circuits | Code

Screenshot of the Practice Activity Generator

A human, an AI, and a generator walk into a portfolio… Sorry, this isn’t a joke setup—it’s the origin story of PAGE, the Practice Activity Generator Experience that’s making low-stakes learning activities ridiculously easy to create. Armed with Bloom’s Taxonomy, copious amounts of coffee, and Claude’s knack for turning Shawna’s ‘wouldn’t it be cool if…’ into ‘here’s how it works,’ Claude and I built an interactive artifact that helps professors generate engaging online activities for their asynchronous courses. Want to see what happens when pedagogy meets AI collaboration? Click below to generate your own activity.

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Program Outcomes & Assessment

Aligning Course Content to Program Outcomes for Data-Driven Decision Making

Team’s Teams | Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint | Articulate | Canvas | Zoom | QuickBase

Bloom or Boom?

Understanding how learners think is the foundation of everything else. This video breaks down Bloom’s cognitive levels — not as a checklist, but as a practical framework for designing learning that actually moves students toward mastery.

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Course Development Institute (CDI): Faculty Collaboration for Quality Online Learning

12-Week Collaborative Course Development for Online Excellence

MS Teams | Canvas LMS | Adobe Premiere Pro | Closed Captions | Citilabs | UDOIT | Quality Matters

CDI runs concurrent with the Winter, Summer, and Fall Semesters. During this time I partner with faculty to guide them through an intensive 12-week Course Development Institute where we transform traditional in person courses into Quality Matters-aligned online learning experiences. I provide structured guidance on course flow, best practices, lab options, engagement strategies, assessment design, and accessibility standards, to prioritize student success and retention. At this time this has resulted in 20+ Quality Matters aligned courses since 2023. This intensive course development work runs concurrent with Outcomes & Assessment program management, demonstrating my capacity to lead multiple high-impact initiatives simultaneously. I am unable share course content work samples here due to faculty intellectual property rights.

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STOP Supervisor Safety Training: Rapid Transition to Virtual Delivery

Leading Digital Transformation for Safety Training During COVID-19

Zoom | Wheel of Forced Participation | Kahoot |Articulate Storyline

Colored prize wheel with names on it, white instructions say "Click to spin or press control+enter.

Led rapid transition of 6-week Supervisor Safety Training (STOP) from classroom to Zoom delivery at the onset of COVID-19. Designed interactive virtual learning experience for facilities management supervisors unfamiliar with online learning technology. Created facilitator support materials and engagement strategies to ensure effective safety training delivery despite steep learning curve for both instructors and learners.

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The Surplus Property Adventure

Applying Adult Learning Theory to Complex Policy Training

Assetworks Screencast Recording | Camtasia | Canvas LMS | Articulate Storyline

Four buildings on campus representing the four levels of play in this knowledge check of surplus property disposal procedures and software use.

Nobody wants to read a 120-page property disposal manual. So we didn’t make them.

Working with the Surplus Property manager, I applied adult learning principles to transform dense policy and software workflows into interactive online modules — bite-sized, engaging, and actually useful. The capstone: a gamified assessment where learners earn credit toward Property Accounting’s Property Manager Certification. Complex procedures, zero procedural misery.

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