In January 2022, I along with two of my colleagues Dr. Rachel McBroom and Dr. Thomas Cooper were asked to participate in the SYS Presents: Adventures in Online Education’s Season 2 Episode 24 podcast on the work that we do at NC Virtual to provide a high-quality education to a wide variety of students. In the episode, we shared that virtual education can its promise of providing high quality courses and instruction across socio-economic and geographic divides.

In May 2022, I was asked to contribute to an article titled A Billion Reasons Why Accessibility Matters that Quality Matters was writing to support Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The article includes a short video where I shared the working definition I use for accessibility, the explanation for my why accessibility is important to me, and provides some valuable resources to assist others with developing accessible content.

In 2019, I co-presented a session titled Instructional Design in Math and World Language Courses with my colleague Dr. Geetanjali Soni for the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance (VLLA) monthly Instructional Design Roundtable session. I discussed strategies for generating appropriate alternative text in math and options for building accessible mathematical learning objects in Articulate Storyline.

In 2020, I was tasked with generating a 5-minute or less summary video of the objectives and strategies that were tied to Goal On of the organization’s Strategic Plan. I used Articulate Storyline to create the presentation and then used a Mac-based software called Screenflow to screen record and narrate the video. Finally, I imported the narrated video into iMovie where I added some background music.

At NC Virtual, we write a majority of our course content internally using certified teachers as Content Writers and Content Reviewers. In doing so, we need to have a way to validate that the information being generated by the course developers is authentic and not copied/pasted from the Web. As a result, we have developed a process where we run all the course content documents through Unicheck which is a plagiarism checker that is similar to TurnItIn which is what educators and professors might use to assess the originality of student submissions. The video below is a tutorial I created to show members of my team a quick and efficient way of pulling down all the documents and text content in a previously build Canvas course so that it can be scanned in Unicheck.

In July 2022, I was contacted by the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance (VLLA) about serving as the Subject Matter Expert for their July Standards in Practice Publication which was focused on Standards G2 and G3. Please visit the July 2022 S.I.P Issue 10 link to view the final version of the publication.

I have been working with various aspects of accessible design since 2012. Over the course of the past 10 years, I have moved away from focusing on the legal implications and aspects of accessibility to focus more on the human impact non-accessible content can have on various individuals. I have spent time observing students and teachers in residential schools for the deaf and/or hard of hearing and the visually impaired as well as other students in local districts throughout the state of North Carolina. As a result, I developed the following presentation which has received national recognition as the 2018 winner for the Best-in-Track Award for the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate Conference.

Between 2020 and 2022, I developed and presented a series of instructional design workshops aimed at providing students with high quality blended and online learning experiences in the Moodle learning management system. Below are a few recordings of those webinars:

National Distance Learning Week- Microsoft Word Online Accessibility Features

National Distance Learning Week- Microsoft Office 365 Student Tutorial

National Distance Learning Week- SCULPT Accessibility Design Process

Instructional Design Webinar- Oh The Choices We Have with Moodle Quizzes

Instructional Design Webinar- Creating Effective Assignments

Instructional Design Webinar- Teaching Through Announcements, Pages, and Books

Tackling Attendance in Online Courses Webinar