Trainings

 @ Pellissippi State Community College

At Pellissippi State Community College, I am the Instructional Designer for the Pellissippi Academic Center for Excellence (PACE), our teaching and learning center. I work with instructors on course design and accessibility. In addition, I am responsible for the weekly newsletter, the website, and the programming (events, trainings, cohorts) of our center. I have developed and delivered these trainings:

  • 4-week Training Academy (Collaborative project with 3 other trainers)
  • 2-week Online Course Design intensive workshop
  • Universal Design for Learning (co-led)
  • The Microsoft Cloud
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Digital Accessibility Basics
  • 8-week course design cohorts (co-led)
  • And multiple e-learning modules for different subject areas:

Training Videos & E-Learning Modules

My playlist of accessibility training videos:

@ Portland Community College

At Portland Community College, I offered trainings twice a month (in-person and online) on creating and curating accessible content for online courses. In addition, I was invited to train beyond PCC:

Title: â€œWeb accessibility for online educators”
Description: In-person training on VPATs and verifying accessibility of 3rd party content, Alternative text for images, Captioning video, and transcribing audio, Testing keyboard accessibility of media players and Putting it all together in a web page and in documents. (3.5 hour)
Presented to:  Instructional Technology Council E-Learning Pre-Conference Session
On: February 2016

Title: “Web page and Document accessibility“
Description: In-person training on how to make an accessible Canvas web page and how to make accessible Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents. (2 hour)
Presented to: University of Western States
On: January 2016

Title: “Web page and Document accessibility“
Description: Web-based training on how to make a D2L Brightspace web page accessible and how to make accessible Word documents. (1 hour)
Presented to: Oakland Community College
On: January 2016

WAMOE MOOC

Title:  “WAMOE: Web accessibility MOOC for online educators“
Description: 5 Week MOOC co-developed and taught with Barry Dahl from D2L Brightspace Open Courses. Training covers: VPATs and verifying accessibility of 3rd party content, Alternative text for images, Captioning video, and transcribing audio, Testing keyboard accessibility of media players and Putting it all together in a web page and in documents.
Presented to: Over 3000 online instructors, instructional designers, distance learning staff
On: Offered three times Fall, 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2014

Title:  “Web accessibility for online educators“
Description: In-person training that covered: VPATs and verifying accessibility of 3rd party content, Alternative text for images, Captioning video, and transcribing audio, Testing keyboard accessibility of media players and Putting it all together in a web page and in documents. (2 days)
Presented to: Michigan Online Consortium at their summer retreat (Traverse City, MI)
On: June 2015

Title: “Image Accessibility”
Description: Co-presented/trained in-person with Melany Budiman on image accessibility. (1 hour)
Co-Presented to: Northwest Managers of Educational Technology
On: 2011