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During the Winter of 2009, Prince George's Community College has implemented a training program for students on how to use the tools and features in Blackboard. These tutorials are offered through Blackboard in a schedule-like fashion. However, students can also use the tutorials as needed to help them through their online or hybrid course.
Click on the link below to view this website
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~bwalker/distance_learning/student_technology/
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During this Fall of 2008, Prince George's Community College has implemented a training and development program for all faculty who teach online. The primary Learning Management System is Blackboard. All faculty who are new to teaching online or hybrid are required to completely finish Quailty Matters prior to developing and teaching their online course.
Click on the link below to view this website
http://www.pgcconline.com/QM/
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During this Fall and Winter of 2008, I have been developing a website for Dr. Karen Jacobs, professor of Occupational Therapy at Boston University. This is part of a 4 year research study involving Middle and High School students in Yarmouth, Maine. The research is to determine the ergonomics of said students while they are working on computers. New ergonomics techniques will be implemented.
Click on the link below to view this website
http://www.ergonomicsfortherapists.com
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Click on the link above to view this website.
In the Summer of 2008, I created a website that shows how to use a website and simulations to introduce and teach barometers. The title of this project, "Barometer: How to Measure Pressure," shows a barometer is used today to measure weather reports via atospheric pressure in the air. This is a prototype example of how effective media would play in the instruction of this lesson. This project is available in both English and Spanish.
This project has a specific interactive flash application called "Ascent to Mount Everest." It shows the learner the different obstacles that hikers face in route to the summit of Mount Everest. To view this interactive module, click on the following link:
http://www.bybster.com/mteverestsim/index.html
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Click on the link above to view a powerpoint presentation pertaining to this website.
In the Summer of 2008, I worked on a project with faculty of Sargent College's Department of Occupational Therapy. In an effort to help online OTD students collaborate more effectively, I developed a prorotype companion to Blackboard Vista called "Sargent College Online." This interface provides links to asynchronous Web 2.0 learning tools like wikis, blogs, podcasts, and forums.
I was able to present this research to a prospective employer as a model of my instructional design knowledge and skills. To view this website, click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/sargentonline
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Click on the link above to view documentation.
In the Spring of 2008, I had the opportunity to work in an internship capacity to a location of my choice. This internship was directed by my school advisor in a class entitled CT900: Independent Study.
SixRedMarbles is an educational media solutions company with a great reputation for providing a wide variety of quality educational media to K-12, corporate, and adult learning clients.
As an intern, I was able to contribute my knowledge and experience directly into the different projects. More importantly, I learn several invaluable skills in the area of graphic user-interfaces, web development, instructional video development, storyboarding, wireframing, and quality assurance. To view their website, click on the following link:
http://www.sixredmarbles.com
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Click on link above to view SITE conference presentation.
In the Summer of 2007, I worked on an independent project through my work at Boston University's Sargent College to implement a new, useful technology into the classroom. After many surveys, questionaires, and observations, I was able to research the possible need for Smartboard or Sympodium technologies in the college. As a college of Health Sciences, faculty would benefit significantly from a technology that provides more interaction to their class presentation. The response to these new technologies was very encouraging and the college has now purchased two sympodiums and 1 smartboard.
I was able to present my findings at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference held on March 3-7, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. The link below is to the abstract of my presentation. To view the pbublished abstract to this presentation, click on the following link:
http://site.aace.org/
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Click on link above to view complete documentation to this game.
In the Spring of 2007, I had the opportunity to take two classes that collaborated on the same projects. They were entitled EM617: Advanced Development of Interactive Media and EM802: Interactive Design.
In the first class, I learned the theoretical and behavioral backgrounds behind user design, including designing for the user. In the second class, I applied these skills while learning Macromedia Flash to create an interactive game. This game was created by myself and another student. Although the game is not a full version, it does allow the user to navigate through an activity for 2-3 grade students in the area of Language Arts. To play the complete game, click on the following link:
http://www.brycewalker.net/games/
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Click on the link above to view magazine.
As part of my current employment position at Boston University's Sargent College, I am involved in the publication of the annual college magazine, entitled "Inside Sargent."
In collaboration with the public relations and comunications at Sargent College, I worked in the posting of this magazine to the Sargent College website.
"Inside Sargent" takes a look into each department in Sargent College. These are Athletic Training, Health Science, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Speech, Language, and Hearing Pathology. To visit the website where this magazine is located, click on the following link:
http://www.bu.edu/sargent/about/inside-sargent/
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Click on the link above to view documentation.
In the Fall of 2006, I had the opportunity to work as a temp a Deltek Software. Deltek creates accounting software for Architectural and Engineering firms. I had a variety of responsibilities while working 3 months at this location. Among these, was the opportunity to help the packaging of training manuals and software.
In my course entitled EM701: Instructional Design, I was given a final assignment to create a solution to a key need at a location of work. Through several conversations, I learned that Deltek had trouble with training and turn-over in their sales consulting position. This project details a solution to this problem. To view Deltek's company website, click on the following link:
http://www.deltek.com/
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feel free to contact me about anything concerning
this portfolio: brycewalker@bybster.com
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Bryce L. Walker
Alexandria, Virginia 22310 USA
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