My projects have included:
Education and E-Learning:
Instructional Designer
- Worked with SMEs to create course outlines and assessments for four health science courses.
- Worked with SMEs to revise three endocrinology courses and create multimedia for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Created Instructor Guides and Participant Workbook for in-classroom corporate training on running meetings.
- Reviewed and edited Facilitator Guide and four modules for Grandparent-Grandchild Connection curriculum.
- Wrote course outlines, learning objectives, readings, activities, and rubrics to convert five in-classroom courses on creativity into online courses.
- Wrote study guide activities for Google’s Doodle 4 Google student contest for Grades K-3, Grades 4-7, and Grades 8-12.
- Worked with subject matter experts to write scripts for video lectures for three community college IT courses.
- Wrote 72 chapter summaries, resource guides and PowerPoint presentations and worked with subject matter experts to create 10 online tutorials to accompany the Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World textbook.
- Wrote a demo critical thinking storyboard to accompany a Cengage textbook.
- Wrote a call center training storyboard for e-learning course.
- Wrote entries on “sagging,” The Onion, Wikipedia and Wired magazine for the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
- Wrote a case study on anorexia for a Kaplan University psychology course.
- Revised learning objectives and edited course syllabi for online division of the College of Westchester.
- Wrote question foils and edited reading lessons for teacher’s edition of Grade 2 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys textbook.
- Wrote student activities for teacher’s edition of social studies textbook, Grades K-6.
Children’s Author
- Wrote the book Under Armour, a profile of the sports apparel company aimed at middle and high school readers, as part of the ABDO Essential Library Sports Brands series.
- Wrote an updated version of a Norwegian fairy tale for the Pickatale story app.
- Wrote an article on the Secrets of the Sea Vents for Cricket Media Group’s ASK (Arts & Sciences for Kids) magazine.
- Wrote an article on the Backwards Brain Bicycle for ASK magazine.
- Wrote an article on AustraliaDay/SurvivalDay for Cricket Media Group’s FACES magazine.
Copywriter:
- Wrote copy for mini-magazine for AARP’s Ace Your Retirement campaign.
- Wrote three resource guides for Google’s Made with Code initiative, aimed at getting girls interested in coding and computer science.
- Wrote online gift guide and promotional emails for Highlights magazines, books, and games.
- Wrote content for website and fliers for launch of Innovate + Educate’s Claim Your Talent campaign, designed to close the U.S. skills gap.
- Wrote content for relaunch of GI Research Foundation’s fundraising website.
- Wrote, revised and edited content for relaunch of website for Aqueduct Development, an app and website development company.
Copy Editor:
- Proofread 192-page book published by The American Assembly, On the Edge: America’s Middle Neighborhoods.
- Edited 12 video scripts on writing and grammar to accompany Cengage textbook.
- Created style guide and copy editing process as well as edited articles, databases and reports for launch of Medicare NewsGroup, aimed at journalists who cover Medicare.
- Edited articles written by A.T. Kearney’s management consultants for the 2010 edition of Executive Agenda and edited white papers for the firm’s website.
- Copy edited the book Lyin’ Cheatin’ Bastards, which pokes fun at U.S. political scandals.
- Worked with subject matter experts to revise and edit Kaplan University Graduate Education and Educational Studies courses.
- Edited 170-page faculty-written e-book for Kaplan University introductory psychology course.
- Edited China Focus, a four-book series for Grades 4-6.
- Revised and edited proposal for Mission Point marketing communications.