I’ve created lesson tours for teachers and have trained teachers and students how to use the Tour It tool for place-based learning. Tour It helps students practice their creativity, cultural awareness, and technical proficiency through digital storytelling.

OpenSkill develops open education resources (Active OER) that foster essential workforce skills as part of a $2.5M funded program by the Department of Education. I directed the pre-adoption phase which involved collaboratively designing the tools, creating promotional media (including the animation above), and coordinating with three partner colleges.

Digital lessons should tell stories, and we can creatively use online media to tell them. I’ve created lessons where students have hiked up glaciers, used social media to identify rhetoric, and examined real-time burn data to understand the impact of climate change both locally and nationally. (The example introductory illustration sequence below was co-created with Chris Andert and Leon Manfredi.)