I am a Learning Experience Designer and…

My journey into education began in the theatre 🎭. As a young teen, I held lead roles in a variety of stage productions, leading to a full scholarship for a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Theatre. This love of oration and improv has lent itself to group facilitation, online as well as in person. I have produced several large group, multi-day events, such as the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People 📚.

Building on my passion for education, I earned an MEd, or Masters of Education 🎓. This academic foundation coupled with several formative years in the classroom have been instrumental in teaching me what it takes to grow employees and serve customers effectively 🌟. By taking what I learned in the classroom and applying it to real-world scenarios, I have been able to design impactful learning experiences that foster both personal and professional growth.

As an LXD 💡, some of my greatest experiences in learning design have come from working with people face-to-face, crafting learning experiences outside the digital space. My background in theatre, combined with my formal education, has uniquely positioned me to create engaging and transformative learning environments.

My main authoring tool for eLearning content is Storyline 360 🎨. I love it for the creative potential it brings, allowing me extreme flexibility when crafting online learning content. I am also comfortable with Rise 360🚀, when microlearning is what is truly needed.

When I started creating digital learning content, one of the skills I quickly honed was voiceover 🎙️. I am extremely proficient at producing quality dialogue for web-based courses, but not a fan of maintaining that content, especially when working with a team.

Enter, WellSaid Labs 🤖. In the age of generative AI, working with a generative voiceover tool has been a game changer. I now have the power to produce content with multiple characters, in high-quality audio, while maintaining my anonymity.

SnagIt may be my most used tool on a regular daily basis. Its ability to screen capture and edit is unsurpassed. Not to mention, it allows me to produce simple GIF images, sometimes all that is needed to show a step-by-step process in motion 📸.

And when it comes to more system-driven tutorials, I regularly create demos of system walk-throughs and changes in Camtasia 🎥. Because most of my work in Camtasia is sensitive in nature, I’m not able to share a lot of these demos in my portfolio. But having started instructional design in the IT department, I have extensive Camtasia chops, believe me.

If you are familiar with Vyond's software, you will see it is heavily used in my portfolio for eLearning. This is because I believe in the power of animation and human characters coupled with narrative to drive online learning 🎬.

I leverage the Adobe Suite to enhance my content creation process, ensuring my instructional materials are both visually appealing, aligned with brand, and effective 🎨.

• Adobe Photoshop: I use it for image editing and manipulation. It helps me create high-quality visuals, edit photos, and design graphics that capture my audience’s attention 🖼️.

• Adobe Illustrator: Perfect for vector graphics, I rely on it to create logos, icons, and illustrations that need to be scalable without losing quality ✏️.

I leverage Figma in the eLearning content creation process for platforms like Storyline 360. Figma offers a powerful, collaborative platform for prototyping. Its real-time collaboration ensure a smooth design process 🤝. I rely on Figma’s components and styles to maintain consistency across my designs 🔄. I can create interactive prototypes that simulate the user experience in Storyline, helping me test and refine my designs 🖥️. Additionally, I can gather feedback from stakeholders, making real-time adjustments, ensuring my designs meet expectation 📝.

AI tools like CoPilot, Claude, Suno, ChatGPT, WellSaid Labs, ElevenLabs, and Adobe Express significantly enhance my instructional design process.

CoPilot, ChatGPT 4o, & Claude assist with coding and scripting for Storyline 360, automating repetitive tasks and generating code snippets, curriculum first drafts, scripts, and live facilitation ice breakers, acting as live assistants 🤖. Suno allows me to craft quality custom music tracks for instructor sessions and background music for media 🎵.

WellSaid Labs & ElevenLabs provide high-quality audio narrations and realistic text-to-speech capabilities, and voice cloning respectively, enhancing the auditory experience for learners 🎙️.

By integrating these into my workflow, I can expedite & automate the design process, better serving learners. 🌟