Last week, I received my Animal Welfare Assistant Certificate from St. Louis Community College. The program is sponsored by STLCC Continuing Education, the Humane Society of Missouri, St. Louis County Animal Care & Control, and the Animal Protection Association of Missouri. Over the past six months, I’ve attended six classes to earn the certification: Career…
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iPad Superheroes: Teaching in a Digital World
Roberts, J., Harris, S., Kline, K., & Baltrushunas, J. (2015, November). iPad superheroes: Teaching in a digital world. Concurrent session at the 2015 Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference, University of Missouri – St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.Description During the Fall 2015 semester, Maryville University launched a new iPad initiative called Digital World. Maryville partnered…
PAW Helps at APA Canine Carnival
On Sunday, October 4, Partners for Animal Welfare helped the Animal Protective Association of Missouri (APA) at their annual Canine Carnival celebration at Tilles Park. We volunteered in a variety of roles, including guiding visitors in the parking lot; registering dog contestants for contests; dressing up as Hanley, their mascot, and taking pictures with guests;…
PAW Helps Bi-State Pet Food Pantry Again
Yesterday, Partners for Animal Welfare helped Bi-State Pet Food Pantry with their monthly pet food distribution. Bi-State’s mission is to keep pets and pet parents together, even in tough financial times, by providing food and other essentials to pet owners. Each month, Bi-State distributes food to over 100 families in need. We spent the morning…
2015 ATD Conference – Day 4: Leadership, Visual Storytelling, and Creativity
The final day. The final countdown. After four days of mind-blowing sessions and activity, I am officially Orlando’ed out and ready to head home, reflect on what I learned, and apply it to our own design and development. But first, a re-cap of today. The first session I attended, “First-Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring…
2015 ATD Conference – Day 3: eLearning, Context, and Scale
When the first session of the day is the session you are most excited for, you know it’s going to be a good day! “Creating Better e-Learning,” a simple title, yet ultimately it’s my goal for the conference! In this session, the speaker provided three main concepts crucial to serious, effective e-Learning. The first is…
2015 ATD Conference – Day 2: Higher Education, Digital Natives, Digital Fluency, and the ID Pie
I started my Monday at the ATD Conference by participating in the Higher Education Roundtable Discussion. During this event, I was surrounded by HR professionals, instructional designers, and talent management professionals that work within the higher education setting. I met colleagues from Penn State University, University of Florida, and several other universities and colleges. This…
2015 ATD Conference – Day 1: “5 Ways to Open Your Voice and Your Leadership Skills”
The final session of the day was very… quirky in nature. The speaker was a voice coach, and the entire presentation involved singing, yelling, chanting, and strange noises. I was definitely out of my comfort zone, but I thought hey, why not? We all have our own talents and skills, and our voice is how…
2015 ATD Conference – Day 1: “One Person, Two Hats: Coaching SMEs to Facilitate Learning”
In the third session, titled “One Person, Two Hats: Coaching SMEs to Facilitate Learning,” we explored the SME as wearing two hats: that of a content expert and that of a trainer. The speaker identified five types of SMEs: technical, functional (developers of video and learning content), sentinal (person paying the bills, stakeholder), instructional, and…
2015 ATD Conference – Day 1: “Design Thinking for the Instructional Designer”
The second session of the day was perhaps the most thought-provoking session. I was in awe at the end, and felt enlightened and excited to incorporate what I learned in our own design shop. We began the workshop filling out a worksheet, “30 Circles of Instructional Design.” We had 3 minutes and were to work…