Professional Development
Explore My Professional Development Sessions
These online lunch-and-learn sessions help facilitators, developers, and other instructional staff to create accessible, usable, and engaging digital learning experiences. The presentations offer practical strategies for designing with learners in mind, making documents and multimedia accessible, building community in Moodle, using H5P for interactive learning, and creating clear, visually engaging PowerPoint slides. Each topic was presented followed by a live demonstration and/or practical exercise.
Professional Development Overview
Explore how clear navigation, consistent layouts, and purposeful design help learners find information and focus on learning. This session highlights practical ways to reduce confusion and improve the usability of digital learning experiences.
Professional Development Overview by Karen BallengeeDesigning with Purpose: Usability for Learning
Explore how clear navigation, consistent layouts, and purposeful design help learners find information and focus on learning. This session highlights practical ways to reduce confusion and improve the usability of digital learning experiences.
Designing with a Purpose: Usability for Learning by Karen BallengeeUnlocking Access: Making Multimedia and Documents Accessible
Explore ways to make documents and multimedia more accessible through meaningful headings, descriptive links, alternative text, captions, and readable visual design. This session emphasizes incorporating accessibility into the design process.
Accessibility.pptx by Karen BallengeeYour Moodle Toolkit for Building Community in Online Courses
Explore ways to use Moodle to encourage communication, collaboration, and a sense of belonging. This session focuses on using Moodle activities and providing opportunities for learners to connect with their instructor and one another.
Your Moodle Toolkit for Building Community in Online Courses by Karen BallengeeMoodle + H5P: The Power Duo for Engaging Online Learning
Explore how H5P activities can enrich Moodle courses with opportunities for interaction, practice, and feedback. This session focuses on choosing activities that support learning goals and encourage active participation.
Moodle + H5P: The Power Duo for Engaging Online Learning by Karen BallengeeEffortless Design: Streamline PowerPoint and Go Beyond Bullet Points
Explore ways to simplify PowerPoint development and create clear, visually engaging instructional slides. This session focuses on consistent design, purposeful visuals, and alternatives to text-heavy bullet lists.
Effortless Design: Streamline PowerPoint and Go Beyond Bullet Points by Karen BallengeeProfessional Development Overview
These five online lunch-and-learn sessions help educators and instructional developers create accessible, usable, and engaging learning experiences. The presentations connect learning design principles with practical strategies for improving digital materials, building community in Moodle, creating interactive H5P activities, and designing effective PowerPoint slides.
My Role
I designed the PowerPoint presentations and facilitated the online lunch-and-learn sessions, translating learning design principles and technology practices into practical guidance for facilitators, developers, and other staff.
Audience
These sessions were designed for facilitators, developers, and other staff who create digital learning materials.
Format
Online lunch-and-learn sessions supported by PowerPoint presentations.
Challenge
Facilitators, developers and other staff need ways to make digital learning easier to navigate, more accessible, and more engaging. These sessions address that need through focused guidance on usability, accessible documents and multimedia, online community, interactive activities, and visual presentation design.
Presentation Collection
- Five professional development PowerPoint presentations
- Online lunch-and-learn sessions on learning design and digital tools
Tools Used
PowerPoint
