Certified to build the room and the curriculum inside it.

I am a certified Master Teacher through the Alamo Colleges District and a certified Canvas course builder. Both certifications mean the same thing in different vocabularies: I am trained, vetted, and continuously evaluated on how to build a course that holds together from learning objective to final assessment.

Twelve years across the Alamo Colleges District.

I have taught at the college level continuously since 2012, across multiple campuses in the district. Currently I am a Visiting Lecturer at St. Philip’s College, where I teach composition, technical writing, integrated reading and writing, and speech and professional communication, and serve on the Instructional Technology Committee.

• St. Philip’s College. Visiting Lecturer. English, technical writing, professional communication. Instructional Technology Committee.
• Northeast Lakeview College. Faculty in the Social Media and Digital Marketing program.
• San Antonio College. Multi-program faculty across music business, ITSE, communication, English, and radio-television-film.

The work is consistent across all of them. I build the course so it holds for a beginning student and a returning adult learner, online and in person, with the technology helping instead of getting in the way.

What instructional technology actually is.

Instructional technology is the practice of designing, building, and operating the systems that hold a course together. The learning-management platform, the assessment rubrics, the accessibility, the discussion infrastructure, the analytics that tell you whether students are actually learning. It is teaching, plus the operating system underneath.

A well-built course is a system. Learning objectives, content, activities, assessment, and feedback all have to talk to each other. When they do not, students drop out, instructors burn out, and the institution writes off the program. When they do, the course holds, the cohort completes, and the institution can repeat it.

Curriculum building is the same craft at a longer time horizon. Instead of one course, you are designing a sequence, a certificate, an apprenticeship pathway, a training program. The pedagogy stays the same. The infrastructure gets larger.

I also build curriculum for the work side of the world.

Everything I do in a college classroom is something a serious organization needs too. The wait staff at a restaurant group, the new associates at a law firm, the front-of-house team at a venue, the development hires at a nonprofit, the technical team at a software company. Every group of people learning their job is a curriculum problem in disguise. Most organizations solve it by handing the new hire a PDF and hoping for the best.

I build it properly. Here is what that looks like:

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Feedback from the room.

If you have a training problem, write to me.

Tell me what you are trying to teach, who is supposed to learn it, and where it currently breaks. I will write back with what a real curriculum or course design would look like, and what it would cost.

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