My Instructional Design Portfolio

Thursday
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Take a look at my Portfolio.  

To view Sally Russick's portfolio in a new window click HERE!
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Design Work for IUP's Early Childhood Education Certificate Program!

Monday

In 2020, I was given a fantastic opportunity to work with Dr. Tricia Sheldon and the OCDEL team to create a marketing campaign for IUP's Early Childhood Education Certificate program.  The campaign went public in May of this year and I was notified by this lovely shout-out on Linkedin!







Here's a look at the brochures and flyers -  




I would like to express my deepest thanks and appreciation for allowing me the opportunity to work with such a wonderful team and allowing me creative freedom with the designs!   



You can find out more information about the programs by clicking the links provided below.
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I Earned My Design Thinking Certificate from ELL

eLearning Launch Design Thinking Certificate

On July 1st, 2021, I earned my Applied Design Thinking Certificate from eLearning Launch. This course was a fantastic mix of theory and real-world learning and I couldn't be more grateful to Myra Roldan for everything she brought to the table!  From the critical thinking group assignments to spitballing, time blocking, and prototyping... 

Design thinking process of empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test
Design thinking process. Created by Sally Russick in Canva.  Girl with computer graphic source - Getillustrations.com


This non-linear process is extremely helpful in tackling problems that are not well-defined or easily answered. Start by understanding the learners/users' needs, reframing the problem (How might we?), by spitballing and brainstorming to gain many ideas (Timeblocking sessions work great for this step!), and adopting a hands-on approach to prototyping and testing.  Using the design thinking process has empowered me to solve complex problems that occur when working to develop a seminar.

Here's a look into my team's design thinking process.
  

 

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A little bit of website building...

Saturday

 

website front page. Had a header image with three photos of flowers and the header reads "Life in Focus"

Before I began my journey into the field of instructional design and technology, I would fiddle around with designing and building websites.  What piqued my interest in designing and developing websites was blogging, more specifically blogging about photos.  Why photos?  Well, I enjoy taking photos, editing photos, and everything about photography.  Looking through the lens of a camera provides you with a different perspective.  This post contains images of a website I created for a website design and development course a few years ago.  The website was based on a year-long group project I ran on a blog I had many years ago.  Each week, I would provide a prompt and sample photo, and based on this prompt the group would capture the ordinary, extraordinary, everyday stuff, things, moments in their lives.   



I see more and more, instructional design programs pulling their web-building courses from the curriculum instead of moving them to a core requirement, and that is unfortunate.  Working in the field of instructional design, instructional designers need to have an arsenal of tools at the ready.  More and more, basic HTML and CSS skills are becoming a requirement.  Whether it is building a course in an LMS or working in e-authoring software, you as an instructional designer will eventually run into some type of coding. As our roles as instructional designers change, we must also, and learning to code should be part of that evolution.  


screen shot of the contact page of my web site

Part of the FAQ section of my website design and an background image of a hand holding a mobile phone.

Screenshot of the About Me section of my website


Did you know I'm a jewelry maker?  I taught jewelry-making classes and workshops (face-to-face and online, too)!  
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Mood Boards - digital collage of ideas

Friday



Grids of images, fonts and colors in the colors of turquoise, off-white and red
Mood Board created in Adobe Photoshop by Sally Russick


- Mood boards are a great way to spark creativity. 
- You can create a board that inspires and spawns thinking from a different perspective.
- Creating them assists you in learning a new design tool, refine skills by reacquainting yourself with a tool you haven't used in a while.   
- Mood boards provide a broad tool for early on in a project to help you determine the most general ideas about the look and feel of the content.
- What to include? anything — photography, images, graphics, designs or illustrations, color palettes, textures, descriptive words — anything that helps you define the direction of your project.


Grids of images, fonts and colors in the colors of turquoise, yellow and grey.
Mood Board created in Affinity Designer by Sally Russick



Image Sources: Images used in the above collage are from Unsplash.com and Pexels.com.
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