From After-School to Higher Ed: My Transition to Instructional Design

2016. What a year, huh? Last I wrote, I had just returned from an exciting trip in South Africa where I presented at Ed Tech South Africa. Since then, I led a game design workshop on culturally relevant pedagogy at the 2016 Scratch Conference, my band played our third gig at Sidewalk Cafe, and I transitioned from Online Leadership Program Associate at Global Kids, Inc. to Instructional Design Coordinator at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing (Meyers for short). That last one was a big move for me, which means more new experiences and more new challenges are ahead (this seems to be a recurring theme in my blog posts). Here’s a sort of self-ingratiating post about what career move has been like, what I’m working on now, and a few specific things I’ve learned along the way about being an instructional designer at a higher ed institution.

Me posing with Scratch Cat at the 2016 Scratch Conference at MIT.

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