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Sandy Cobb
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Instructional Technology
Specialist
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Designer of Online Learning
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Master Certified
Internet Webmaster (CIW) Designer
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CIW-Certified Instructor
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Certified Macromedia
Professional
Email:
sandysue9@comcast.net
Printable Resume in
RTF - last updated April 2008
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Professional Experience:
March 2008 - Present Kaplan University
Academic Program Manager MSIT /BSIT |
Responsible for:
- Program and Course Development; this includes working with Instructional Designers, Department Chairs, and Developers
- Manage migration Issues
- Analyze trends and data
- Work on marketing plans
- Work with Academic Advisors
January, 2000 - March, 2008
Mid South Community College, West Memphis, AR.
*Director
University Center / Instructional Technology
*Dean of
Instructional
Technology
*Information Systems Technology Dept. Program Chair
*CIW - Certified Instructor
*College Webmaster
Responsible for:
- Training and assisting
faculty to use technology for teaching
- Training and
assisting faculty with
online course development
- Training and
assisting faculty with
creation of learning materials for mastery
learning and assessment
- Designing and
implementing faculty development training
- Structuring guidelines and training for
online course development and online
teaching
- Managing and teaching - CIW Faculty
Training Institute
- Managing and teaching - Continuing Ed.
CIW Train the Trainer
- Online Course Development
- Serve as Program Chair for the I. S.
Department
- Instructional Designer
- Various curriculum
related duties
- Blackboard
administration
Timeline
- Spring 2000:
Hired as a college instructor to
teach both credit and non credit
classes in various computer technologies
- Fall 2001:
Promoted to
Information Systems Technology
Program Chair
- Summer 2003:
Promoted to Director of Curriculum and
Instructional Technology
- Summer 2005:
Promoted to Dean of Instructional Technology
- Summer 2007:
Change to Director University Center /
Instructional Technology
Accomplishments
- Fall 2000:
Implemented
CIW
Certificate of Proficiency in Web Site
Design
- Fall 2001:
Implemented
CIW
option of AAS I. S. Degree
- Summer 2002:
Instructor for the CIW Faculty Training Institute
(MSCC become one of the first FTI)
- Fall 2003: Designed the Capstone Project course
for AAS students (still teaching this
course)
- Fall 2003:
Designed & developed a custom course
"Instructional Design Skills for Online
Learning" for faculty
- Spring 2004:
Implemented the "Instructional Design Skills
for Online Learning" training for faculty
- Spring 2005:
Launched the MSCC
Shared Learning Objects website to
showcase and freely share faculty created
learning objects
- Spring 2005:
Designed and launched two new faculty
development online workshops:
"Designing the Learning Experience and
Integrating the use of Blackboard With the
Creation of a Master Course"
- Spring 2005:
Spearheaded the MSCC
Master
Course Initiative
**Since my promotion to Director of
Instructional Technology, I primarily teach
faculty in the professional development
venue. I do still facilitate the
Capstone Project course for AAS students.
**Extensive
experience with curriculum
and course development /
instructional design
for both online and face-to-face
instruction.
**Extensive experience
with development of learning objects and
materials for faculty development, with a major
emphasis on active and mastery learning.
Contract /
Consulting (Contract basis)
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Technical editing for
McGraw Hill Publishing
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Authoring Technical
Skills Activities for NWCET
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Authoring Test Banks -
McGraw Hill Publishing and Boson
August, 1996 - December 31, 1999, Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc., Memphis, TN
Corporate Computer Training Specialist
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Duties include teaching computer software skills to new and existing employees via
classroom, desk side, PC Anywhere to employees in remote branches, travel to branches,
seminars and intranet Virtual Classroom. My primary duty is to document, design and
present training materials and classes for multiple custom and proprietary programs for
existing and new employees. Employee/trainees consist mainly of Stock
Brokers/Financial Advisors, Sales Assistants, Bankers, Analyst and other high level
professionals. In addition I create training documentation, presentation tutorials
and web content. I also manage all contracts for purchase of training materials such
as Editors and Computer Based Training. I support employee users by phone as well as one
on one consult. From time to time I am called upon to analyze need and design Access
applications, Excel or Word templates PowerPoint presentations, etc.
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In addition, I designed, implemented, and maintain the company's intranet based
"Virtual Classroom" web site.
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Co designed on site training center which includes 19 PCs, ceiling mounted
projector/LCD, and sound system. This is where I present classroom training at least one
day each week.
7/95 to 7/96 Marion Community Hospital Carbondale, PA
PC Specialist
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Duties included purchasing PC hardware and software, designing and implementing training
for all employees and support. Software package of choice was Lotus Smart Suite.
Responsible for repair and upgrade of all PC's.
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| Education and Technical Training:
UALR
- Little Rock, AR
Masters of Education -
Concentration in Learning Systems
Technology - 2005
Capella
University - Minneapolis, MN.
Bachelor Degree in Information Technology
- Concentration in Graphics and
Multimedia - 2003
Keystone College - Laplume, PA
AAS: Computer Information Systems
- 1994
Wilkes University, Wilkes-barre, PA
- Course work in Cobol programming
Penn State University, Wilkes-barre, PA
- Course work in Dbase programming
Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
- Course work in Psychology
Williamsport Community College, Williamsport, PA
New Horizons Computer Training, Memphis,
TN
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January & March 2003 - Cold Fusion
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December 2001 - Fundamentals of CGI using Perl
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April 2001 - Advanced Macromedia Flash 5
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March 2001 - Active Server Pages
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Feb. 2001- Perl Fundamentals
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June 2000 - Certified Internet Webmaster E-commerce
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March 2000 - Certified Internet Webmaster Foundations
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August 1999 Advanced HTML
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June 1999 - Certified Internet Webmaster
Design Methodology & Technology
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Spring 1999 Introduction to HTML and Intermediate HTML
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Fall 1998 Advanced FrontPage 98, Intermediate FrontPage and Introduction to
FrontPage
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1997 multiple Advanced classes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and ACT!
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| Certifications:
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| Presentations: |
Adding
Streaming, Talking Lecture
Presentations to Online Course Sites
October 14, 2003, AATYC conference
in Hot Springs, AR. |
CIW
Authorized Academic Partner
January 17, 2002, Annual Winter
Conference, Mississippi Technical
Schools |
CIW
Faculty Training Institute
October 14, 2002, AATYC conference
in Hot Springs, AR. |
Bringing CIW to the
Community College
Co-presenter with Jerry Baird, CEO
of Prosoft
Training, and Neil Evans, CEO NWCET
November, 2001, Innovations
2001, Minneapolis, MN |
Bringing CIW to the
Community College
October, 2001, AATYC conference in Hot Springs, AR |
How to create a Web site
to compliment a live class using Blackboard
October, 2001 at Mississippi County Community College, AR |
How to create a Web site
to compliment a live class using Blackboard
April, 2000 at Marion High School, Marion, AR |
Get Connected - How to
create a Web site to compliment a live class using Blackboard
October, 2000 at the AATYC conference in Little Rock, AR |
An overview of how faculty
at my college are using Blackboard to create Web sites to compliment live
classes
November, 2000 at the INNOVATIONS 2000 conference, in Anaheim, CA
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| Computer
Applications and languages I am Proficient in and can teach |
Applications:
- Dreamweaver
- PhotoShop
- Flash
- Various other multi media tools
- Blackboard - for online
course sites
- Captivate
- Impatica
- SoftChalk
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Languages
/ Technologies:
Certified to teach:
- CIW Foundations
- CIW Site Designer
- CIW E-Commerce
- CIW JavaScript
- Microsoft
Office Suite
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