https://betzabeth.com/portfolio/print/diaries_nco_flyer.pdf
Indian Country Diaries is a program that appeared on public television in the fall of 2006. This flier was created to promote the program at the 2005 NCO Conference.
Technology Skills
Educator’s Employment Fair
This project was designed to facilitate the posting and searching of open teaching positions at the Educator’s Employment Fair at UNK. In the past, this was done using a word-processor, but this site was built using a database with records for each of the positions that were open. Using this method, open positions could be searched by endorsement, location, or school. It also allowed students who were looking for a job to return to this website prior to the fair to get contact information for the schools or to search for positions.
ART 870C: Frank Lloyd Wright Biography
In this Art Independent Study course, I had the opportunity to study the aspects of motion design and to learn new software packages. I audited an undergraduate class called Electronic Imaging and also worked on my own outside projects with guidance from an art faculty member. I gained a lot of knowledge about design from this class, which I hope to be able to apply to the remaining classes that I take and to any instructional or web designs that I create. This project was created in Director and there is no longer a plug-in that allows you to interact with this piece as it was designed.
Bermuda Triangle Mystery
These interactive animations were designed to help students and teachers unravel the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. The user starts by plotting the location of the Bermuda Triangle on a map. Next they are taught how to plot latitude-longitude and relative locations. Then they are gradually guided through into finding the locations of the ships and planes that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
Reflection
I mainly used Flash to create this interactive piece. It helps teach students to understand latitude-longitude and how to find locations on the map given these coordinates. It also goes into how to find relative locations when given a point of reference to measure from. When you complete this interactive piece, you learn that not all of the airplanes that disappeared did so in the area of the Bermuda triangle. The mystery of what happened to cause these disappearances is what gets our attention. A lot of people have theories, but no one really knows how they disappeared. I enjoyed creating this project and feel that it has the potential to teach students a lot. It really asks them to think and to wonder what really happened and how can the disappearances be explained.