Ruth C. Smith's Portfolio: : Page 2

Mobile Video Framework

In an introductory fashion course, there were typically 30+ students huddled around one machine trying to view very detailed and complicated demonstrations. As a result, many of the students were not gaining or retaining the knowledge of basic sewing skills that they would need when performing these skills in this and future courses. For instance, […]

Psychology 101 Online Module

Students in an on-campus Psych 101 course at NC State seemed to struggle with a module on how the eye works. While the content was covered in depth in lecture and in the textbook, they seemed to have trouble visualizing some of the concepts and how these concepts related to one another. Solution I worked […]

Faculty Course Development Resource Site

Every year, NCSU awards IDEA Grants to faculty for online course development projects. The instructional design team wanted to create a resource that would pull together best practices in course development and also allow IDEA grant recipients to connect with one another. Solution: I led efforts to create an IDEA Grants Resource site in Moodle […]

Map Annotation Tool

Students studying literature from past eras often are challenged with relating to the content in terms of life situations during the time in which the work was written. Historic maps are sometimes used to help students bring context to written words. In ENG 251, Major British Writers, the instructor wished to use maps for this […]

Women’s Center of Wake County Website

The Women’s Center of Wake County wanted to make changes to their website. Originally. they just wanted to update a few HTML pages but after discussing their needs, I recommended redeveloping the site using WordPress. Some of these needs included the ability for multiple individuals within the organization to update and add content and the ability to […]

Design Course: Digital Painting

I worked with an instructor at NC State to create a hybrid and fully online version of his Digital Painting course. The instructor’s primary goals when we started were: To create content and demonstrations online that were easy to update and build upon, and To facilitate formal and informal group critique online in an asynchronous environment. […]