Aaron L. Smith, Ph.D. E-portfolio
This e-Portfolio contains some of the work
Aaron has compiled over the years
Making Instructional Design Better So You Optimize Learning
click on the three tabs and watch the notes change.
Product Development
The video hooks the audience into buying the
Go Go Bird while explaining that STEAM lessons accompany the kit.
Upon purchasing the kit, students will visit a website and download the lessons.
Blogs
I wrote a blog on the importance of understanding and having both empathy and self-care. This was used to help entice the reader to learn more.
Marketing
This was a quick promo video I did to recruit students into Aviation Academy.
Building Out Courses
Development & Production
My first virtual course
The trailer that you see to the left was my first e-course. It’s called Advanced Learning Strategies That Boost Academic Performance where it provides insight on how learning has changed from in-person to virtual.
In this course, users develop their own virtual tool kit that they could apply those tools to any assignment. Ten lessons accompany video, handouts, downloadable templates for users to access.
Author of Three Books
Awakening Your STEM School providers a roadmap from changing their school to an elite STEM Center.
Blank Check portrays a fictional approach with a burnt-out principal and a troubled teenager who go out and redefine education thanks to a Blank Check.
It helps to spark the discussion, what if we could reinvent public schools.
Study Guide for Blank Check provides innovative activities for students that develop critical thinking.
In this study guide, students use websites to develop projects that tie back into components such as literary terms or reading comprehension.
