Michaella A. Thornton
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My usage of educational technology took earnest flight when I served as a writing center resource specialist for an exclusively online university from May 2009 to January 2012.

For two years after my Online Writing Lab (OWL) experience, I served as the Assistant Director for Instructional Design at the Paul C. Reinert, S.J. Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at Saint Louis University, where I had the good fortune of colla
borating with faculty and staff to think intentionally and creatively about course design in the contemporary college learning environment.

As an award-winning educator who has also taught full-time in higher education, I love using technology to help students tell compelling, researched stories about their lives, communities, and the world. 


Some examples of my instructional design work include: 
  • Build a pop-up interdisciplinary course and assessments with the professor's guidance and lead the educational technology processes and services that allow the course to be offered as an online, hybrid, and face-to-face offering to undergraduate and graduate students (Fall 2022)
  • Design and present a "From the Page to Performance" writing workshop for the St. Louis County Library (October 2022)
  • Develop presentations, icebreakers, and job aids for a Fortune 500 company through freelance work with Lead with Levity (2021)
  • Create test preparation materials for the written portion of the SAT through freelance work with Lemma 
  • Curate a faculty conversation series I created and hosted for the Olin Center for Digital Education's  YouTube channel. Conversation topics included: "Less Is More," "Animation for Education," "Why Create An Animation?" "Academic Integrity," "Teaching with Poll Everywhere," and "Cultivating Fun (Yes, Really) During A Pandemic"
  • Create "Rubrics, Oh, Rubrics, How I Love Thee" for Washington University's Center for Digital Education
  • Create Inclusive Teaching Resources for Saint Louis University's Reinert Center
  • Co-Present "Food for Thought: Collaborative Course Design and Social Media in the Writing Classroom" with Dr. Jenny Agnew, Saint Louis University, at the Focus on Teaching & Technology Conference 
  • Create the "Resource of the Week" series for the Kaplan University Writing Center (now Purdue Global University)
  • Design the Writing Center Resource Retrospective for an exclusively online writing center, Kaplan University Writing Center​

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