I did my internship with CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) to design a course for their Digital Faculty, especially those new to online teaching. I had initially wanted to build it in their LMS (D2L) but due to time constraints and the learning curve, we opted to create…
What was the most challenging part of this course for you personally? Honestly? Getting started. I suspect a combination of burnout from the first half of the semester (course involving the service learning project) and a distaste for the textbook: walls of text, heading levels that weren’t used the same,…
Fall 2019: This was a group project for a course on Universal Design for Learning. In this assignment, Honest Ally Food International put out a Request for Proposal for a program to promote strategies aimed at addressing food insecurity. Previous group projects were done via email or in-person. For this…
For this assignment, we were told to find a gap in the literature. Research UDL, differentiated instruction, and instructional design in the instructional setting I plan to go into (military, health care, education, etc.). Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the information presented in the research. Identify the gap and, utilizing future…
Paper and Presentation on Antibiotic Resistance created for a Medical Anthropology course I took for the fun of it. And yes, it was fun—I ended up learning way more about microbiology than I ever anticipated in writing this one! Inspiration came from a podcast I'd heard a few years ago…
Why "Trapped in Love"? In 2010, we had a son, Keith Alton. Our daughter was 7 years old at the time and had long blond hair. She would hover over him in his bouncy seat, making it so it was just her face and his inside a wall of blond…
Paper written for a British Romanticism class exploring grief in three of Wordsworth's poems: Surprised by joy, We are seven, and Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/05/Exploring-Grief-Wordsworth.pdf" title="Exploring Grief - Wordsworth"]
A - Albany, Georgia. That’s where I was born, but I grew up in neighboring Leesburg (home of Luke Bryan and Phillip Phillips!). When asked where you’re from, you still would say “Albany” (pronounced all-BEN-ny). It’s sort of like people who live just outside of Atlanta. It’s easier to say…
Though this wasn’t my first “real” job, it was my first significant job and the one that taught me what career path I did NOT want. I was a cashier at Lowe’s in Albany, Georgia. Because of that job, as long as I know they’re actually trying, I have the…