I enjoy delivering content through feature rich, interactive, web development. I am fairly comfortable utilizing this form and I find it works well with instructional design.
These following examples are from four courses (two in fall 2019, one in spring 2021 and one in fall 2021). These projects had fast turnaround times. The “Genomic Sequencing” project was completed in 2-days with a presentation given by me on day 3. “Anti-Principles for Design Thinking” was written and built over a period of 3-days, with a presentation later that week.
I always have a “Cool Things to Share” forum in my asynchronous courses. These interactive nuggets were added to share some food for design thinking for site viewers and my peers in my graduate program.
Genomic Sequencing and the Omicron Variant Rob Thomas Final Project for ITEC 740, Fall 2021 Header image: screenshot of “Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus –
The following “anti-principles for design thinking” were written as a way for me to formally map my own production process in my Instructional Design Products Studio course
Header photo: Exterior of ahha Tulsa by the author (March, 2021). Instructional Design Studio Work I’m using this post to more artfully share my deliverables for my
Creating Transformative Educational Experiences for Adult Learners in Asynchronous Courses: Approaches, Problems, and an Experiment in eLearning. By Rob Thomas, Ph.D. © 2019 ITEC 800
This presentation is about the e-learning platform for adult learners I’ve been talking about building for years, and which I finally began to develop as
Left image: How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot by John Muir (1971). Source: Amazon.com
Those who are truly contemporary, who truly belong to their time, are those who neither perfectly coincide with it nor adjust themselves to its demands.
1. Working With H5P In this emerging tech demo, I’ll be looking at H5P—located at H5P.org—an online platform for delivering feature rich HTML5 content and
1. Thinking With Shoes I was recently reminded of Liam Kyle Sullivan’s 2006 electro-clash, viral video, “Shoes.” I was teaching the work of photographer and
1. Making instructional videos In this instructional demo, I’ll be writing about my experiences designing media rich online learning environments for adults using LumaTouch’s video editing app,
Bruce Mau w/ Sanford Kwinter
“Designing for the Cluster”
Instant Stories: Wim Wenders
Fallen Fruit
The Eames, Powers of Ten
How to Make AR Polaroids
“Shoes” viral video by Liam Sullivan
Eadweard Muybridge reference (photo) in Rick and Morty “Ricksky Business”
Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera designed by Charles and Ray Eames
I’m Rob Thomas. My journey to instructional design has taken me from being a street artist while working in warehouses in Seattle to being homeless for two years before finishing my undergraduate degree at Evergreen State College to being recruited immediately upon graduation to work on the Microsoft Encarta ‘98 CD-ROM Encyclopedia. I left the Pacific Northwest that year in August of 1997 to pursue a MA in Humanities at San Francisco State University, studied closely with Giorgio Agamben at UC Berkeley in 1999, and completed my Ph.D. in Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism at Binghamton University in 2005. I have served as a Lecturer Faculty member at San Francisco State University since 2003. My focus since 2017 has been on the transformative potential of online learning. I am proud to be completing the third MA of my academic career, this time in Instructional Design and Technology (IDT), in December of 2022 at San Francisco State University.
Instructional Design and Technology (instructional.io) is devoted to the art of online teaching. I hope it’s slightly different from most instructional design sites because of the unlikely journey I’ve taken, from interactive designer of educational software in the 1990’s, to poststructuralist scholar and lecturer faculty, to specializing in the creation of media rich online learning environments, and now to instructional designer. I hope this will be a fun place to share thoughts, ideas, tools, lessons, and various projects related to my work as a student of instructional design as well as a scholar and teacher I am currently earning my fourth advanced degree (from ITEC at SFSU). Thanks so much for stopping by. My teaching portfolio can be found at: https://theorist.io
