I'm a designing fairy.

 

I love all forms of design and I feel the process of designing is better than chocolate -- the compiling, planning, researching and building vision to finished product or program. I've invented products, online classes and a school, activity & self help books, up cycled fashion and social media campaigns.  I use a spark of whimsy and fairy magic in all my designs bringing fun to whatever I create.

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I believe in the Rubber Ducky Theory.

 

Remember as a child you had to take a bath and you moaned and complained? My super creative mom would make baths fun. She introduced stories and bath toys like tiny ships and rubber duckies. I take that idea to the classroom and my projects that even the mundane and the hard can be easier and have an element of fun and creative expression. Adding interactive engagement increases learning (my thesis project over here). And just because you are an adult, doesn't mean your learning can't be fun!

 

I really enjoy inventing for learning, whether Social Emotional, Lifelong or Academic. A teacher at heart and for many years, I teach through what I invent including a Fairy Online School helping the Sensitive, a Haunted House teaching how to draw, or an imaginary mall that helps blast through boxed-in thinking. To create I use my skills in digital and traditional illustration, graphic design, animation, video, and my education, a Master's degree in learning theories and educational technology, and knowledge on how people learn best.

 

During the day you can find me teaching in the classroom over at Pima Community College in the Digital Arts department attempting to make hard, technical programs fun. My current fascination is in how the worlds of Tactile Meets Digital and vice versa.

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