Chris Friend Listening & Learning Teacher, speaker, and podcaster specializing in introducing newcomers to conversations around education, writing, and technology. Learn More
Curriculum design, instructional design, document design, or audio editing? Let’s get to work.
Career educator with broad design skills can strengthen your team, sharpen your brand, or shape your classes.
Curriculum Development
Created two week-long seminars on critical digital pedagogy for general audiences and for Digital Humanities. Iterated four complete FYC sequences incorporating NCTE standards & CWPA outcomes, two sets of institutional standards, and fluid departmental expectations.
Professional Training
Designed three-course sequence to teach business writing to government employees, adapting to organizational precedent and incorporating disciplinary best practices.
Hybrid Learning Design
Research-based and practical experience designing and facilitating hybrid courses from small seminars to MOOCs. Adapts course design to needs and expectations of participants as well as institutional technology standards.
Digital Publishing
Experience working with a variety of publication platforms, including building anthologies of student research papers in LaTeX, maintaining WordPress-based class blogs, creating a Ghost-based digital scholarly journal, and hosting a podcast on WordPress and SoundCloud.
The world—especially the world of academia—expects specialized experts. I’m more of a generalist, with a wide set of shallow skills…rare and useful.Read full post >
Formulaic assignments may make grading superficially easier, but they become boring and dehumanizing. Assignments should be fun to grade.Read full post >
People often worry that charging an EV is difficult or expensive. Neither is true. There are more ways to charge an EV than to fuel a gas car.Read full post >
