Google Classes

My Role: Instructional Designer and Facilitator

Skills Utilized: Instructional designing, teaching, performing, comedy, communications, collaborating, innovating, education writing, technical writing, editing, project management, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro.

Subject Matter Areas of Expertise: Collaboration, viral content, stand-up comedy, storytelling, stage fright, performance, improv, joke-writing, satire, writers’ room optimizing

Problem: I taught Google employees in classes that ranged from 15 to 150 students. It could be a challenge to accommodate the widely varying class sizes and many ways that people learn.

Action: I layered teaching techniques to focus on each learning style. To help Googlers who learn best through interaction, I included activities, questions, and quizzes that turn students into participants rather than passive observers. To help students who are visual learners, I included clear, visual examples along with each lesson. To help Googlers who like to synthesize lessons more slowly, I wrote hundreds of pages of info-rich supplemental instructional content.

Results: The workshop that the below slides are part of, as well my other classes, received an average review score of 4.9/5. Many students took my classes multiple times and recommended my classes to friends. Former students have achieved their goals related to the subject matter areas of expertise that I taught.