Instructional Designer/Developer

Janet Meek

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Educator ~ Instructional Designer ~ Trainer ~ Researcher ~ Project Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT COORDINATOR – Engineering Education Department-Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2016-present

Coordinate services needed for the support of First Year Engineering (FYE) Program

Create, maintain and populate Blackboard LMS courses for > 15 sections of blended FYE courses

Work with Learning Objectives when creating course content, especially Online Modules

Work closely with faculty, graduate students and staff to support the creation of online modules using PowerPoint, Camtasia, articulāte (Storyline), Captivate and Kaltura

Assure that online materials and modules are ADA compliant (captioning, tagging, etc.)

Function as, and work with campus Instructional Designer(s) and IT support for Blackboard and online module development and maintenance

Quality Matters (QM) training

ADJUNCT FACULTY – Harrison College, Indianapolis, IN 2014

Taught a blended course on Information Literacy using Angel Learning Management System (LMS)

Course focused on utilizing 21st Century research skills, how to use the Internet and manage information

BRC ADMINISTRATOR – Kelly Services, Indianapolis, IN 2014–2015

On assignment at Fortune 500 Company, Dow AgroSciences, LLC

Support Biological Research Compliance team

Update web site using Microsoft Web Expressions, document management using SharePoint, and Management of Change (MOC) using WebMOC

Administrative tasks–extensive use of full suite of Microsoft Office, especially Excel

ASSISTANT TRAINER – IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 2013–2014

Assisted–Trained software workshops, face to face as well as online using: Adobe Connect, MS Office 2013 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Developer) Microsoft Project, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, and SharePoint

Helped with marketing projects

SUBSTITUTE TEACHER – The Oaks Academy, Indianapolis, IN 2012–2015

Assisted school staff by teaching preK–8 level students; Facilitated discussions and followed lesson plans

LIBRARY CONSULTANT/REFERENCE LIBRARIAN – Indiana State Library Indianapolis, IN 2004–2012

Consulted with libraries in the state about legislation, resource sharing, and technology

Created prototype web tutorial for first time Trustee Certification program

Maintained Library Development Office web pages using Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Publisher and PageMaker

Provided reference service for Indiana Division–online chat, in person and written correspondence

Coordinated Read to Me program for incarcerated parents

Composed grant to augment funding

Developed programs and wrote training materials for Indiana History Collection at the State Library, e.g., The Hoosier Salon, Woodblock Prints, and The History of Publishing and Printing in Indiana

Janet Meek

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING RESOURCES – Sanford Brown College, Fenton, MO 2003–2004

Directed Learning Resource Centers for five campuses

Directed projects for five librarians, library assistants, as well as part-time and student workers

Managed student web site and faculty web site; delegated various aspects to librarians, staff, etc.

Managed archive digitization project

Designed and taught two credit hour library skills class as component of business research class

LIBRARIAN/WEB DEVELOPER/ANALYST – Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, MO 1996–2002

Constructed, designed, and maintained internet web pages and served as webmaster for Research Department

Facilitated web redesign committee and facilitated system wide search engine work group

Presented to system group annual conference on redesign issues and best practices

Evaluated software packages for meta-tag, report writing, search engines

Liaison to other departments for web development, including Y2K work group

Searched databases: Dow-Jones, Lexis-Nexis, Dialog, Data Times and the internet

Coordinated barcode project for addition of Circulation module of online catalog (OPAC)

Assisted with construction of Payment Systems database

INDEXER – MD Consult–Mosby Publishers (Free-lance), St. Louis, MO 1996–1997

Using MeSH Subject Headings, assigned index terms for medical database project

INSTALLATION SPECIALIST – Data Research Associates, St. Louis, MO 1994

Provided on-site training to assist customers with data conversion for integrated library system

Composed translation tables and specification letters for data conversion

Developed and managed implementation schedules for multiple clients, simultaneously

Functioned as project manager

ASSISTANT REFERENCE LIBRARIAN – IU Research Collections, Bloomington, IN 1990–1994

Selected titles for the Reference Collection in the areas of English Language and Literature, American Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Art

Conducted tours, designed workshops on various CD-ROM products, and taught bibliographic instruction credit classes

Supervised interlibrary borrowing activities

Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS)/Humanities Computing Project

Wrote and edited tutorials for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), ARTFL (French Language), and served as administrator of an internet GOPHER for the project

Editor for Indiana University Librarian Association (InULA) newsletter

BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION LIBRARIAN – University of Evansville, Evansville, IN 1986–1990

Coordinated five librarians and all services for course integrated Bibliographic Instruction (BI) as well as developed new approaches to library instruction

Awarded Arts, Research and Teaching Summer Stipend Grant for initiating a three credit hour, 300 level course: Information Literacy in an Information Age

Revised and completed the execution of an Eli Lilly Faculty Development Grant and directed twelve workshops–the workshops instructed faculty in online search techniques. Composed and submitted final report to the Lilly Foundation

Janet Meek

EDUCATION

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. M.L.S, Library and Information Science

Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. B.A. French major, English minor-English Graduate Assistant

OTHER EDUCATION

University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. Continuing Education & Outreach Program. Classes in C programming, HTML. DHTML, CSS & JavaScript. XML Workshop

Webster University, St. Louis, MO. Graduate course in Interactive Media

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Graduate readings course in Humanities Computing and Electronic Texts

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Graduate courses in French Linguistics, Early American Intellectual History

Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, Montpellier, France, Institute d'Études Françaises pour Étrangers

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Instructor-University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Library Education Experimental Program (LEEP)–Distance Learning, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Taught Online Information Systems to graduate students using locally created (UI) LMS. I taught from

St. Louis, Missouri to students around the world.

Adjunct Lecturer-Library Instruction Unit, University Libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Taught an eight week, one credit hour library skills course

Adjunct Lecturer-English Department, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana

Taught English Composition 104

Adjunct Lecturer-Intensive English Center, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana.

Taught English Composition 110 to International Students

Graduate Assistant-English Department, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Taught freshman composition class and assisted students in writing laboratory

PUBLICATIONS

Hine, Betsy N., Ruth Miller, and Janet Meek. "Bibliographic Instruction for the Adult Student in an Academic Library." Journal of Continuing Higher Education 32, no. 2 (1989): 20-24.

Index for book: Weeks, Andrew. Boehme: An Intellectual History of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Bibliographic verification for book: Geddes, Leslie A, LaNelle E. Geddes. Catheter Introducers. Chicago: Mobium Press, 1993.

Various acknowledgements.

References upon request

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