Psychosocial Impacts of Disasters on Children
Radiation Disaster Response for Children
Challenge
The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) and Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Military Medicine contracted directly with bytes & words to scope and develop training for health professionals addressing two subject areas: (1) psychosocial impacts and (2) radiation response for children during and after disasters.
My Role
As company principal and lead instructional designer, I handled all aspects of instructional design and contracting with this government client, including stakeholder engagement/management and direction of the government website developer to embed and launch two courses on the NCDMPH public website.
Action(s)
Wrote the master Design Documents, interactions and course design specifications; reorganized written content in consultation with project management and SMEs; re-wrote content for online presentation and developed downloadable resources as well as case studies. Storyboarded content, writing interactions and Knowledge Checks. Designed Graphical User Interface and photo treatments, conducted photo image search (paid stock and defense agencies); managed production artist and supported on-site web developer during course development through quality assurance.
Result(s)
Produced two engaging and highly visual online courses for the NCDMPH pediatric curriculum from text-based content. Presented information through interactions and cases studies ways to help learners connect and find relevance within their area of practice.
Project Link(s):
- NCDMPH Lesson Design Document
- Psychosocial Impacts sample storyboards
- Radiation Disaster Issues sample storyboards
Working with Mollie McCormick was a pleasure from start to finish! She applied her significant instructional design expertise to our pediatric disaster health online lessons, creating a fantastic interactive platform for what can be challenging material. Mollie was always incredibly professional and deadline driven.
