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Kimberly T. Monti

Manassas, VA
United States

“Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.” Margaret Lee Runbeck

Welcome!

After 10+ years of working in the non-profit/human services world, I decided to move in a different direction career wise. Although successful in program management and non-profit administration, I realized the aspects of my work that I find most rewarding are in training and technology. I decided to pursue educational and professional opportunities where I can use my organization, management and leadership skills in Instructional Technology and Workforce Development.

George Mason University - Instructional Technology Program

Fairfax, VA, United States

Jan 2007 - May 2008

M.Ed., Instructional Design and Development

College of Education and Human Development, Instructional Technology Program

Immersion

The Instructional Design and Development (IDD) Masters Cohort is designed to allow students to "immerse themselves in several project-based experiences that require them to utilize their instructional design, development and management skills through authentic practice." In Immersion, the students are a part of a design team that must analyze an authentic problem and design, develop, implement and evaluate an instructional solution to that problem. The students are the ones that hold the cards in term of project development and implementation, with guidance provided by GMU instructors in an advisory capacity. Additional information can be found on the GMU IDD Immersion Program website.

My Immersion team was responsible for the initial design and development of a virtual collaboration center for implementation through the Virginia Department of Education’s Training/Technical Assistance Center web site, which provides training and support to school district staff serving children with disabilities in Virginia.

The team was involved with the following activities:

Conducted performance analysis to identify drivers, barriers, and goals for the project.
Conducted an in-depth needs analysis to identify the current and desired collaborative environment, appropriate synchronous and asynchronous collaborative tools, and web-based applications and software to enhance online delivery of training and technical assistance.
Created personas and essential use cases to design prototype of user interface.
Conducted usability testing of synchronous web conferencing tool.

As an Immersion team member, I was responsible for:

Facilitating team activities during Fall 2007 semester as team Project Coordinator.
Facilitating design and development of support for online training development.

As a result of my Immersion experience, I was exposed to a variety of Web 2.0 technologies, including wikis, blogs, and social bookmarking, during the design and development process.