AudioVisual with print:
Free-lance (1976-present)
- Instructional Dynamics Incorporated (Chicago)
•Wrote outlines for 14 workbook lessons with cassette scripts
•Wrote workbook activities
•Wrote cassette teaching scripts (for young adults at 2nd-grade reading level)
- Imperial International Learning (Kankakee)
•Wrote 24 activity sheets and 12 cassette scripts for reading program
•Wrote 12 humorous short stories, 24 coordinated activity sheets, and 12 humorous cassette scripts to teach them
Full-time
- Society For Visual Education, Inc. [SVE] (Chicago, 1974-76)
Writer/Producer, multimedia kits
•Multiplication: Rewrote and produced (including recording and mixing) 8 sound filmstrips
·Wrote and produced 16 cassette scripts and 8 response cards
·Invented a low-level and advanced game for multiplication
·Worked out details on a multiplication algorithm game
·Helped plan and oversee development of module
•Division: Wrote and produced (including recording and mixing 6 sound filmstrips
·Wrote and produced 12 cassette scripts and 6 response cards
·Helped plan and oversee development of module
•Metric: Wrote and produced 4 sound filmstrips
·Invented a game for learning metric symbols
·Helped plan and oversee development of module
Average number of scripts written and produced: four/month
Project Director, multimedia kits
•Matter-and-Energy: Researched and developed science module
·Compiled a 17-page new-product proposal
·Studied 10 science textbooks for a correlation report
·Prepared an estimated external cost budget for the module
·Prepared an estimated manufacturing budget for the module
·Developed and wrote 4 sound filmstrips with audio follow-ups
·Selected artists, photographer, music, sound effects, and on-screen and voice-over actors
·Oversaw and approved art, photography, and typesetting
·Developed, designed, and oversaw artist's rendering of "conservation of matter and energy" poster
·Directed recording and mix
·Tested module components with grade-school children
Free-lance (prior to 1976)
•Worked on filmstrip scripts for and sold a filmstrip story at 3rd-grade level to Encyclopaedia Britannica
Print only:
Free-lance (1976-present)
- Quarasan, Inc. (Chicago)
•Wrote 7th-grade & 8th-grade Earth Science chapters plus several cross-discipline activities for Glencoe Press textbook series
- The H. M. Rowe Company (Baltimore)
•Wrote 10 4-page specialized vocabulary pamphlets
•Wrote lead article for Rowe's business educators' newsletter
- [For future publication]
•Wrote college vocabulary text/workbook
•Writing programed-learning punctuation text/workbook
•Writing color-coded "grammar made easy" text/workbook
•Wrote 2 children's story books (one with 2 songs)
- Society for Visual Education (Chicago)
•Wrote various activity sheets and teachers' manuals for Olympics, mystery, and sci-fi filmstrips, etc.
•Wrote 2 nuclear-war filmstrips
•Wrote other activity sheets sets with teachers' guides
- Career World Children's Magazines
•Wrote articles for several issues
•Wrote column for one year
Full-time
- Benefic Press (Westchester, Illinois, 1971-72)
Managing Editor, Science Department
•Ghost-wrote a guidance textbook for junior high
•Rewrote two art textbooks for fourth and sixth grades
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