Developing an Effective Online Course
An online course distributed by the California Virtual Campus. Written by Valerie Landau
Developing an Effective Online Course Book published by McGraw Hill Primus. Available on Amazon. Written by Valerie Landau
Math Heads Game
Valerie Landau served as an educational game designer for the award-winning game Award-winning game Math Heads.
Word Heads
Valerie Landau was the lead designer for the educational prize-winning game Word Heads.
See it, Hear it, Do it: Flash 5 an Interactive Tutorial for Macromedia's Flash 5 written and produced by Valerie Landau.
Distributed by Peachpit Press.
Britannica
School
Valerie Landau managed the production of hundreds of graphics and animations to illustrate Britannica.com
Math Study Guides.
Enhanced Arthur
Enhanced Arthur, Valerie served as an instructional designer for this prototype for interactive television for KTEH funded by CPB.
Valerie Landau has supervised several innovative Student Projects
Online Linear Regression Calculator
Valerie Landau designed and produced several interactive multimedia learning objects including an online linear regression calculator.
The Chicken Made of Rags
Valerie served as Project Manager and Instructional Designer for accompanying teachers guide and workbook.
Silicon Valley PBS TV Series
On permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution
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Valerie Landau consults and designs educational multimedia projects. She is Assistant Professor of Multimedia Design at California State University, Monterey Bay.
She is an experienced instructional interaction designer and has worked on several award-winning projects.
She is currently co-authoring a book with computer visionary, Dr. Douglas Engelbart and Eileen Clegg, "Raising the Collective IQ."
She began her career
as Regional Director of the Literacy Campaign in Nicaragua and then worked
in public television on award-winning documentary programs including the Silicon Valley TV series which received numerous awards and
is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution. She also worked
for CBS 60 Minutes with investigative reporters Lowell Bergman and Harry Reasoner
and for legendary singer Paul McCartney.
In the 1990s she worked as an educational game designer at Theatrix Interactive where she she worked on several games including Math Heads,
winner of the SPA Codie Award Nomination for Best Consumer Creativity
Software and the Platinum Award in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio in 1996 and Word Heads, Parents Choice Gold Medal Award-winner.
After founding Round World Media her design projects included the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WGBH Interactive on prototype for interactive
television for called Enhanced Arthur as well as Mattel and The Learning Company.
She served as Supervisor of Instructional Development for the Foothill/DeAnza
Community College District and founded the Multimedia Studies Program
at Ohlone College. She was awarded the Online Pioneer Award at
Ohlone College and worked with the California Virtual Campus to develop
the book and online course Developing an Effective Online
Course published by McGraw Hill Primus.
Ms. Landau received a Master's Degree from the Department of Instructional Technology,
from San Francisco State University and a post-graduate Certificate of Advanced Study from the Department of Technology and Innovation from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. |
Valerie Landau: Portfolio 2006