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 is Director of Round World Media and an Assistant Professor of Multimedia Design at California State University, Monterey Bay.
She has designed and produced video and multimedia projects for clients
that include WGBH Interactive, Britannica, hungryminds.com, The Learning Company,
PeopleSoft, Mattel, and UC Berkeley. She is a long time collaborator with Dr. Douglas Engelbart researching and designing of collaborative hypermedia systems.
She began her career
as Regional Director of the Literacy Campaign in Nicaragua. She then worked
in public television on award-winning documentary programs including Silicon Valley TV series which received numerous awards and
is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution. She also worked
for 60 Minutes with investigative reporters Lowell Bergman and Harry Reasoner
and for legendary singer Paul McCartney.
In the 1990s she became an educational game designer. She worked on Theatrix Interactive's game 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. She also worked on Enhanced Arthur, a prototype for interactive
television for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WGBH Interactive.
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 recent book and online course Developing an Effective Online
Course published by McGraw Hill Primus.
Ms. Landau holds two graduate degrees in the field of Technology in Education,
one from San Francisco State University's School of Education and the
other from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. |
