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2020/08 - 2021/05. Public Broadcast Service (PBS) Program Designer & Professionals Instructor

by Hawke Robinson — published Dec 04, 2021 12:15 PM, last modified Nov 21, 2023 11:29 PM
Information about my experience working with PBS.

Consultant and Corporate Trainer

PBS Public Broadcast Service

August 2020 - May 2021

Virginia, USA – www.pbs.org

Corporate Training Games and Accessibility Education Program Designer and Instructor (remote) (contract). Contracted through RPG Therapeutics LLC, provided consulting and educational training services related to recreation therapy, gaming, and accessibility for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) national network in the USA.

 

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Statistics, Roles, & Responsibilities

 

  • Contracted part-time to train PBS staff on recreation therapy concepts, use of games to achieve therapeutic goals, including role-playing games. Populations include children 2-8+ years old, gifted & talented, ADHD, learning disabilities (LD's), accessibility, Autism Spectrum (ASD / PDD) and other neurodiverse).

  • Initially focused on ways to enhance programming for PBS Kids Online, community, and broadcast programming to add recreation therapy approaches to games, including various tabletop, live-action, and electronic games. • Introduction to role-playing games (RPG) (tabletop, live-action, electronic, & hybrids), accessibility in gaming, brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for accessibility & games, & BCI + robotics solutions for accessibility & games.

  • After first live webinar, asked to expand scope to address internal corporate-wide accessibility issues with synchronous online meetings presenting challenges for people with various disabilities. Help consult on improving accessibility internally corporate-wide (expanding beyond the original scope of online, community, and television programming), adjust training sessions to become asynchronous, providing extensive examples of accessibility solutions built into delivery of the training, addressing people with visual impairments & blindness, hearing impairments & deafness. & people with various cognitive differences & neurodiversity challenges. Not just content of training, but delivery as well.

  • Utilized extensive range of methodologies, technologies, & customization:

  • Recreation Therapy & Therapeutic Recreation

  • Cognitive neuropsychology of learning in educational and other settings

  • Videoconferencing development for Zoom and Jitsi

  • [matrix] federated communications, matrix-synapse, element-web / vector / riot, sydent.

  • Moodle Learning Management System (LMS)

  • Odoo Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform

  • Video recording / editing, DaVinci Resolve

  • Closed captioning for Hard of Hearing (HoH) / Deaf

  • Transcriptions for Visually Impaired (VI) / Blind

  • Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Electroencephalogram-based (EEG) technologies

  • Robotics controlled by BCI

  • Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS

  • Web servers Nginx, Apache, IIS

  • SQLite, NoSQL, Postgres, Firebase, Firestore

  • MARKET: Corporate Culture training, Real-time and Asynchronous Learning, Education, Online Education, Recreation Therapy, Role-Playing Game, Professional Development.

August 2020 - May 2021

Corporate Training Program Designer and Instructor

Public Broadcast Service (PBS), Arlington, VA – www.pbs.org

MARKET: Corporate Culture training, Real-time and Asynchronous Learning, Education, Online Education, Recreation Therapy, Role-Playing Game, Professional Development.

Contracted through RPG Therapeutics LLC, provided consulting and educational training services related to recreation therapy, gaming, and accessibility for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) national network in the USA.

Utilized extensive range of methodologies, technologies, & customization:

* Recreation Therapy & Therapeutic Recreation

* Cognitive neuropsychology of learning in educational and other settings

* Videoconferencing development for Zoom and Jitsi

* [matrix] federated communications, matrix-synapse, element-web, sydent, etc.

* Vector / Riot / Element

* Moodle LMS

* Odoo ERP

* Video recording / editing

* Closed captioning for Hard of Hearing (HoH) / Deaf

* Transcriptions for Visually Impaired (VI) / Blind

* Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technologies

* Robotics controlled by BCI

* Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS

* Nginx, Apache, IIS

* SQLite, Postgres, Firebase, Firestore