Teaching Experience
2019-2021, Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Villa Maria College
GRA240, Introduction to Web Design, 4 credits, undergraduate-level, Villa Maria College, Spring 2021 (Syllabus, Course Evaluation — coming soon)
GRA340, Advanced Web Design, 4 credits, undergraduate-level, Villa Maria College, Fall 2020 (Syllabus, Course Evaluation)
GRA240, Introduction to Web Design, 4 credits, undergraduate-level, Villa Maria College, Spring 2020 (Syllabus, Course Evaluation)
GRA340, Advanced Web Design, 4 credits, undergraduate-level, Villa Maria College, Fall 2019 (Syllabus, Course Evaluation)
FDM204, Introduction to Fashion Illustration, 4 credits, undergraduate-level, Villa Maria College, Fall 2019 (Syllabus, Course Evaluation)
Selected Student Work:
GRA340 Fall 2019: Tai Chi Bubble Tea Adobe XD Website Prototype
GRA340 Fall 2019: Tai Chi Bubble Tea Bootstrap Landing Page (to open: download the file from Google Drive, double click on the file to open the .zip folder, and double click on “index.html” inside the folder)
GRA340 Fall 2019: Milk Makeup Bootstrap Website (to open: download the file from Google Drive, double click on the file to open the .zip folder, and double click on “index.html” inside the folder)
GRA340 Fall 2019: Ashker’s Bootstrap Landing Page (to open: download the file from Google Drive, double click on the file to open the .zip folder, and double click on “index.html” inside the folder)
GRA340 Fall 2020: William's Florist Adobe XD Website Prototype
GRA340 Fall 2020: Nike Bootstrap Website (to open: download the file from Google Drive, double click on the file to open the .zip folder, and double click on “index.html” inside the folder)
GRA240 Spring 2021: Insomnia Cookies Bootstrap Website (to open: download the file from Google Drive, double click on the file to open the .zip folder, and double click on “index.html” inside the folder)
GRA240 Spring 2021: Johnny Labella’s Pizza Adobe XD Website Prototype
GRA240 Spring 2020: Google Homepage Replication with HTML5/CSS3
GRA240 Spring 2020: Google Homepage Replication with HTML5/CSS3
Course evaluations word cloud generated from students’ comments (frequency of words showing up 5 or more times in comments are shown)
Teaching Assistant Experience
Architectural History: Ancient - 1450 for Dr. Hadas Steiner, 4 credits, graduate- and undergraduate-level, University at Buffalo, Fall 2016
Architectural History: 1450 - Present for Dr. Hadas Steiner, 4 credits, graduate- and undergraduate-level, University at Buffalo, Spring 2016
Introduction to Architecture for Gregory Delaney, 4 credits, undergraduate-level, University at Buffalo, Fall 2015
Selected Student Work: GRA340, Advanced Web Design, Website Positioning Statements:
The first part of the final project of Advanced Web Design consists of a positioning statement that outlines the following:
The new websites’s logo optimized for web applications (scales down well, vector)
Website Icons
User-interface kit (H1, H2, H3, body, button styles, CSS)
Typography
Site Map
Photography Optimized for Web (rgb and 72 px)
Hexadecimal Color System
Website Purpose Write-Ups
User Path Outline
In the second portion, students create their website prototypes in Adobe XD and program a landing page based consistent with the positioning statement and prototype designs in Bootstrap.
Leading up to the final project, the course has students create a basic three-page website in each of the following formats:
HTML only
HTML and CSS
Bootstrap
Dreamweaver (Students have the option of importing either a Bootstrap or other CSS template into Dreamweaver)
WordPress
Low-Fidelity Wire-Frames in Adobe InDesign
