Building the future of learning technology

Syllabus Coder

A custom GPT for deterministic, auditable syllabus analysis. It processes Excel workbooks with a Python-based backend, using pandas and openpyxl to clean HTML-heavy syllabus text, derive modality from section tokens, normalize and group duplicates, apply rule-based policy codes and rubric scores, and generate QA-validated workbooks with summary tables, flags, and high-risk review evidence.

CTL Canvas Scholar

CWI's first dual-mode instructional assistant serving 600+ faculty members. Functions as both Canvas LMS technician and instructional design consultant, ensuring alignment with institutional standards while providing seamless technology and pedagogy support.

Dr. Ausubel GPT

A specialized instructional design consultant that guides educators through theory-based learning experience creation using Gagné's Nine Events, Merrill's First Principles, and Ausubel's Advance Organizers. Provides practical, adaptable strategies for course design across any subject or goal.

Mentor Mira

Gamified instructional design mentor that guides aspiring designers through realistic case studies. Differentiates instruction based on learner preferences and dynamically scaffolds challenges for progressive skill development.

Math Notes Transcriber

A verification-first system that converts handwritten mathematics into LaTeX-validated transcripts and diagram-accurate vector graphics. Preserves instructor intent and detects high-risk ambiguities.

Clara the Citation Assistant

Specialized citation support for APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. Generates RIS files and export formats compatible with EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley.

Andrew's Literature Mapper

An interactive visual canvas for researchers to map, organize, and discover relationships across scholarly sources. Features drag-and-drop nodes, color-coded categorization, DOI-based metadata fetching, keyword-driven auto-connections, and multiple layout views, with JSON save/load, PNG export, and CSV import.

Andrew's Dissertation Tracker

A client-side progress management tool guiding PhD students through every dissertation stage. Features per-stage task management, subtask due dates with overdue alerts, contextual tips, a wellness monitor, and printable progress reports.

Statistics Navigator & Encyclopedia

A single-file React application with three integrated modules: a guided Navigator to the right statistical test, a searchable Encyclopedia of 167 cross-linked terms across 12 categories, and interactive Tables & Calculators replacing traditional z, t, chi-square, F, effect size, and sample size lookup tables.

Andrew's Knowledge Graph Generator

A D3.js-powered visualization tool that transforms simple markdown notation into interactive, force-directed knowledge graphs. Supports hierarchical topics, cross-references, clickable URLs, and color-coded domains, with file save/load and PNG export.

Andrew's Sankey Chart Generator

A browser-based flow visualization tool built with D3.js and d3-sankey. Users define node relationships and flow values in a lightweight markdown syntax. Designed for mapping conceptual progressions like learning theory evolution and curricular pathways.

Checkbox Controller

A lightweight Chrome/Edge extension that selects or deselects all checkboxes on any webpage with a single click. Built to streamline repetitive LMS administration tasks. Published on the Chrome Web Store.

Canvas Course Files Auditor

An agentic browser automation prompt that performs comprehensive file audits across Canvas LMS courses, cross-referencing deployment across modules, pages, assignments, and quizzes, then generating a structured audit report identifying unused, duplicate, and orphaned files.

Windows App · Microsoft Store

Cascade Columns

Desktop file manager · published under Applied Arts

A Windows file manager built around Miller columns, the browsing model from the macOS Finder. Rather than replacing the view each time a folder opens, every folder becomes a new column to the right, so the path taken through a deep tree stays visible. Quick Look previews open on the spacebar for documents, media, PDFs, and 3D models (STL, OBJ, PLY, 3MF, and glTF/GLB), alongside Finder-style color tags, tabbed browsing, recursive search, full keyboard control, and native Windows context menus and file operations with undo. It makes no network connections and collects no data.

A browser-based SCORM authoring tool for instructors. Faculty build mixed interactive activities, including animated flashcards, multiple-choice, choose-multiple, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, and matching items, either by entering content directly or by importing Word and PDF documents. AI-assisted prompts help draft activities, and editable project files let instructors save their work and reopen it later. Built-in preview, flexible grading, and SCORM 1.2 export make finished activities ready to upload to Canvas.

Applied Arts PDF Remediator

A hosted web application that automatically remediates PDF accessibility issues to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards (ADA/Section 508). Faculty drag in a PDF and receive a remediated copy in under a minute, with titles, language tags, heading structure, alt text, bookmarks, tab order, and OCR handled automatically. Python/Flask backend with the Anthropic Claude API for contextual alt text.

SCOUT — Local Browser Agent

A locally-hosted agentic browser automation system powered by LM Studio and an RTX 5090. Built with browser-use, FastAPI, and PyWebView, SCOUT performs multi-step web research, navigation, and data extraction through a local LLM with no cloud dependency, with live WebSocket step streaming.

CTL 201 Canvas Series

A faculty-facing series of Canvas LMS training modules covering the essential workflows an instructor needs to operate the platform confidently. Built for CWI's Center for Teaching & Learning.

• M05Create an AssignmentLaunch →
• M07Create and Add a Discussion BoardLaunch →
• M10GroupsLaunch →
• M12Copying, Moving, DeletingLaunch →

Blackboard New Text Editor Help

Walkthrough of Blackboard's redesigned content editor, built to ease the transition for instructors moving between editor versions. Demonstrates each tool, common formatting tasks, and the small differences that trip people up.

Student Calculator Basics

Step-by-step training on operating the Casio fx-115ES Plus scientific calculator, built around a working software emulator. Custom JavaScript pulls student data directly from the LMS for personalized context, a network of interlocking triggers drives the emulator's logic, progress is visibly tracked on-screen, and a custom numeric handling technique bypasses Storyline's native two-decimal precision limit.

Blackboard Basics Badge

Student-facing micro-credential designed to ramp up first-time learners on the Blackboard LMS environment. Covers navigation, submitting work, checking grades, and the core day-to-day actions a new student needs.

Microsoft 365 Badge

Student micro-credential covering the essential Microsoft 365 tools they're expected to know on day one — Outlook, Word, OneDrive, Teams, and the rest of the productivity suite. Self-paced with embedded checks.

Student Transfer Fair

Interactive orientation built for transfer students. Surfaces transfer policies, partner institutions, advising contacts, and the steps a student takes when moving credits in or out of CWI.

Fit to Print

An early SCORM-compliant Storyline experiment: a self-paced course teaching graphic designers how to correctly format artwork for commercial printing. Tackles missing bleeds, broken margins, and incorrect color palettes — chronic prepress problems that routinely cost designers $60-$100/hr in repair fees. Designed with Universal Design for Learning principles.

Brain Explorer

Anatomy-focused interactive module letting learners explore brain regions with illustrated callouts and progressive disclosure. An exercise in pairing visual design with structured discovery.

Displaced Antechamber

A first artistic experiment with Storyline 360's immersive interactive feature, made when the feature first became available. An art piece first, but it doubles as a demonstration of the immersive mode treated as a creative medium rather than a training tool.

AI Generated Images

A gallery of first experiments with generative AI image tools, captured when DALL-E Mini and the earliest publicly available providers were brand new. Documents what those models could and couldn't do at the moment they entered the public consciousness.

Connections Project (CWI 2023)

Interactive module built for the College of Western Idaho's 2023 Connections Project, an annual showcase celebrating culture, education, innovation, and achievement. Open to CWI students, faculty, and staff as well as community members across the Treasure Valley.

Developing an AI-Based Mathematics Tutor

A formative validation of the Scaffolded LLM Tutoring Design Framework (SLTDF), a design model that synthesizes ten learning science constructs into seven auditable tutoring behaviors and instantiates them in the Math Tutor GPT, built for community college students preparing for math placement testing. Eight expert reviewers evaluated the Tutor through scenario-based interactions: six of seven behaviors showed moderate-to-high design fidelity, and the study yielded five transferable design principles for prompt-engineered LLM tutors.

Project Presentation

A guided walkthrough of the study: the problem, the framework, the expert review, and where the Tutor goes next.

Math Tutor GPT, Issue #1

The study retold as a 16-page interactive comic, an experiment in making design research legible beyond the report format.

Full Project Report

The complete 149-page study: theoretical framework, methodology, per-behavior results, and the five design principles, with full reviewer data in the appendices.

Theory-Guided GPT Tutoring and Math Placement Preparation in Community College

A quantitative proposal, designed but not carried out as research: a quasi-experimental comparison asking whether a GPT tutor engineered around instructional theory outperforms a baseline GPT tutor on placement-aligned math outcomes at CWI's Math Solutions Center (ANCOVA with pretest covariate, target n of 60 to 100), paired with a hierarchical regression testing whether scaffolded hint use, mastery-check completion, and attempts before solution reveal predict posttest scores.

• Full proposal (PDF, 16 pages)View →
• Defense presentation slides (PDF, 13 slides)View →

First GPT-Based Instructional Agents

Created and deployed CWI's first suite of AI instructional agents including Dr. Ausubel GPT, Mentor Mira, and CTL Canvas Scholar, revolutionizing faculty support and student learning assistance.

Unity/Canvas VR Integration

Built CWI's first Unity-integrated VR simulation with Canvas LMS connectivity, plus 360° Storyline modules for immersive learning experiences.

DEQA Automation Tool

Developed automated course quality assurance system using GPT Operator Agent to streamline evaluation processes and maintain design standards.

Template Course System

Established institution-wide course naming conventions and version control lifecycle, enabling automated course duplication and eliminating administrative errors in semester rollouts.

SharePoint AI Integration

Created SharePoint-integrated task flows using Power Automate and adaptive AI scripting to enhance institutional workflow efficiency.

Applied Learning Assets

Developed Student Calculator Basics, Brain Explorer, and other STEM-focused interactive learning tools with Mager/Bloom framework alignment.

Advisory Board Member

UW-Stout Master of Education Advisory Board (only alumnus invited)

Conference Representative

Represented CWI at ASU and AECT Immersive Summit (2025)

Invited Speaker

Instructional technology roundtables and AI-in-education panels

CORE 1: Foundational Frameworks HE

Explores the impact of technology on student learning and how Canvas improves student motivation and achievement. Demonstrated ability to apply technology integration frameworks (including SAMR) and implement Canvas best practices.

CORE 2: Engagement Strategies HE

Examined ways Canvas enriches teaching through engagement strategies that motivate learners and increase participation. Demonstrated ability to define and measure engagement and use engagement data to inform instructional design.

CORE 3: Personalized Learning HE

Investigated the power of personalized learning through student voice and choice. Demonstrated ability to leverage Canvas with blended learning approaches to create student-centered learning experiences.

CORE 4: Transformational Practices with Digital Tools HE

Evaluated digital learning tools that promote communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. Demonstrated ability to evaluate tools that transform instruction and design for responsible engagement.

Books

Devourer of science fiction, fantasy, and history. The book budget is ludicrous and would call for intervention if it were for anything else.

Amateur Radio

National Association for Amateur Radio member. RF is its own kind of magic.

Amateur Chef

Having a blast, as always. Recipes welcomed.

Geek Gamer

Yes, it's true. Tabletop and digital both.

Fractal Tinkering

Currently learning Mandelbulb3D when time permits. Endless visual rabbit hole.

Custom PC Building

Designing and building custom computers as a hobby, plus endless software tinkering.

VØLT Analog Subtractive Synthesizer

A fully self-contained browser-based synthesizer built on the Web Audio API. An 8-voice polyphonic engine with dual oscillators, analog drift modeling, a complete subtractive signal chain, independent ADSR envelopes, routable LFO, 16/32-step sequencer with swing, and full project save/export—all in a single HTML file.

MUD Engine v2.0

A browser-based Multi-User Dungeon engine with a built-in World Editor for creating custom adventures. Character creation, turn-based combat, inventory management, NPC interactions, and a day/night cycle, wrapped in a classic terminal-style interface.

Sorting Algorithm Encyclopedia

An interactive encyclopedia and visualizer featuring 80 sorting algorithms across 10 categories. Each algorithm includes animated bar visualizations, pseudocode, complexity analysis, and fun facts. Built with React.

Trigonometry Explorer

An interactive trigonometry learning tool featuring a real-time unit circle that maps sine, cosine, and tangent values to animated waveforms, with special angle presets, triangle visualization, and Fourier waveform synthesis.

Team Ball Escape Race

A physics-based team competition where 20 balls race to escape through a green boundary ring, claiming rotating polygon segments through consecutive hits, with a live leaderboard tracking escape order and team scores.

3D Fractal Explorer

A real-time 3D fractal renderer powered by WebGL ray marching shaders. Explore six fractal types—Mandelbulb, Menger Sponge, Mandelbox, Sierpinski Tetrahedron, 3D Julia Set, and KIFS—with interactive camera controls and dynamic color palettes.

Mini Missile Command

A faithful browser remake of the 1980 Atari classic. Launch counter-missiles and protect your cities from waves of incoming strikes, with escalating difficulty, chain-reaction explosions, and that satisfying retro arcade tension.

A Taxonomy of Educational Theory Diagrams

A tongue-in-cheek visual catalog observing that nearly all educational theory diagrams fall into just four shapes: pyramids, cycles, Venn diagrams, and ladders. Highlights the conspicuous absence of networks, spirals, and phase diagrams from the field's visual vocabulary.

Symbolex

Symbolic reasoning and translation engine encoding natural language into Symbolect—a hybrid semiotic language based on emoji, set theory, and quantum notation.

Erasmus GPT

Speculative human engineering theorist for conceptual creation of bespoke individuals. Integrates neuroscience, cognitive psychology, biomechatronics, and genetic engineering to model emergent traits across science and fiction.

WOPR

Interactive retro-strategy supercomputer modeled after the 1983 WarGames system. Simulates classic Cold War-era strategy games through an authentic terminal-style interface.

Reverse Obfuscator

Analyzes and reconstructs symbolic representations into clear descriptions. Decodes emojis, abstract symbols, and creative notations with acute contextual sensitivity.

Andrew's CMPRSSR

Compresses instructions and conceptual content into compact symbolic form using logic notation, emojis, and scientific shorthand, with decompression tools to ensure fidelity.

Dr. Rodney McKay GPT

Razor-tongued astrophysicist-engineer turning chaos into clean, testable plans. Translates advanced physics into decisive actions with brilliance, impatience, and oracle-level ego.

Amnesia

Immersive text adventure helping players recover lost memories and escape a mysterious facility through puzzle-based exploration, narrative interaction, and spatial reasoning.