Patricia Foster

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Patricia Foster’s Summary

Influenced by an educational background in the social sciences, web development and multimedia, has developed a communications-rich career path that integrates user experience intelligence, teaching and learning, and community building as a means of creating a qualitative experience for specific university student and staff communities.

As a front-end web developer, have created web pages, written and managed online content for both library and university student website pages. Expertise in website usability has been used in a series of work projects which include an open source repository, library e-reserve and LibQual (QA Survey) usability testing.

Patricia Foster’s Specialties:

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) on-line resource management, strategic planning activities, customer support (RefWorks, & library reference desk), qualitative research, blog administration and social software, client-side web development (XHTML, Javascript), web authoring and graphics software (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Captivate), website planning and usability, writing articles and editing, technical writing, structural editing and document design, learning E-portfolios