Content and Materials Development
Key Skills
I prefer organized, concise, plain language. I have skills in storyboarding, genre analysis, substantive and copy editing, and proofreading. I have a strong grasp of useage and grammar. From composition to final production and publication, I am a detail-oriented multi-tasker.
Educational and Training Materials
I have researched, written, edited and produced:
- Learning objects
- Curriculum guides sample
- Instructor guides
- Student guides
- Job aids
- Learner aids such as graphic organizers, worksheets, learner rubrics sample
- Case studies, simulations, role plays, games
- Conversation scripts
- Assessment tools: formative and summative
- Evaluation tools
- Proposals
- Reports
New Media
- Learning objects: demonstrations; self-accessed modules
- Website management and content creation sample
- Digital storytelling
Professional Publications and Conference Presentations
"Using Rubrics as an Assessment Tool in Situated Paramedic Education" , Presented at Practice Makes Perfect, BC Academic Health Council, Vancouver, BC, November 5, 2007.
Johnston, B. (2006) “The Wheels Start Turning”: An Investigation into One Writer’s Composing Moment. Update, 48 (1), 28-30.
Johnston, B. (2002) The good, the bad and the deadly passive. Learning English, August 29-September4, 3.
Johnston, B. (2001) Speaking the same language levels. Learning English. April 19-25, 5.
Selected Creative Non-Fiction
Johnston, B. (2004). Number 5 Road. Geist 51, 20-21.
Johnston, B. (2004). Telling Toll Tales. Western Living Magazine April 2004, 86.
Johnston, B. (2004). Comfortable Legacy for a rambling raccoon, Guardian Weekly, Thursday April 22 2004.
Johnston, B. (2001). Running wild in a field of his own Guardian Weekly, Thursday April 12 2001.
Johnston, B. (2000). Salmon and fishermen struggle to make a comeback. Guardian Weekly, Sept. 14-20, 2000, 26.
Public Relations
I have written
- course descriptions
- course brochures
- press releases with successful media placement
- content for websites
Practicing the Craft
- Ongoing editing workshops with the Editor's Association of Canada, most recently, Editing for the Web
- Ongoing writing workshops. Past workshops and courses include: UBC's CRWR 403 Advanced Fiction with Linda Svendsen, BC Festival of the Arts Fiction Workshop with Marilyn Bowering, UBC's English 303 Technical Writing.