“To learn is to be alive. To help others learn is one of the great joys in life.”

Becky McCabe

Education

  • Master of Science degree in Instructional Systems Design, Florida State University.

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Communications with a minor in Journalism from Florida State University (FSU) and Florida A & M University.

  • Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Journalism, College of Central Florida.

Experience

  • Instructional design, needs assessment, course and program evaluation

  • Strategic planning

  • Business writing and editing

  • Emergency preparedness plan development

  • Emergency preparedness exercise development and facilitation

  • Interactive game development

  • Storyboarding and script writing for e-learning and educational videos

  • Narration

  • Classroom instruction: leadership, customer service, time management, emergency preparedness and public health, Myers-Briggs, writing and editing, and many others

  • Editing and publishing: managed e-commerce website for Red Dog Music Books, and edited all marketing copy. Edited Pearl Harbor and the American Experience.

  • Webinars: ICS in a Nutshell for Medical Reserve Corps volunteers

  • Incident Command System: ICS 300 and 400 instructor-led certified

Associations

The International Society for Performance Improvement

Amateur Radio Relay League: National Association for Amateur Radio

Personal

Born and raised in central Florida, I knew from an early age that I would attend Florida State University. After all, my mother taught me the FSU fight song when I was two. I wanted to become a doctor until I discovered that I faint at the sight of blood. So, I shifted my passion for photography into a new career goal: television. I loved learning how to shoot, edit, and narrate video

My dream of working in television production eventually came true with production assistant gigs on a few MTV Spring Break broadcasts. I spent a summer internship developing training videos for a large hospital. After graduation, I operated the Chyron (graphics) for the live Florida Lottery broadcasts.

But FSU’s lure wasn’t finished with me yet. As a new manager of the Learning Resource Center in the College of Education, I became fascinated with the projects students were working on in computer-based training. I discovered that FSU’s world-renowned Instructional Systems Design (ISD) program, and many of its pioneers, were based in the building where I worked.

Convinced this had to be fate, I was hooked - and graduated from that program two years later. A career of great adventures in training and course development has followed: for state government, public health, and currently National Parks.

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I’ve been lucky to call the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia home for the past nineteen years. Most of my free time is spent outdoors, usually in a tent, kayak, or on a hiking trail somewhere in the mountains.