11th Annual RPI Colloquium on Teaching and Learning


Phylise Banner Creative Instructional Strategist Adobe Education Leader IM: phylisebanner Skype: phylisebanner Twitter: phylisebanner Phone: 518.265.5049 pbanner@gmail.com Facebook Webpage Personal Webpage Phylise Banner is an information designer currently working as an Instructional Design Project Leader for the American Public University System. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with faculty, staff, students and IT managers to design, develop and deliver technology-based solutions across departments and disciplines. She regularly embraces opportunities to experiment with emerging technologies in order to best serve adult students at a distance, and to create communities of lifelong learners. Along with her current achievements in adult learning and distance education, she has over 18 years of experience in information visualization with special expertise in the visual representation of financial and economic data. Her career as an informational graphics specialist with the Federal Reserve in the 1980s allowed for early access to Internet technologies, sparking her interest in hypertext and the integration of technology into teaching and learning. She presents regularly at regional and national technology and communication conferences on the topics of information design, experience design, creative hypertext, Web 2.0 applications, instructional design, information visualization and GIS technologies. She also teaches Digital Storytelling and Information Design online for Empire State College and SUNYIT. Her current research focuses on the use of Web 2.0 applications to establish community and visual presence in the online classroom. She is an avid angler, aviation enthusiast, and am currently training to be a private pilot. And, by the way, is the owner of a 1967 Amphicar.

Phylise Banner

Creative Instructional Strategist
Adobe Education Leader

IM: phylisebanner
Skype: phylisebanner
Twitter: phylisebanner
Phone: 518.265.5049

Phylise Banner is an information designer currently working as an Instructional Design Project Leader for the American Public University System.

Throughout her career, she has worked closely with faculty, staff, students and IT managers to design, develop and deliver technology-based solutions across departments and disciplines. She regularly embraces opportunities to experiment with emerging technologies in order to best serve adult students at a distance, and to create communities of lifelong learners.

Along with her current achievements in adult learning and distance education, she has over 18 years of experience in information visualization with special expertise in the visual representation of financial and economic data. Her career as an informational graphics specialist with the Federal Reserve in the 1980s allowed for early access to Internet technologies, sparking her interest in hypertext and the integration of technology into teaching and learning.

She presents regularly at regional and national technology and communication conferences on the topics of information design, experience design, creative hypertext, Web 2.0 applications, instructional design, information visualization and GIS technologies. She also teaches Digital Storytelling and Information Design online for Empire State College and SUNYIT.

Her current research focuses on the use of Web 2.0 applications to establish community and visual presence in the online classroom.

She is an avid angler, aviation enthusiast, and am currently training to be a private pilot. And, by the way, is the owner of a 1967 Amphicar.