Diana Sousa

About

Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Porto in the Digital Media Doctoral Program, a joint program between the University of Porto and The New University of Lisbon -, with a current average mark of 17 out of 20, in the Technology specialty by the University of Porto (2020). She’s doing her research about Immersive Educational Escape Rooms as a researcher at INESC TEC’s Center for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE). Currently, she is also an IT trainer, at Associação Nacional de Professores, as an accredited trainer in B115 – Technology and Educational Communication, teaching “Presentation and creation of digital educational games: LearningApps and Wordwall”, “Presentation and digital content creation with the CANVA application: posters, presentations, e-books and catalogs”, and “Creating spoken presentations and video with the Canva application”. In the last two years, she worked at Multicompetências as Director of the Programming and Multimedia Department as Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Digital Marketing, and Head of Learning and Development. As Head of Learning and Development, she has improved the online courses, namely courses in moodle with the migration of data from forinsia (an online training software to training schools). In February 2021 she has finished her Training Manager course at Cognos Formação e Desenvolvimento Pessoal. Recently, she has done some certifications in: Education (at FEUP and other certified training schools, Porto), in Learning from Users (Fraunhofer, Porto), and MOCs certification as Web Developer (Rumos, Porto). She has finished her Master in Multimedia – Technologies with the final classification of 15 out of 20 by the University of Porto (2013). Her professional activity began as a receptionist (2002-2007) at the Serralves Foundation (Porto), where she did a stage at the Museum Direction (2006). Later, she started her activity as a teacher and trainer, teaching “IT Communication” and “Computer Applications” (2008-2012; 2018). In September 2016, she finished her main professional internship at Primavera BSS, where she has done some projects in Multimedia, Web, and Mobile Development for Primavera Academy (Braga). Then she also developed some Web projects as self-employed and for FTP – Comércio e Equipamento Informático, LDA.

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