Where to catch me next
Conferences, live sessions, and my six-week guided course. The thread tying them together: helping instructional designers, trainers, and L&D folks use AI to build real, interactive learning without needing to learn to code.
Build Deadline Run with Claude Code
Deadline Run is a short 2D office game. Open your own starter project, change it with Claude Code, test it, and publish your version. No coding experience is required. To build along, bring your own Claude access. It is not included. You can also watch first.
See the workshop and register freeGame Lab Academy
Build your own playable learning game with Claude, and develop a case study that explains it. Guided lessons and a weekly appointment help you through every step of the build.
See the courseHow You Can Turn Vibe-Coded Games Into Reusable Web Objects for Storyline
A working method for taking the games you've vibe-coded and turning them into clean, reusable Portable Web Objects you can drop into any Storyline course, again and again, without rebuilding from scratch each time.
DevLearn siteVibe Coding Portable Web Objects: Create Reusable Games for Storyline and Rise
A 60-minute breakout on building Portable Web Objects: interactive, reusable games and activities you can drop straight into Storyline or Rise. Part of Training magazine's 50th anniversary conference, and attendees leave with techniques they can put to work the same week.
Training 2027 sitePast events
Vibe Coding for L&D: Your First Build with Claude Code
What exactly is vibe coding, and what can L&D actually build with it? This session introduced vibe coding, looked at practical ways it supports learning work, and compared some of the tools. I shared examples from my own projects, then walked everyone through their first hands-on build in Claude Code. No previous coding experience was required, and registrants got a short prework video covering the install.
Intro to Claude Code: Build a Playable Learning Game
In one hour, a room with no coding background opened a real project, understood it with Claude Code, changed it on purpose and published it. The build was Deadline Run: a 60-second 2D office platformer with a phishing-awareness scenario built into it. The full recording, the starter project and every prompt used are free below.
Vibe Coding Portable Web Objects
A hands-on workshop on building Portable Web Objects: interactive, reusable games and activities you can drop straight into Storyline or Rise. Attendees left having built one.
Vibe Coding Portable Web Objects
A hands-on session on two builds and a done-for-you path for dropping a vibe-coded game into Storyline and Rise. Slides, prompts, and starter files are all still available.
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Bring Rachel to your event
I speak and run workshops on using AI to build real, interactive learning, not just faster slides. If one of these fits what you're putting together, let's talk.
Building real L&D products with AI
How to go from a training need to a working tool people actually use, using AI as a builder, not just a writer.
Gamification with coding agents
How coding agents let instructional designers build games and interactive experiences directly, no dev team required.
Beyond the chatbot
What instructional designers can build now that AI does more than draft text: reusable objects, not one-off prompts.
What your audience leaves with
- Something they actually built in the room, not just notes from a slide deck.
- A repeatable process for turning a training idea into a working object.
- Confidence to use AI as a building tool, not just a writing tool.