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Rock Island, Illinois · Quad Cities

Middle of
the Map.

Quirky is in the middle.

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Sarah Tillberg, Middle of the Map

About

A person.
A place.
A story.

I'm Sarah, an instructional designer, photographer, and lifelong Quad Cities resident. People around here will tell you the best stories have already been told. I disagree - the Quad Cities, we've got character.

If you've spent any time here, you've watched an amazing and resilient community slowly decay as the factories go quiet. The neighborhoods held on anyway, and we always seem to have each other's back.

Middle of the Map is where I put all of it: the photography, the stories, the tools I'm building, and the ongoing project of figuring out what comes next. You're welcome to follow along.

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Photography

The Quad Cities
through my eyes.

Quirky and a little off - decaying in the wake of too many layoffs — but we've stuck together. The Quad Cities is still a beautiful place, not because of what it offers but because of who lives here and what they make of it.

Centennial Bridge, Rock Island
Iowa Road, Quad Cities
Sylvan Island, Moline
I-74 Bridge at Dusk
Prospect Park, Moline
The Monocoupe, Quad Cities Airport
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Podcast

Suburban Green.

Short, drive-time conversations about nature, land, community, and the green things quietly growing in the middle of the heartland. Five to seven minutes. No filler.

Recent episode: restoring Nahant Marsh in Davenport with the people who actually do the work.

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Latest Episode

Restoring Nahant Marsh

"Natural land restoration in the marsh and prairie with Kinsey Nielsen, Natural Resource Manager at Nahant Marsh in Davenport, Iowa."

Aug 12, 2024

17 min · Suburban Green

Work With Me

A career spent making
complex things clear.

I'm an instructional designer, LMS administrator, and learning experience builder with roots in compliance training, eLearning development, and UX. I work with organizations that need the whole thing done: strategy, design, and build. No team required - just someone who knows what she's doing.

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Instructional Design

End-to-end course development — SME interviews, storyboards, eLearning builds, and QA. ADDIE, SAM, whatever the project needs.

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LMS Administration

Setup, configuration, enrollment management, compliance tracking, and ongoing maintenance. Storyline, Rise, and custom HTML builds.

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Learning Experience Design

Scenario-based, branching, interactive learning experiences built for the web, no LMS required. Real learning that lives anywhere.

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What's Inside the Life Care and Continuity Binder

Life Story Binder

What happens to the people
who depend on you — if something
happens to you?

He was born at 25 weeks. He spent almost a year in the NICU. And when we became his full-time guardians nineteen years later, we realized nobody had built the thing we needed most.

The Life Care & Continuity Binder is a practical system for organizing everything a backup caregiver would need — medications, guardianship documents, daily routines, provider contacts, legal and financial information, and more. Nine sections. One binder. Peace of mind you can hold in your hands.

  • Guardianship documents & legal contacts
  • Medication lists & provider directories
  • Daily routines & personal care preferences
  • SSI, Medicaid & benefits paperwork
  • Emergency contacts & key designees
  • Future care wishes & planning
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Contact

Find me in the middle.

Whether you want to talk about a project, share a story about this place, or just say hello — I'm here, right in the middle of everything.

MiddleoftheMapQC@proton.me
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