Teaching. Living. Breathing

Meet Professor Dominique

I grew up in a family of educators. Both of my parents were elementary school teachers, and my journey in teaching began at age seven as my mom’s teaching assistant.
In 2008, I earned a teaching degree in Taiwan, specializing as a fine arts teacher for high school students. However, with everyone in my family being teachers, I chose a different path, pursuing a career as a UX/XR designer and developer. After 15 years in the tech industry, I found myself drawn back to education as a “refreshing hobby”—a way to breathe, live, and inspire young minds and spirits.

In 2015, an inner urge to teach resurfaced. I discovered that the best way to learn is to teach. After participating in a game jam and trying a VR headset, I decided to turn teaching into a hobby on my YouTube channel. I began creating content on design, coding, development, XR, and AI.

My YouTube channel thrived, and I continue to produce content for it. In 2024, I expanded my teaching endeavors. Now, I teach as an adjunct professor at Cañada College and as a K-12 instructor at the Burlingame Community Center.

Here are the courses I’ve taught or am currently teaching:

  • MART 385: Coding for Designers and Artists

  • SparkAR High School Summer Bootcamp

  • K-12 WebXR Development

I guide students in using AI to spark creativity, fostering their entrepreneurial spirit and empowering them to become their bosses.

My goal is to create a dynamic, collaborative environment that fosters critical thinking, professional networking, and career-ready skills. By integrating storytelling, mentorship, hands-on projects, AI tools, and real-world feedback, I aim to inspire students to “build beyond” the course and become lifelong learners.

MART 385 - Coding for Designers & Artists

🎮✨ Code Your Own Adventure in 18 Weeks! Dive into a constructivist playground where you’ll master Unity, C#, and AI tools while crafting games, apps, and epic stories—no boring lectures, just pajama-friendly pre-recorded power-ups, collaborative mentorship, and hands-on “boss battles” to build portfolio-worthy projects! 🚀 Whether you’re a coding newbie, game dev dreamer, or career-changer craving a supercharged skillset, this hybrid course fuels “Build Beyond” creativity, lifelong learner vibes, and real-world wizardry to slay resumes and TikTok feeds. Join, conquer, and emerge with a certificate, a tech squad, and the power to turn “what if?” into “I built that!” 💥 Game on!

SPARK AR BOOTCAMP

🚀✨ Spark Your AR Future in Just 2 Weeks! Join Cañada College & Jobs for the Future’s electrifying Spark AR Design Summer Program to master augmented reality magic—craft Hollywood-tier animations, viral social filters, and immersive UX worlds! 🌟 Perfect for busy innovators, this evening hybrid adventure blends hands-on projects, a vibrant AR wizard community, and a shiny resume-boosting certificate 🎓, topped with epic raffle prizes! 🎁 Whether you’re career-pivoting, skill-building, or just AR-curious, unleash creativity that could go viral or launch your tech/marketing/design dreams.