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cola posters – melanie morgan

  • create posters featuring cola faculty
  • almost complete, have one more poster to make

    caas newsletter layout – sona shah

  • re-designing layout for caas newsletter
  • created the general look & feel
  • waiting on sona to give me the content
  • 50% complete

    lah re-design – stacey amorous

  • designing the new look of the lah website
  • haven’t started yet, will start soon

    african conference mock-up

  • created a dada-inspired banner for african conference website
  • 75% done, need to add imagery of coke bottle

    • 6.12.2012

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    Summer Update:

    project: New STA Training

    date: June 13th

    lead: Suloni

    -Take new STA portraits on June 13th.

    -Train new STAs on ID processing and illustration this week

    -Train new STAs on slide scanning, negative scanning, COLA ID editing next week

    -Assign Geology client project & Doolittle slide scanning project

    status: New

    project: Humanities Newsletter

    date: June & July

    lead: Suloni

    -Meeting with Pauline Strong Wednesday to discuss newsletter timeline, elements, and direction

    status: New

    project: ETAG Banner and Website Re-Design

    date: June & July

    lead: Suloni

    -Created 3 directions for banner designs, with variations of each

    -Met with Elizabeth to discuss these, she then met with her co-worker to make some decisions on which stockphotos to purchase

    -Met again with Elizabeth to discuss continuation of one banner idea, as well as a new one from her and Chandra

    -Mockups to be completed and emailed for selection this week

    -Once banner is nailed down, web design will follow

    status: In progress

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    project: NAIS website layout and Cascade implementation

    date: June & July

    lead: Suloni

    -Created a few rough mockups with the new logo implemented to initiate discussion around site elements to be changed

    -Met with Karina regarding Cascade implementation

    -Meeting with Megan today to discuss direction for planned mockup

    status: In progress

    project: Ipad Initiative Cascade Maintenance

    date: May & June

    lead: Emily Cicchini

    pt. 1

    -linked pages for IPad Initiative website

    -took photographs for website

    -created banners for website

    -email notification (error onsite, informed Emily)

    -all above completed

    pt. 2

    -new page with hyperlinking to be done as well as email notifications assigned today (June 12th)

    status: pt. 1 completed, part 2 in progress

    project: COLA IDs

    date: May & June

    lead: Suloni

    status: May completed, June IDs saved and in progress

    examples:

    June 8: What’s New

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    Persian for America(ns)

    about the project

    Created by Dr. Michael Hillmann, Persian for America(ns) will be an online collection of resources for learning Persian.

    status

    I’m currently in the process of finishing the design (below). After showing the design to Dr. Hillman, I’ll begin coding the site.

    Nick's design for Persian for Americans

    I’m using Google’s document viewer (pdf) and audio player (mp3) to present the PFA lesson material within the browser. Students will also be able to download the content for offline consumption.

    Psychology News Migration

    Preparing for the Psychology departments migration to Cascade, Kathy and I have been loading their legacy news and events into the COLA database.

    As of now, all legacy news stories have been added to the COLA database.

    TGDP updates for Dr. Hans Boas

    I made a handful of updates to Texas German Dialect Project site.

    June 8

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    PROJECT: PERSIAN TEACHING RESOURCES SITE UPDATES AND REDESIGN
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI, RAN, ANOUSHA
    INFO: Changed a few things on the front page. Added images with pdf markers to indicated new chapters. Added contact information in Persian, and a new title banner. Also working on redesign for the website.

    COMPLETE

    PROJECT: BRAZILPOD REDESIGN
    DESIGN LEAD: NATHALIE CHILDRES
    INFO: Working on creating mockups for the new website and also a logo design for Brazilpod.

    PROJECT: GER 398P WEBSITE
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI
    INFO: Met with Dr. Urlaub and talked about specifics. I’ve finished the flat coding, but I still need to finish putting the template up.

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    PROJECT: LLILAS NEWSLETTER
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI
    INFO: Created a Mail Chimp template for LILLAS.

    COMPLETE

    PROJECT: CASCADE TRAINING WITH EMMA
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI
    INFO: Explained the process of uploading an edited Cascade template and CSS to Emma. I still need to write up the procedure for the Knowledge Base.

    COMPLETE

    PROJECT: BLACK STUDIES BANNER
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI, NIA
    INFO: Updated the Black Studies Banner to fit new specifications.

    COMPLETE

    PROJECT: CAAS NEWSLETTER TEMPLATE
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI
    INFO: Working with Sona to create another template for CAAS, similar to LLILAS.

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    PROJECT: FRIT: ROMANCE STUDIES AND ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
    DESIGN LEAD: SULONI
    INFO: Make both pages more impactful and visually please drawing potential applicants in. Also creating an application form and informational flyer.

    June 8th

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    completed…

    date: May 25th
    project: COLA Homepage Weekly Updates
    lead: Andre
    Updating new Video Podcast on theCOLA Homepageeach week.
    status: DONE

    date: May 8
    project: COLA Database Psychology Contacts Update
    lead: Suloni, Andre
    Updating the Psychology Department faculty with new information. Added Adjunct Faculty.
    status: DONE

    date: May 8
    project: COLA Database Psychology News Migration
    lead: Suloni, Andre
    Migrating News content from the old Psychology site to new Psychology cascade site.
    status: DONE as of 5/9

    date: May 30th
    project: Cascade Tutorial
    lead: Suloni
    Cascade tutorial for Dept of Spanish and Portuguese and ETAG. Permissions given.
    status: June 1st

    date: May 31st
    project: General Cascade/DB Updates and Maintenance
    lead: Suloni
    Cascade update on STAs in Art Credits. Changed news dates on COLA Database.
    status: DONE

    cas1

    working on…

    date: June 1
    project: New STA Training
    lead: Suloni
    Create tutorials for the new STAs in illustration and logos. Train on how to use the wiki.
    status: In progress – Making presentations

    date: June 8
    project: Lab Cleanup
    lead: Suloni
    Desktop cleanse, browser set up, and clean in preparation for New STAs/Summer
    status: In progress

    date: June 8
    project: Psychology Site Migration Contacts Update
    lead:Andre, Suloni, Tim
    COLA database contacts and news sections have been migrated (as of 5/9) and now brainstorming ideas on migrating the rest of their website (ie. Events, Spotlight, Faculty profiles). Awaiting further instructions.
    status: In progress

    date: May 30th
    project: Humanities Page Cascade Video Implementation
    lead: Suloni
    Working on adding video to the Humanities home page after edited by Video STAs.
    status: Awaiting Approval

    date: Mar 6, April
    project: Korean Homepage
    lead: Suloni
    Design with Katie a homepage for the new Korean Instructional site.
    status: Final Splash image approved and ready for mock-ups

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    date: May 8
    project: STA Flyers Update
    lead: Suloni
    Updating the 2012 STA Job posting information.
    status: In progress