STA Blog

LAITS Student Technology Assistants collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts faculty and administration by re-imagining their instructional and promotional projects with a creative use of video, audio, web and graphic design. STAs learn technical skills on the job with LAITS development studio staff. They build presentations, produce audio/visual works, scan text documents & perform image correction. STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for instructional technology projects used to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

8/31/16

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I have recently started working on adding pictures to “Ovid’s Metamorphoses” by Steven Lundy. The book is complete and needs to be formatted for web use, and of course pretty pictures need to be added! I have been taking account of the approved photos, writing titles and descriptions for them, and placing them within the text. It’s a lot of organizing and copy/pasting sources, but I get to make some creative decisions too!

Introducing German Project

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I’ve been editing files in the intro German site. I have completed about 3 hours of work, and 3 more hours remain until I can complete my part. My work is mainly reformatting the forum files to be uploaded again for the website. The forum is written in both English and German and includes lesson plans and teaching reflections.

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Orientation day

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On 8/30, I attended orientation for new STAs. I couldn’t stay till the end so I continued orientation tasks today.

8/26/16

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To start off my Friday I began with watching part of a Lynda.com tutorial on Logo design. The tutorial covers what makes a logo effective, iconic, and memorable.
https://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-tutorials/Welcome/173877/361058-4.html
Hopefully as an STA this will come in handy if I ever do any design work!
“A great logo needs no explanation”

 

I also met with Michelle who is coordinating the Edx Project, a system of online courses anyone can take. I will be reviewing and preparing one of the courses for activation in September. I will be updating one of the courses on the website and getting it ready for the new semester. While I’m not too sure yet what happens after that, I’m looking forward to getting started!

 

With Patricia’s help, I also learned how to edit button templates today! Here’s an example I made, thankfully it’s just a button and won’t give you a virus….I think.

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