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Second Week of School

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Photo ID Editing

I worked on some photo IDs

for the COLA website:

Title Slide Modifications

I added/edited more title slides for the Diversity and Inclusion Seminar project:

CLIO Basic Training

This week I started creating learning modules for Canvas using CLIO. The topic I chose to teach is Energy Efficient Design in Buildings, and this is how it’s looking so far:

CLIO Training

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This week I finished work on InDesign Training. It looks pretty nice!

Besides Photo IDs, I finally began CLIO Training. My theme is centered around bread with a focus on making Taro bread. The color scheme revolves around purples and creams. It’s coming together nicely so far!

 

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This week I worked mostly on photo IDs, color correction training, and wrapped up my Clio training. I’m fairly happy with how my module turned out — it’s basically a survival course on basic German for tourists (because in my humble opinion as an Anglophone traveler it’s quite easy to become complacent and not make an effort to respect different cultures and at least try to use their language, but I digress).

Here’s a couple IDs I did as well.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/09/04/34444-2/

STA Blog Self Portrait

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STA Blog Self Portrait

For this activity I was tasked with creating a head to toe avatar of myself using whatever design tools I want, so I decided to use Adobe Illustrator. My understanding is that this image will be used to represent me in the We Are STAs banner for Fall 2020 | Spring 2021, along with the avatars of all of my current STA peers. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product soon. For now, I only know what my personal avatar looks like, which is as follows:

Basic Training: Cascade Site Pt. 2

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Basic Training: Cascade Site Pt. 2

For Part Two of the Cascade training I basically worked on two new pages. Both of these pages were exercises designed for me to learn the basics of coding that every STA must know when working with Cascade.

 

The “Table Edits Page” was an exercise that taught me the proper coding for making three different types of tables. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-12/penguins.php

 

      1. The first table was about learning how to insert the table, how to add text and how to link the text to external links.
      2. The second table was about learning how to add text and embedded videos to a table.
      3. The third table was about learning how to add images and how to link those images to different external links.

 

The “My Accordion” page was an exercise that taught me the proper coding for drop-down text. This is useful for FAQ style pages, which is actually what I was tasked to do. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-12/my-accordion.php

Troubleshooting Tip:

You may run into an issue where you receive an error code after pasting code into the Cascade editor. If this happens, just close out the editor and log out of Cascade before trying again.

Basic Training: Cascade Site Pt. 1 [Updated]

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Basic Training: Cascade Site Pt. 1 [Updated]

After continuing with Part One of the Cascade basic training, my site has been through quite some changes, compared to the picture in the previous post. For instance, I designed a new banner in order to declare the theme of my site. For said theme I settled on penguins.

Apart from changing my banner, I added a plethora of other things.

I added events and news:

I added a welcoming message and right-side bar:

And finally I added a bunch of things on the left-side tabs like staff and contact information.

This is all visible on my site: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-12/