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Kelsey I 08-09

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July 22nd – 29th

fixed Japanese JOSHU site
started making typo corrections to SPT

April 22nd – 29th

worked on presentation
moved Passe Partout live
finished footnote generator
added popup script & markup to all Phonology sites

April 7 – 15th

finished Passe Partout!!!!
table tutorial with Scott Meyers
worked on automatic generation of footnotes

March 5 – 11th

Wednesday
Passe Partout:

began marking up vocab on all pages

Monday
Passe Partout:

decided I didn’t like the right aligned menus
left aligned them and spaced them to avoid overlap with videos

Sunday
Passe Partout:

right aligned & shrunk menus

Friday
British Studies:

recorded lecture with Matt. no scotch for us 🙁

February 26th – March 4

Monday
Phonology:

changed CSS to indicate popups, took screenshots and emailed to Mike & Scott for approval

sample popup

footer with javascript enabled

footer with javascript disabled

Saturday
Phonology:

finalized design of popups

Friday
British Studies:

set up and recorded a lecture (almost) all by meself!

February 19th – 25th

Wednesday
Persian Online:

corrected transcriptions

Monday
Persian Online:

built out table
met with Emily

Sunday
Phonology:

fiddled with design of popups

Wednesday
British Studies:

Audio training with Mike & Matt

February 12th – 18th

Monday & Tuesday
Phonology:

Worked on making popups work with Javascript disabled (view page w/ javascript disabled to see)

Sunday
Phonology:

Started working on popups http://www.laits.utexas.edu/sta/kelsey/phonology/kinyarwanda/kin_palatalization.html

Friday

bumbled through a British Studies lecture

February 5th – 11th

Wednesday

trained with Mike for British Studies Lecture Series

Monday
Passe Partout:

changed background to gradient
banged my head against the monitor re: quicktime movies and css layering
started trying to validate pages

Sunday
Passe Partout:

worked on implementing new layout
rearranged navigation bar to fit
redesigned content divs to make more sense
added vertical line separating video & questions

January 28th – February 4th

Wednesday
Phonology:

Met with Mike and Scott
wants to delete Introduction tabs and move content to main pages
going to send me sample content for Palatization page
I am going to mock up pop-ups. Goal is to make a template Scott himself can edit and add to pages
needs to be able to add/edit tables. i am going to do a short table tutorial/doc for him

Tuesday
Passe Partout:

added answers to self-check 7 & 9

Monday
Passe Partout:

added answers to self-check 5 & 6

Phonology:

met briefly with Mike

Persian Online:

met with Emily
table in Persian Online needs a column added
need to change names of pages to match actual romanization

Sunday
Passe Partout:

figured out regex to add answers to pages without them
added answers to self-check 1-4

December 1st – December 7th

Tuesday
Passe Partout:

met with Suloni about design
made requested corrections on existing page
added additional vocab to video 14

November 17th – November 23rd

Saturday
Passe Partout:

put up additional vocab for videos 1-8

Tuesday
Passe Partout:

finished posting lessons
met with Cheney Crow

November 10th – November 16th

Sunday
Passe Partout:

put up 3/4 of Passe Partout content

Friday
Passe Partout:

updated graphics on Avis des Artists

Tuesday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

got an IE version of menu working!

Passe Partout:

copied Passe Partout files to server

November 3rd – November 9th

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
GOOD LORD SO MUCH IE

October 27th – November 2nd

Wednesday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

Posted new video

Al-Kitaab Textbook:

moved CSS menus off live site (stupid IE)
scooted back and forth between Mac and PC a lot trying to fix hover (stupid IE)

Tuesday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

talked to Ran about CSS menus
added links to files for Book 1 Lessons 13-16 and Book 2 Lesson 5
created pages for Book 2 Lessons 6-10
moved CSS menus onto live site

October 20th – 26th

Sunday
Passe Partout:

got all pages converted, yay!

Wednesday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

emailed Ran about menu timeout

Tuesday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

added setTimeout delay to reset sticky menus

September 22nd – 29th

Friday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

finetuned CSS more to make it look like current menu
made menus mouse-activated
unsuccessfully attempted drop-shadow text in CSS

Arabic Teaching Resources:

added new subpage of movies
added new movie in Critique of Language & Culture section

Thursday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

worked on modifying CSS to mimic current menu
current live menu my css menu 9/25

Wednesday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

replaced picture menu nav items with text

converted javascript menu to nested

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Tuesday
Al-Kitaab Textbook:

put part 2 files on live server
created link-based navigation to part 2 files
researched CSS-based menus

September 15th – 21st

Monday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

created new page for Critiques of Language & Culture
updated all sidebar links
modified CSS to align sidebar link properly
reordered Alif Baa videos
put some audio links into 2 column format

Tuesday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

fixed Lughatuna video link

Al Kitaab Textbook:

puzzled over the menu some more, called in Ran, gave up in despair

Passe Partout:

poked around Lindsay’s code
began entering first quiz from Avis des Artistes

Sunday
Passe Partout:

added 4 parts to navigation bar
moved navigation to separate file
listened to voodoo by d’angelo three times in a row. damn what an album
wrote regex to speed up converting quizzes. wheeeeeee!!!!!
got all pages in part 1 converted to new layout

September 8th – 14th

Tuesday
worked on STA banner

Thursday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

created links to Alif Baa videos
renamed video titles
changed sidebar on all pages to add new link
moved pages to live server

Sunday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

updated sidebar on subpages

Al Kitaab Textbook:

tried to figure out menu

September 1st – 7th

Friday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

created links to Book 2 video
revised links to Book 1 video
changed CSS to put Book 1 video links into 2 columns

August 25th-31st

Thursday
Arabic Teaching Resources:

finished creating audio pages & links
created links to Book 1 video

Al Kitaab Textbook:

tried to fix Part 2 menu