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Bridget

4-18-19

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Vlabs

I’ve been making some interactives in Canvasser, and they were ones that I made the assets for, so I’ve got to see them from start to finish. The ones I’ve done so far are not that complicated (yay) because they don’t have a lot of popups, but they do have a a lot of information that has to be organized in a visually appealing way (or I try). I’m getting the hang of Canvasser pretty quickly. Every asset gets added as an object and positioned in the output box, then every clickable object is set as an interactive. The begin button is an interactive that’s only visible at the same time as the begin screen, then they both disappear. Then, for every clickable object, there’s a corresponding popup that becomes visible after you click it.

4-15-19

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History Poster

Vlabs

Been doing more vlabs, making the assets, and then I’m going to start making some in Canvasser using assets that have already been created. Here are a few labs that I finished:

 

3-25-19

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Vlabs Interactives

Last week I got trained to make assets for the vlabs interactives, which is going to be a pretty big project lasting into the summer. We’re creating everything in Photoshop, and every popup and clickable item (word, arrow, shape, etc) needs to be saved on its own layer so that when it gets put into Canvasser each element can be isolated.

This is the background for a lab 2 section 1 interactive (each lab has its own color, and lab 2 is red):

 

 

And this is the beginning screen, which is greyed out until you click the “Begin Interactive” button (which will be added later in Canvasser):

 

 

Other than that, I’ve been doing photo IDs and updating a few of the Cascade/Web Editor how-to pages.

2-25-19

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Computer Support for COLA Web Editor

I’m continuing to help update information about how to use the new COLA web editor, which has a very different interface from the old database. We need instructions targeted at university staff and faculty for the main UT computer support pages and instructions targeted at LAITS-only staff who have admin permissions in the web editor. The latter instructions will go into a WordPress site for STAs to use in the future that will be a guide/compendium.

Littlefield Lecture Posters

I’ve also been working on some poster designs for a lecture sponsored by the Department of History. To expedite the process Suloni gave me a .psd used for last year’s lecture to use as a template (featuring an author + book), and I just exchanged the images and changed the text and colors. I’m also going to work on some original designs today, which I will post here soon.