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Maxx Scholten

08.02 Completed and Remaining Summer Projects

August 2, 2011 By Maxx Scholten

Maddox Lab:

  • Mockup created
  • Drupal theme initiated
  • Began theming and inserting dummy content
  • New banner – in progress
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Poldrack lab:

  • Mockup created
  • Photographs of new lab space taken
  • New banner – in progress
  • WordPress site just created
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  • Lab photographs taken:
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Lecture Capture:

  • Met with Mike to give a tutorial on WordPress, changing text and updating the site’s information
  • Still requires working PHP contact/support form
  • Took photographs with Ashley for new banner for site, he’s leaning towards this:
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  • Here are some other ideas:
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Cafe Russia:

  • Site launched with updates to images and design
  • Still has funny centering issues – most updated version is on the Dev site: http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/cafe-russia
  • Needs to be updated from dev site?

Taiwan Site:

  • Created new “Socialism” forum capable of commenting
  • Meeting with Teresa Lai this week or next week about the logistics of how the forum should operate.

7 Solutions:

  • Finished off with most updated content
  • Went live for big media frenzy

Hebrew Site:

  • Meeting with Professor Raizen earlier this afternoon
  • Fixed some Hebrew issues, changed layouts/formatting
  • Site ready for launch?

PinYin Mobile Site:

  • Minimal development / progress, continues to be pushed back with newer projects

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06.21 New Project List

June 24, 2011 By Maxx Scholten

Project: 7 Solutions

  • Coded and structured
  • / format banner design
  • lightbox effect for images/graphs
  • Include footer information
  • UT word mark bar
  • Add Dean image to conclusion

Project: Chinese PinYin Mobile Site

  • Photoshop designs applying a metal letter-press style for
  • Home page start screen, including logo featured prominently and the book 1, book 2 options
  • lesson menu screen
  • flash card list choice screen
  • 7 flash card configuration screens
  • vector logo: tiger w/dragon, yin-yang configuration, iphone app style
  • tiny version logo incorporated into the menu bar

Maddox Lab

  • Design similar and simple like imageLab
  • Development with Drupal
  • Create admin interface to create books – organization of wiki information
  • Based on 960.gs / zen them

Meeting with Rajka

  • Fix footer / add ‘about/info’ for SoundLab
  • Walkthrough of WordPress
  • Make a few posts to get the hang of the system

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05.23 List of ongoing projects

June 7, 2011 By Maxx Scholten

Hebrew:

  • Make smaller graphics files
  • Fix lightbox with Jquery to modify CSS
  • Include “Independent Tutorials” + “Biblical Hebrew Tutorials” to Tutorials page
  • Create expanding menu for “Biblical Hebrew Texts” under Biblical Hebrew
  • Integrate “Biblical Hebrew for Beginners” into expanding menu?
  • Change permissions to allow guests to see content
  • Complete the implementation of the yours truly page
  • Add Hebrew where appropriate

Lecture Capture:

  • Request remaining content from Mike
  • Schedule photoshoot with STAs this week
  • PHP request form / ask Ran about WordPress plugins

Putin Illustration:

  • This week: add ears, re-structure face based on new illustrations in STA folder.

LMS Project:

  • Remaining – evaluate Blackboard and Moodle

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Lecture Capture, Hebrew

May 18, 2011 By Maxx Scholten

Coded up the new LectureCapture information site in WordPress

  • PHP custom form for site contact / research

Changed Hebrew site video clips feed to display in grid with lightbox

  • Began styling lightbox / researching
  • Still need to re-do many remaining graphics

New STA training with Ming and Dustin

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Meetings / Hebrew

April 27, 2011 By Maxx Scholten

Meeting with Ran and Mike over classroom web-lecture info site

Meeting with Suloni over additional Putin changes

Hebrew Site

  • Content type / tax creation
  • Media integration
  • Creating a ton of content

*Need to start work on coding/designing Mike’s site, set up photo session next week.

*Finish Hebrew Audio Clips – Begin Video Clips / finalize style of site including typography and COLA banner

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Economic Banners, Publications Project, Hebrew media

April 20, 2011 By Maxx Scholten

Converted most of Hebrew collection of video clips from .MOV to MP4, organized and uploaded to streaming media server with Ming.

Had several ongoing meetings with Ming about re-creating the sound bites pages with views and panels, will be using lightbox effect for video and audio clips on “sound bites” page.

Completed Economics Banner #5, The Economics of Beauty – emailed and accepted by Liz.

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Worked ~4 hours on Kate’s publication project.

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