I got started on creating the materials for the online course PSY 352, going live in the Spring. Below are what I had so far.
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Project: PSY 352: Abnormal Psychology Online Course Materials
Client: Dr. Christopher Beevers, COLA Department of Psychology
Completion status: started October 29th, 2019
STA team members: Olivia Wilczek, Abriella Corker, Jalisa Broussard, Kevin Dao, Jaclyn Alford
Description / plans: create materials for the PSY 352 online course (going live in Spring 2020). Project include reformatting PPT slides, designing studio backdrop, desk skirt, intro video, etc.
Yesterday I started on the first draft of the PPT template for the course. Once this is approved and modified as needed, I will assign these out to the STAs team members to help me reformat all of Dr. Beevers’ slides. I myself am also working on a few slides set, just so that I know what issues can be encountered on the way.
As a side note, I’m a PPT nerd, so I’m super excited to work on this project 😉
I also created a spreadsheet for housekeeping purposes.
And finally, some organization stuff to get everyone ready to create the PPTs.
Project: VLab PNG / PSD
Client: Physical Anthropology online course
Completion status: started October 3rd, 2019
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran
STA team members: Maddy Kaniewski, Olivia Wilczek, Abriella Corker
Description / plans: make graphical / interactive to Physical Anthropology VLabs content
To be completed: by the end of November
Last week I worked a bit on creating graphs and interactive content for VLab. Here’s what I got.
Project: French and Latin Web Banners
Client: Mike Heidenreich
Completion status: started October 16th, 2019
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran
STA team member: Rodrigo Villareal
Description / plans: creating website banners for the online courses for French and Latin
To be completed: ASAP
Using these courses’ previous post cards, I’ve created the web banners for their websites.
Suloni, Valerie and I discussed extensively in choosing the images for the French banner. We wanted something that ‘speaks French’ (quoting Suloni), but it’s quite difficult to find a landscape orientation picture of the Eiffel tower. In the end we settled with the above.
For the Latin banner specifically, I really love all the characters illustrated by a past STA, Aidan Kessler (who is now a PM). All of the assets used in the Latin banner, which are not only beautiful but also very well layered (making it easy to parse them out and reuse them), are his.
Project: German Trifold Edit
Client: German Program
Completion status: completed October 17th, 2019
STA guidance: Jaclyn Alford
Description / plans: edit the current German Trifold
Last week I was assigned the task of editing the German Trifold. The trifold turned out looking like below.
This is the first time I’ve ever used InDesign, so it took me a while to get used to the ‘image placing’ functionality. I also had some difficulty choosing an image that fits the front, yet must not be blurry. But overall it was a fun project. Jaclyn helped me a ton on both InDesign and Photoshop (thank you Jaclyn 🙂 ), and I can’t wait to continue working on upcoming design projects with her.
Project: VLab Last Looks
Client: Physical Anthropology online course
Completion status: started October 3rd, 2019
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran
STA team members: Maddy Kaniewski, Olivia Wilczek, Abriella Corker
Description / plans: make final edits to Physical Anthropology VLab content
To be completed: by the end of November
I’ve been working on VLab, in which we migrate the content of the Physical Anthropology online course from Adobe Flash file to a website using Grav, a (not-my-favorite :p) CMS.
Some things I’ve been fixing including minor grammatical errors, spacing, indenting, or inserting missing content. I’ve also been working on combining the terminologies onto 1 card instead of spanning them into multiple cards.
One major thing (and probably one of the more exciting parts of the project) is to recreate the graphs in Photoshop. Here’s a snapshot of what I’ve been working on (still in-progress).
