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Abriella Corker

Abriella Corker

Orientation Day

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Today was my first day with the team. We went over the workspaces that I will be using and setting up different profiles. I’m very excited to start my journey here and see how it evolves over time. Everybody is super helpful and there is a very friendly atmosphere in the office.

Here is a powerpoint I worked on over the STA Handbook:

2019-Jul9-AbriellaCorker

STA Orientation

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Dear Abriella!
During the later part of your STA Orientation Tuesday July 9, 2019,
you’ll design and upload your STA Blog banner to the STA blog.

FIRST STEP
Photoshop
Design and make your banner

a. Use the photoshop specs for your blog banner that i placed in your STA volume folder

b. Save your unmerged files back to your STA volume folder

SECOND STEP
WP
Log-in

Publishing Help Documentation/Instructions
Read this WP sites “Publishing Help” before you upload your banner.
STA publishing help:
* the publishing help is out of date, please take a moment and make suggestions for reformatting & re-writing the instructions, on a comment in bascamp
Blog post
Reflect on the day. You blog posts will be a written experience with images, of your time as an STA with LAITS.
Write a bit about your about your-self, & what you did during orientation & upload your banner.

ABOUT IMAGES
Do not merely copy paste images in to your blog. Always upload images into the “Media” section of blog first, and then set the image from the media folder to display on your blog.
Don’t use the thumbnail version of your images.
Use images that are 72 dpi
Screen shots are fine
Images that are 780 pix wide format nicely above or below text blocks

ABOUT CATEGORIES
Check the “2018 Fall – 2019 Spring” Category box for all the blog posts you make this semester and next semester so that all of your work is documented in the correct semesters.

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LASTLY
Comment on Basecamp
Notification comments: etiquette, files, questions, feedback
Let Chloe and Valerie know you’ve completed this task.
Do this by uploading a link from your blog, to a comment on basecamp, and for your basecamp comments in general:
  • *Always address the person(s) you are writing to by their names.
  • *Always use complete sentences.
  • *Always add links or paths to your design file residing in your STA folder
  • *and a courtesy to your collaborators and mentors, add a screen shot to your comment, of the file you are asking for feedback on.
For this activity, use “@” Valerie and “@”Chloe on your bascamp comment, to let them know any questions you may have about the mechanics of using the STA blog, about the mechanics of photoshop, and to let them know that you have completed this task and that you would like a little feedback on on your banner design 🙂

Thank you & have fun!