STA Blog

8-28-19

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Last Day of Work

I won’t be returning in the fall, so today is my last day of work, sadly. I’ve really enjoyed my time here as an STA. I highly recommend the experience to anyone who’s interested in design/technology and looking to grow their skillset as an undergrad. Everyone at LAITS has been kind and patient, and it’s a very comfortable place to learn and ask questions because so many people have different kinds of expertise. I’ve become a lot more confident in my graphic and web design abilities since I started working here, and I’m thankful to Suloni and all the other STAs here for making this job a positive experience.

Training

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TRAINING NEW HIRES

This may be boring to post but I think it is an accomplishment worth talking about. I feel like a new hire training new hires. Suloni trusted me with the responsibility of teaching the photo ID process and Valerie helped to show me how to assign TO-DOs to people. Slowly I will get better and better at explaining and teaching people things. I’m a long way from it but Kevin and Thuy caught on quick and made great edits on their first try!

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: SHAPE MANIPULATION

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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: SHAPE MANIPULATION

Here is one of the AI basic trainings that I was holding off on doing. Kevin helped me a little on a part of the instructions that I kept getting stuck on. After we figured it out the rest was a breeze to put together. I used a gradient and pattern texture for the shapes.

PHOTOSHOP TIPS: KB INSTRUCTIONS

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PHOTOSHOP TIPS: KB INSTRUCTIONS

Bridget had me make a photoshop quick tip page in the KB editor. I added images and supplemental material for the main tips she had sent to me. As time goes on each of these steps will probably have their own in-depth sections with lots of useful information and examples of various ways to use them.

 

KB INSTRUCTIONS: CREATING YOUR OWN CASCADE SITE

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KB INSTRUCTIONS: CREATING YOUR OWN CASCADE SITE

More on my notes in the basecamp assignment of what I did:

I added more photos because I find them to be of tremendous help in locating where things are in an unfamiliar site. The broken images are removed and I added supplementary tips and texts.
For every step that required a photo to be uploaded I put it at the beginning of the instructions, so that they don’t start working through it and realize they have to go back to upload something. It made the process less fluid IMO when I was doing this.

 

 

Thuy Nguyen 2019-2020 Orientation

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Hi Thuy!

During the later part of your STA Orientation Aug. 20, 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

Log-in to the STA word press blog:

Publishing Help Documentation/Instructions
Read this WP sites “Publishing Help” before you upload your banner.
STA publishing help:
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.
Image specs.
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
Always  use Categories for all of your posts
Check the “2019 Fall, Winter – Spring, Summer 2020” 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.

Comment on Basecamp

Notification comments: etiquette, files, questions, feedback

Let us 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.
Use “@”name of STA mentor
and   “@”Suloni
on your bascamp comment:
  • to ask us questions you may have about the mechanics of using the STA blog,
  • about the mechanics of photoshop,
  • to let us know that you have completed this task,
  • that you would like a little feedback on on your banner design 🙂

Thank you & have fun!