CHINESE 507 Online Course

An older Chinese online language course has been revived for completion recently and I’ve been tasked as the guy to sync it up! It follows a similar workflow as the Russian online course I’ve been working on. In fact, it’s responsible for establishing some of the norms for making these types of videos at LAITS, which continued on to the Russian online course. Some of the processes are a little dated but I’ve gotten into the swing of things and have already knocked out about about 10 videos since being assigned it a little over a week ago.

Personal STA Presentations Progress

I have made much progress on my own STA presentations as well. I have been assigned two presentations, one for an animated Austin Skyline I made for a live broadcast online AET class, and one for the Russian Online course I have devoted so much of my time to since beginning this job. The Russian online course presentation has taken some time to develop, it has already gone under two major structural changes and about 3 or 4 drafts, but I believe it’s near its completion! The AET presentation was a little simpler for me to break down, especially since there was much less to talk about, it’s first draft is complete and will probably only need a few minor adjustments.

STA Presentation Progress

I’ve mainly been working on preparing for the STA presentation set for April 20th since last posting on the blog. I was first tasked with establishing the Keynote template that every STA will use for their presentation. I started by placing the LAITS presentation background that was provided to me onto the background of the “Master Slides” for the Presentation template. I then established a color scheme based of the LAITS color block in the bottom left of the slide and created a number of line, shape and table styles that reflected this color scheme. I even made a tutorial for using Keynote if there were any STAs unfamiliar with the program.