Progress Update on the CHI507 and the RUS412K Projects (as well as some other little tidbits)

The CHI507 Project is in its final stages! (Hallelujah). There are just 2 more videos to touch up before we wait for absolute final approval from the professor. Because of having to do videos over again, I was able to gain more experience in the leading projects and sending assignments/providing edit notes. However, I am elated this project will soon draw to a close, as it’s lasted about twice as long as originally planned. With the RUS412K Project, we’re picking up momentum with production! Character assignments have been given to every STA involved in the project and I have already received three in return! I also assigned Duo to update the ppt background for the new semester of Russian videos, and have sent her lovely first draft to the professor for critiques. I have established a worklfow with Samantha on how to handle the RUS406/RUS407 edits and will be beginning work on those this week! Finally, Rodrigo and I spent about 4 hours last week attempting to create an interactive last week in Adobe Animate utilizing Drag and Drop features. Unfortunately, we had little success:^( However, I plan to explore this some more! So much to do!! AHHH!!

Wowee another UI design project! Keep ’em coming, Suloni. I’m having fun with these.

Nation of Immigrants is a WordPress site that Kathy and I will be designing the layout and feel of. The site houses an archive of info and documents about the immigration history of the United States. Once again, this is a really cool and important project because the design of the website is going to be able to make this information all the more accessible!

Here is the first round of mockups:

CHI 507 PPT Video Project Update

The CHI507 Project has been moving along magnificently since the issues we had with the font. Before, syncing these videos took probably about a month and a half. Now, with the all-hands-on-deck approach for the resyncs, we’ve completed roughly the same amount of videos in about 2 weeks. Personally, I received experience quickly training STAs in workflow processes they have not done before, assigning todos/giving adequate feedback, as well as streamlining the video sync workflow process. Here’s to wrapping up this project by the end of this week! I’ve included a screenshot of the basecamp assignments for this project. The checked off ones are officially complete, the grey ones are the ones that have been assigned to an STA for syncing, most of which are done and are just awaiting edit notes and the yellow ones are remaining videos to be completed!