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edX Video Background Mock Graphics

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A series of 7 videos about Effective Thinking by Dr. Starbird that require background graphics. I watched the videos for their general main ideas and found generic stock backgrounds to define what graphic needs to be illustrated for the final product.

I proposed the idea of using the entire pentagon for every video, with the relevant triangle highlighted.

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About the depth of the mind and mindful thinking.

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About mistakes being an integral process of success.

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About crafting your own questions.

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About constructing a mindset to see where ideas are coming from and going to.

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About transforming yourself to actively use the previous four elements of thinking.

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About a class that required jumping into interactive work, not just being taught.

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About how wonderful it is to think.

edX Chalk Drafts

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Last week Suloni asked me to very quickly draw up some example images of chalk illustrations in the negative space behind Professor Michael Starbird in his Effective Thinking edX video clips. Here are a couple such images.

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Kincaid Critters Redesign

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For TBH I’ve been working on a redesign for the “Kincaid Critters” interactive. This is a kid’s section activity of the site which asks the student to match a textual description of each ancient animal to its corresponding image. I’ve been focusing on making it both more visually appealing and intuitive. (I still need to drop in Jun’s icon to let the viewer know immediately that this is interactive.)

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Workday Illustrations

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Workday is a new software that will soon be used throughout UT’s faculty and staff. I am responsible for creating illustrations that will later be animated into an introduction video for its new users.

 

First thing to be illustrated was the tower:

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Second was a reel-to-reel mainframe:

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More to come!

Card

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This project was more of a learning experience. I had to create this card using HTML and CSS. Also, when you click on the card, a pop-up appears, and writing a string into that pop-up will change all the strings in the card that read “Connoly” to the pop-up string. JQuery was used to implement this functionality.

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Creating a Webpage for Life & Letters Magazine

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Life & Letters would like to change the current appearance of their site, which looks like this:

 

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They want their site to appear more visual, so I am making it look better. So far, I have this: (The backend of the site is much harder to handle than the front-end.  The front-end is letting me learn a lot too, since I essentially had to create the page from a blank slate. Making the correct articles appear in correct pages and lining that up with Wordress’s CMS is frankly very challenging, because WordPress’s documentation is absolutely terrible when compared to Oracle’s Java APIs.)

 

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