UTFC Reverse Image Search

Project: Reverse Image Searching
Notes: As I have some downtime this week, I moved onto a PPT I’ve done in the past to see how that image sourcing goes. So far for the UTFC project we need to find images that we’ve used in the past for image crediting. The main goal of these assignments was to get a feel for how time-consuming they will be & start making a case for alternatives like purchasing photos, etc. I ended up finding 20+ images for each module and formatting the links into the table below.

UTFC Greenscreen Edits

Project: Greenscreen Image Sourcing
Due On: April 20th
Notes: A handful of STAs were tasked with finding royalty-free images and uploading them into a PowerPoint. As a team, our responsibility is to insert the correct copyright info into a Spreadsheet our Art Director, Maddy, had made. Overall, I found the process therapeutic and gives a means to paying attention to detail when finding images. As a newer update, I finished this module, meaning I found 24 images for the PowerPoint!

UTFC Studio Testing

Project: Backdrop Color Testing
Notes: Since UTFC plans on recording its lectures this summer, I had the opportunity to go inside the recording studio to test backdrops for the lecturer. It was a cool and fun moment to get a hands-on experience with the other side of this assignment! I could see the backdrops in real time and edit them to the correct display such as altering contrast and saturation inside Photoshop. This time around, another STA, Marissa Devivar was the model and I edited!

AI in Healthcare Course Graphics

Client/Prof: Department of Computer Science, Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Completion Status: Started on April 5
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Complete by: May 1

Still working on the new AI in Healthcare online course, which will be available through edX. This course will teach the positives of using AI technology in healthcare to reduce human error and make doctors more successful and efficient in their work. This last week I’ve mostly been working on the logo and animation:

And I’ve made the following animations that we’re going back and forth on:

Additionally, I also cranked out some of the other course assets:

And here are all the assets together on a design menu:

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2023/04/24/48563-2/

Week 24

STA Training: Google Analytics

Started on: April 18, 2023

Completed on: April 21, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description: For this project, I got to learn Google Analytics. Basically, it is a tool that can help with tracking the user that visits your website. It can give you a beautiful visual aid that displays different information about the user including the duration of their session and what types of activities they partake when they visit it.

Here are some lessons I learnt about Google Analytics.

1) It is easy to set up google analytics property with data stream in which it connects to a website. Just put a tag in the head of the HTML file. Then, the data collection method will be updated in GA with pretty graphs and everything like that.
2) There is Google Tag Manager that could potentially help with tracking with Google Analytics. The Google Tag Manager is a main hub for any tracking code that you want to add to your website including Google Ads Sense and Facebook Pixel.
3) The Google Analytics provide a very extensive tool for companies to know a lot about the users. They can even track different activities that the user perform from the website including whether they view search results, item list and promotions.

As an exercise of this project, I have worked on moving Google Analytics Account from LAITS to LAITS CMS in order to make it easy for a user group to access it.

STA Orientation:  Welcome  Isaiah Thomas

Started on: April 21, 2023

Completed on: April 21, 2023

Description: For this orientation, I got to introduce myself and the objectives of Web and Design STA. I also walked him through Github training to clone a repository onto his local machine.

Project Google Analytics

Started on: April 21, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description: For this project, I needed to check if a website has google analytics or not. So I need to go to each website to install Site Kit and check if there is an existing Google Analytics Account associated with the website or not. If not, then the next step of this project is to actually create and link it to the website.

UTFC Studio Testing

Project: Backdrop Color Testing
Notes: Since UTFC plans on recording its lectures this summer, I had the opportunity to go inside the recording studio to test backdrops for the lecturer. It was a cool and fun moment to get a hands-on experience with the other side of this assignment! I could see the backdrops in real time and edit them to the correct display such as altering contrast and saturation inside Photoshop.

UTFC Greenscreen Edits

Project: Greenscreen Image Sourcing
Due On: April 20th
Notes: A handful of STAs were tasked with finding royalty-free images and uploading them into a PowerPoint. As a team, our responsibility is to insert the correct copyright info into a Spreadsheet our Art Director, Maddy, had made. Overall, I found the process therapeutic and gives a means to paying attention to detail when finding images.

UTFC Title Card Edits

Project: PowerPoint Title Card Replacement
Due On: April 19th
Notes: Since I had helped with studio backdrop testing for modules 3 and 4, I was responsible for updating the greenscreens title cards. For the title slide, to replace the background photo with the new backdrop photo, we had to the Corrections tab and select Brightness -40% while also covering the LAITS Studio logo.