Week 8

 

Project: Texas Beyond History Git LFS Documentation

 

Project: Texas Beyond History documentation

Client: Texas Beyond History

Started on: Started February 28, 2023

Completion status: In progress

Staff Guidance: Stacy, Marianne

Description/plans: write Git Wiki documentation to help clients use git in Adobe Dreamweaver

 

Texas Beyond History is a website built on Adobe Dreamweaver that has existed for a while. It has many contributors working on it, uploading code and images. Recently, we have been asked to move the website’s contents to a git repository to store the large size files. In this project, I write documentation on how to use the git work flow in Adobe Dreamweaver.

 

 

Through out the process of setting up Dreamweaver and Git, I have been taking notes on Notion

Git Wiki Draft Preview

 

UTFC Logo Design 

Project: Connexions Francophones Logo
Notes: I tweaked this project a bit by adjusting the placement of the dots on the logo and experimenting with typefaces. I haven’t gotten the chance to focus on this project as much but I’m sure I’ll finish soon!

 

STA Poster 

Project: Spring 2023 STA Presentation Poster
Due On: ???
Notes: This week, I rendered the backdrop to the STA poster a bit more. I had other STAs help with cutting out photos of the STAs so many thanks to everyone who helped! I’m currently waiting for some other design requests for this poster to come through so in the meantime I’ve been working on other assignments.

Week 19

RACE Lab Logo

project: Resilience and Adversity (in) Children’s Ecology Lab Logo
Client /Prof: Professor Ibekwe-Okafor
completion status: Started March 2, 2023
staff guidance: Maddy and Valerie
description/plans: Design a logo/branding for Prof. Ibekwe-Okaforwork that can be used on her website.
To be completed: before Summer

• key terms: access, resilience, systems (Brunfenbrenner), education, early development, adversity, & black joy
• steer away from explicit political imagery and colors (red and blue)
• color: neutrals, earth tones, greenery
• layers and systems to the way people develop

brainstorming:

 

UTFC – City Image Search 9.2

project: UTFC – City Image Search 9.2
Client /Prof: Kyle
staff guidance: Leilani
STA team members: Leilani
description/plans:

• • Google the city and search for important landmarks
  • Find up to 5 high-quality images of buildings to include in the folder.
  • Find up to 2 cultural images (statues, markets, food, etc) to include in the folder.
  • When I have found all the images, upload them to the box folder and share the box link to basecamp for approval from Leilani

To be completed: March 8, 2023

• An issue I ran into during this image search is that there are very few copyright-free AND high-quality photos of Fa’a’ā. The selection increases when you search Papeʻete (the city Fa’a’ā is a suburb of), Tahiti, or Polynesia but I know Adrian is sourcing images for Pape’ete. This is definitely a challenge;p

 

STA CUT-OUTS

Project: STA cut-outs
Client: LAITS
started on: February 22, 2023
staff guidance: Maddy, Valerie
STA team members: Adrian, Lorena, Carrie, Leilani
description/plans: Cut out STAs from the background and remove blue reflections/correct coloring.

• minor edits: Valerie got back to those working on the STA cut-outs with feedback. Mostly it’s removing additional blue reflections from the STA and their clothes. Also, major props to Carrie for doing so many of these so quickly– I admire her workflow!!! :0

Chris (before/ after)

Robbie (before/after)

Week 7

 

Project: Qualtrics LTI Grade CSV Passback

Client/Prof: LAITS

Started on: February 6, 2023

Completion status: Completed on March 1, 2023

Staff guidance: Chris Pittman, Stacy Vlasits

Description/plans: Feature to download student responses as CSV file

 

Going back to the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture, these are the changes I made in each aspect of the tool.

 

Controller:

Applications built on the Laravel Framework have a controller that features functions that help the user interact with the database (not directly of course). These methods can be categorized as GET or POST. GET methods or functions retrieve data from the server and presents it to the user. When you browse for something online like pictures of cats and hit search, these pictures are retrieved from servers, so GET methods must be behind this. POST, you guessed it: posts your data to the server. When you create an account for the first time, your information is sent and stored in the server. An example of the cycle of GET and POST methods is when you search for an online store (getting user interface), logging in (posting your info and verifying that it’s correct), and then seeing the items in your cart or wishlist (getting again).

 

The function I implemented gradePassback() is a GET method.  This is the web.php file which includes all the HTTP routes. The “/” app the main URL calls a function that performs a GET or POST method. I added line 36 which calls the gradePassback() function.

 

These are my changes to the app controller. I used the LeagueCSV library to convert the data I pulled from the data base in a downloadable CSV file

 

 

View:

In the teacher interface, I added the button from my previous post. My first idea was to create a button in HTML and to make it redirect to /app/exportCSV I use a JavaScript block within the HTML to go to the link on click. After I made a pull request, Chris suggested that I link to the route and stylize it instead. This solution is much cleaner.

 

 

This is a sample of what the teacher side view looks like (these are not real people’s names)

 

 

and this is the CSV file that is retrieved when the Download CSV button is pressed

 

 

Update 3/1/2023

My contribution was merged to the main Qualtrics-LTI code repository on GitHub! Overall this was a really cool and insightful project to work on. Starting with no prior experience with MVC architecture, I learned about the framework used in a lot of web applications, technologies used in web dev, and the git workflow. Throughout this month I went from familiarizing myself with the project, to sometimes feeling frustration when setting up the development environment and figuring out how all the MVC components interact, to actually making a contribution.

Week 6

This week, I continued working on the Qualtrics LTI project after finally setting up the database and web servers. After getting Chris’s approval, I came up with a simple approach.

This is the professor’s/instructor’s view of the Qualtrics survey tool. At the bottom there is a “Responses”, this is where all the data about all students’ responses are found and we want to convert this into a downloaded CSV file. I drew up this button in Figma of how I plan on implementing it in HTML/CSS code.

     

 

 

 

Week 18

GSD Course Promo Flyer

Project: GSD Course Promo Flyer
Client /Prof: Germanic studies
Completion status: TBD
Staff guidance: Maddy, Valerie & Adrian
Description/plans: Germanic studies have requested a batch of course posters, so we’re using templates. Some of the posters have photo assets provided; choose 1-2 that look good together, collage if necessary but keep it simple! If assets aren’t provided, find something relevant to the course.

EUS 305

• The description of the course was quite brief so I wasn’t sure what kind of images would best suit this flyer. I’ve since received feedback from Adrian that “professors prefer newer ‘cleaner’ graphics when the topic is open-ended” He suggested looking into political maps of Europe or some EU-related symbol.

EUS 305: Final

GSD 341S

• Although this triptych seems a little jarring at first glance, it’s very direct about the progression from print to film. Tbh I would love to see how we got from a print and press to Heidi Klum on Germany’s Next Top Model.

GSD 361P

• There was a lot of back and forth about what kind of picture should be placed on the right (2014 world cup, 1936 Olympics, etc.)

 

STA Photo Cutouts

I started cutting out some STA photos but the ones I’ve completed are also design STAs and I do not want to put a giant pic of their face on my blog in case they don’t want that LOL