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JUNE 28, 2011

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LMS testing

  • thoroughly enjoyed playing with Canvas

LMS lab sessions for faculty

  • nobody ever showed up! :/

Purple Martin Slides for Doughty

  • scanned, cropped/cleaned, and minor color corrections
  • burned images to DVD for pickup

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Scanning/ColorCorrection Tutorials

  • met with Angie & Megha
  • reviewed Angie’s corrected practice images and provided feedback
  • recieved Angie’s follow-up corrections
  • recieved Megha’s first corrected practice images
  • still need to review and give feedback for Megha

Scanning/ColorCorrection wikis

  • started adding stuff to the Scanning wiki
  • resumed editing Color correction tutorial document to be transfered to wiki

Summer 2011 (May 25 – June 28)

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———-DONE!———-

Masterworks Videos [2 hrs]

– Met with Camri on Wednesday about what to do

– Got clips for: Arabian Nights 1, Arabian Nights 2, What Dreams May Come, Prospero’s Books, 1492

– A few movies couldn’t be found

French Art Site Update [4.75 hrs]

– Met with Dustin on Thursday on what to do

– Started and finished renaissance section

– Started and finished 19s section

Arabic[1.5 hrs]

– Helped Ran with some audio issues

LMS Selecting and Training [total 15 hrs]

– Wednesday meeting: got usernames/passwords for everything

– Signed up for lab shifts for next Tues/Thurs

– Checked out moodlerooms and desire2learn

———-DONE EXCEPT FOR A FEW THINGS———-

Pitch Perfect Pinyin[total: 26.75 hrs]

– Done units: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12

– Fixed links to audio: found a few weird bugs

– Done except for: images for units 11 and 12; audio missing in various places

Olivelle Update[this week: 0.5 hrs; total: 3.25 hrs]

– Fixed a few files

———-ONGOING———-


South Asia Institute videos[4 hrs]

– Met with Andre and Suloni

– Made mockupsone,two, andthree

– Made mods to optionthree

– Need to start coding the HTML/CSS to the video page (option 3)

Twitter/ Libby Page re-design [1.5 hrs]

– Made a mock twitter page

– Sent to Jessica and Suloni for feedback

New STA Training: Miscellaneous[1.75 hrs]

– Met with Suloni

New STA Training: Paper Cut Art tutorial[2.75 hrs]

– Prepared / planned out snake tutorial

– Met with Angie and Megha Monday at 1 for a 45 min tutorial

– Assigned Angie and Megha animal illustrations

New STA Training: Realistic illustration tutorial [8.5 hrs]

– Started graduate illustrations

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STA Update 6.28.11

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Twins Project – Completed – Total hours this week: . hrs

  • Imported the spanish content
  • Imported all english content
  • Added the spanish/english button

College 2 Career – Completed – Total hours this weekish: 6.00 hrs

  • With Ran’s help created the dynamic sidebar switch out (DSSO)

Law Banner – Active – Total hours this week: .5 hrs

    • Made other iterations of banner

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  • Changed styles on website to suit clients tastes

What’s Left

  • Change mockup once more
  • Change styles and find a border color

Uncanny Drupal – Active – Total hours this weekish: 4.5 hrs

  • Made an Uncanny Zen sub-theme
  • Almost finished styling navigation area
  • Began styling content’s p, ul, li etc

What’s Left

  • Finish styling content
  • Make sure header styles are consistent w/ current Uncanny site
  • Determine best method to style/implement scheduling blocks

Henri Michaux – Active – Total hours this weekish: 3.5 hrs

  • Started using motion and made progress!
  • Motion works really well and I’m picking it up quickly
  • Synced 2 minutes, including my learning curve for the using Motion, in 3 hours

What’s Left

  • Scale images correctly so type is not distorted
  • Sync remaining footage (doing it by slide, I did one 5000px block in 3hrs, and have 4 5000px left)