LAITS Student Technology Assistants collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts faculty and administration by re-imagining their instructional and promotional projects with a creative use of video, audio, web and graphic design. STAs learn technical skills on the job with LAITS development studio staff. They build presentations, produce audio/visual works, scan text documents & perform image correction. STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for instructional technology projects used to enhance the teaching and learning experience.
Today, I continued working on the diagram project and took almost 2 hours just to draw Spongebob…
Then, I fiddled around with Bethany’s Polina desgin on Photoshop for the upcoming Russian class – it was cool to connect the different body parts that she has already made into varying positions, such as sitting and standing.
I was given a task by Suloni to come up with a diagram regarding the photo ID processing. After sketching out my idea first, I learned to use Illustrator to carry out my assignment. I love Illustrator–it is much easier and more fun to use than Photoshop, personally. I’ve been fooling around with different tools and brushes and effects, and I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. Can’t wait to see the finished product…
In the past three days, I’ve already learned so much as a new STA. On the first day, I learned how to log time, make my own banner for the STA blog, and was taught by Bethany how to use Photoshop. I felt so helpless, yet so excited to start this new job! I definitely appreciate all the patience and warm welcoming I’ve received from everyone in the office.
On the second day, I focused on COLA Photo ID processing. It was fun learning how to edit the photos through Photoshop, as well as contacting the clients regarding their photo submissions. It feels cool to be part of something big!
Today, I finished up my painting tutorial using Photoshop, as well as submitted another photo ID to the COLA db. It took me a while to find the “right” brush, as well as to draw with a mouse, but it definitely felt good to draw again. I realized how much I’ve missed art, since I don’t get much exposure to it as a STEM major. I can’t wait to dig deeper into using different applications like Photoshop this summer!!!
Here are some stills from the second animation I made, which involves two people listening to music. This one was fun to make!
Here are the initial concept designs for characters to be animated in the RUS animated videos.
Nick Lavigne 1st day as an STA!
Today I got settled in and met everyone. I created my banner for the blog which you can see above and also my avatar for Basecamp. Look forward to getting started on TBH!