STA Blog

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.

2/15/17

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Here’s a quick update of a COLA ID I did today, a before and after. I’m still learning what all photoshop can do for photo editing, but I’m finding it easier as I learn more!

 

 

2/11/17

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Here is the final finished banner for the LAITS website! I’m glad it’s done, and I had fun working on it. It took me a long time because I’m really new to design, but it was really cool for me to get some experience in that department. Now my work is on the UT website! I feel so famous. (Haha yeah right)

TGDP Banner

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It doesn’t actually look this green…

Updating Banner

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Today I completed a simple task on cascade: updating the banner on the page below.  

 

First I had to use PhotoShop to reformat the new image and change the resolution

After uploading the new image in Cascade I published the new page.

RUS 406 Photos

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The other project I’m working on at the moment (also with lots of STAs) is finding copyright-free photos for a course on Russian Culture and Language.

We work from a spreadsheet with all the images we need to have, and spaces for several photos:

From there we search through several different image websites, looking for photos that fit the descriptions given in the spreadsheet.