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.

Updating a Professor’s Faculty Page

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I finished this project back in November. It involved interviewing Dr. Bsumek about what she believed would be the best to have on her faculty page to make it more informative and robust. Before the the scheduled interview, I read upon her work and research. She studies Native American history and recently published a book on the sale of Navajo-made products. During the interview, we decided it would be helpful to add tabs for her books, public engagement/teaching videos, and one on her past PhD students. The purpose of all this is to make her page a better research for any student who wants to learn about her research.

The homepage with added tabs

I embedded videos into the public engagement page.

The tab with her books

She gave me information on her past students for the “Past Graduate Students” page.

All of the changes were made through the LAITS database and with a couple of lines of html at times. I really enjoyed working on this project because I got to work directly with Dr. Bsumek and we hopefully created something that would help other UT students.

Online Course Material

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Today I’ve been bouncing a few different tasks, one of which was swapping in a new banner image for the Summer 2017 promotional flyer and screen ad. This is just the first step in the process of updating these materials for the Summer 2017 session. All the courses will need to be updated, the text changed, and the alignment adjusted as well. The banner image will likely change too, but the ball has to start rolling somewhere!

 

 

 

 

1/3 /17

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Today I’ve been working on powerpoints again. Here’s a before/after image of one of the slides. They somehow get very cramped and unreadable when they get updated sometimes. So that’s where I come in!