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STAs: Student Technology Assistants

Who We Are
LAITS: IT and Facilities Director, Joe TenBarge initiated the Student Technology Assistant program in 2004. STAs are UT students who work on a variety of projects in collaboration with UT faculty and LAITS staff members. STAs assist College of Liberal Arts faculty members and administrative staff with print and web design. From building presentations, to creating audio/visual works, and producing online classes in the LAITS film studios, STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for multimedia projects that enhance their teaching and the students learning experience. By the end of their student careers, STAs have portfolios which demonstrate their accrued technical and design skills.

Prospective STAs:

Creative and technically inclined students are appointed as STAs for one year, with the possibility of being rehired as long as they study at the university. Applicants for the program are hired before both long semesters. Interested students may look for postings on Hire-A-Longhorn when positions are available. Positions will have Student Technology Assistant (illustrator or web designer) in the title of the job post.

Faculty and Staff:

Faculty & Staff with questions about services, please contact us.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/contacts.php

  • Audio Services: Michael C Heidenreich, Director of Studio Operations & STA Program Coordinator
  • Video Services: Kelly Webster, Video Production Supervisor, Video STA Supervisor
  • Graphic Design & Web Design Services: Suloni Robertson, Art Director / Design & Coding STA Supervisor

4-15-19

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Vlabs

Been doing more vlabs, making the assets, and then I’m going to start making some in Canvasser using assets that have already been created. Here are a few labs that I finished:

 

Refactor

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Today I worked on adding the functionality of clear all to the filters set, additionally I start refactoring the code, beginning in almost 1400, the code got reduced to more than 1100 lines.

Web Services Rebuild

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LAITS! Web Services! Rebuild! Done??

Hey guys :’) it’s been a bit! Coming back from winter break I quickly realized that this semester was going to be wayyy different from last semester. With school getting harder (MIS I’m looking at you) & just general life I realized I had to cut back on my STA hours! So, since I’m working less, I’m just now finishing up the project that I’ve been working on this semester. I was tasked with redesigning & rebuilding the LAITS Web Services page & now I’m finally done!

 

Check it out!

 

It looks SO different from the original (see a couple blog posts ago!!), I’m in shock. I took a video of the page updating when we published the production page for my one second of the day today. Tim found it amusing. 🙂

Bibliography sort

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Today I made some modifications the the theatre of philosophers site. I updated the prototype’s as well the site’s title. Later, I modify the text filtering in order to be case sensitive. Finally, I dedicated time to sort the list of bibliographies giving priority to the author last name, second the title of the bibliography, and then I change the format to the unify format.