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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

V-labs

April 3, 2019 By Chloe Kim

The past week, I have been trained by Emily & Valerie to start making .psd assets for V-labs, which is the online Anthropology class we’ve been working on. Now it is time to tackle the interactives!!!

Lab 2 | Sec 2

What the opening screen would look like:

The first screen that the user would see:

 

I created bunch of different clickable AND type-able assets for this interactive. Not only was this my first assignment, but this particular one was tricky, because there are technically 2 different interactives going on (top + bottom). I somehow managed to figure it all out, and I ended up making over 50 different assets. Although making these interactive assets requires a lot of thinking, I kind of like it because it feels like problem-solving/ working with puzzle pieces. It helps a lot to label all the different layers, no matter how many there may be!

Here’s the second interactive I worked on, which was a LOT easier than the first assignment:

Lab 3 | Sec 5 

Opening screen:

The stationary background; the text box will have different instructions before/ after you take a quiz. I had to change some of the wordings of the instructions, because there are certain things that canvassar cannot do, which is to see which answers student got right/wrong.

I made an “answer key” when you click the “Check” button, so that the students can compare their answers with the correct ones.

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Routing solve

April 2, 2019 By Clarissa Miranda

Today embedding the router view in a keep-alive element solve the rendering properties of the router link, making easier to navigate through the site.

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Filter Done

April 1, 2019 By Clarissa Miranda

Today I made a huge progress on the filtering of the different sections of the site (philosophers, bibliographies, contributors and index).

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Filtering

March 29, 2019 By Clarissa Miranda

Today I continue working on the filter panels.

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Display complete info

March 27, 2019 By Clarissa Miranda

Today, I was able to display the full information for the lists, also, I started to reorder the code in order to start the filter of the lists.

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Work & Life Update

March 26, 2019 By Chloe Kim

It’s been pretty slow since we got back from spring break, b u t! I have been working mostly on the upcoming STA presentation. I finally finished my keynote, and so all I have left is to master my presentation skills! (yep, I’m a noob)

Just a personal update: Ya girl got her first freelancing gig (outside UT) !!!!! I’ve been contacted by this guy through my portfolio, and I ended up collaborating with him on scientific illustrations for this company in Switzerland for an article they are trying to publish. I was so happy that all the hard work and effort put into the textbook illustrations paid off in a way that allows me to keep growing as a graphic designer & illustrator. These are the 2 images I produced so far:

& not related to design/ graphics at all, I really felt the need to share the beauty of the Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, and Sedona with y’all (even though iPhone 7 camera don’t do it justice) !! Everyone should visit Arizona !!

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

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