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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

PDTI

August 16, 2019 By Emily Park

Professional Development Travel Initiative

 

A few friends of mine in design and I applied to the College of Fine Arts Career Service’s Professional Development Travel Initiative (PDTI). To apply you must submit an application including your personal bios, resumes, sponsors, confirmations, itinerary, and budget. In addition, you must layout how you would document your trip if chosen to be funded. My group decided on Baltimore and Washington D.C. because Baltimore has a really different and cool art scene and is in close proximity to a bigger city like Washington D.C.

 

We put together the application below and we were each awarded $700 to go on our trip this October! We already booked the flights and hotels and I am extremely excited to go on this trip and meet with some really amazing studios ( I linked some of their sites below).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Graph Style Guide

August 16, 2019 By Emily Park

Virtual Labs Graph Style Guide

 

I worked on creating a style guide for all the graphs needing to be made for Virtual Labs. As there wasn’t really any set standard for how graphs should look, there were multiple different style discontinuities that we noticed on the graphs being made. I made an in-depth style guide which I hope explains everything in enough detail that we will see the discontinuities clear up.

 

 

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

UTDL

August 14, 2019 By Chloe Kim

UTDL

The past two days, Suloni has asked me to make branding mockups with the UT Deep Learning icon that Tate has created. I was to save the icon itself, icon + “UTDL”, and icon + “UT Deep Learning” into 5 different formats: .ai, .psd (white background), .png (transparent background), .eps (outlines), and .pdf (white background). Since our office mainly uses Photoshop, it was nice playing around with Illustrator and googling bunch of stuff I didn’t know, such as making lines into shapes, and saving text as shapes so it doesn’t get messed up with you send the design to the printer!

With the finished products, I was able to make mockups on t-shirts, mugs, and tote bags:

And I also made a website mockup for the professor:

It’s been awhile since I’ve worked on a design project, so it was definitely nice to take a break from vlabs and focus on something entirely different!

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

8/13 updates

August 13, 2019 By Valerie Tran

Here are some updates on V-labs via my Daily Plans:

8/5/2019

a. Last week, I assigned Emily some PSD files to review that were originally Maddy’s, reviewed PSD/PNG files, reviewed Canvasser assignments, assigned work to my coworkers, assisted those who may need my help, and continued working on redistributing assignments to my coworkers.
b. Today I will check Chloe’s review work, review PSD/PNG files, review Canvassers, try really hard to stay awake, assign out PSD/Canvasser to-dos as necessary, find all the hypothesis/quiz/graph interactives so that we can work towards standardizing them, and assist those who may need my help.
c. No impediments!

 

8/6/2019

a. Yesterday, I reviewed PSD/PNG files, reviewed Canvasser assignments, assisted those who may needed my help, and met with Stacy to work on a spreadsheet for Fall projects.
b. Today I will train Chloe on PSD/PNG review, assign Chloe PSD files to review, review PSD/PNG files, review Canvasser assignments, and assign work to my coworkers assist those who may need my help.
c. No impediments!

 

8/7/2019

a. Yesterday, I trained Chloe on PSD/PNG reviewing, assigned Chloe PSD files, reviewed PSD/PNG files, reviewed Canvasser assignments, and assign work to my coworkers.
b. Today I will assign Maddy some PSD files to review, review PSD/PNG files, review Canvasser assignments, assign work to my coworkers assist those who may need my help, and update my blog.
c. No impediments!

 

8/8/2019

a. Yesterday, I assigned Maddy some PSD files to reviewed, reviewed PSD/PNG files, reviewed Canvasser assignments, assigned work to my coworkers, updated my blog, and reorganized the V-Lab to-dos.
b. Today I will assign Emily some PSD files to review (originally Maddy’s), review PSD/PNG files, review Canvasser assignments, assign work to my coworkers, assist those who may need my help, and continue working on redistributing assignments to co-workers.
c. No impediments!

 

8/12/2019

a. Last week, I assigned Emily some PSD files to review that were originally Maddy’s, reviewed PSD/PNG files, reviewed Canvasser assignments, assigned work to my coworkers, assisted those who may need my help, and continued working on redistributing assignments to my coworkers.
b. Today I will check Chloe’s review work, review PSD/PNG files, review Canvassers, try really hard to stay awake, assign out PSD/Canvasser to-dos as necessary, find all the hypothesis/quiz/graph interactives so that we can work towards standardizing them, and assist those who may need my help.
c. No impediments!

 

8/13/2019

a. Yesterday, I checked Chloe’s review work, reviewed PS/PNG files, reviewed Canvassers, tried REALLY HARD to stay awake, assigned out PSD/Canvasser to-dos as necessary, found some of the hypotheses/quiz/graph interactives so that we can work towards standardizing them, and asssisted those who may need my help.
b. Today I will talk with Tate about the Russian workbook layout meeting, review PSD/PNG files, review Canvassers, assign out PSD/Canvasser to-dos as necessary, continue finding all the hypothesis/quiz/graph interactives so that we can work towards standardizing them, and assist those who may need my help.
c. No impediments!

 

 

I’ve been going through the Grav and the OG Flash site to find hypotheses, quiz, and graph interactives so that we can attempt to standardize them. I’ve also updated the template and asset PSD on Box (https://utexas.app.box.com/file/454374379623).

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Basic Training: Green Screen Editing

August 13, 2019 By Abriella Corker

GREEN SCREEN EDITING

Here is a basic training I just did today with green screen in photoshop. This one was pretty fun to do but the file got lost on me! Got to search for it now. If anything more practice makes perfect.



Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

update (?)

August 13, 2019 By Chloe Kim

I’ve just mainly been working on vlabs this past week! That includes both making my own and also reviewing others’ (mainly Maddy’s) psd assignments. Here are a few that I’ve done/ edited:

I also learned how to make a transparent background in .psd (for artboards), so Suloni has asked me to make a basic training instructions for others. I have uploaded the simple instructions on the Knowledge Base:

http://sites.la.utexas.edu/kb/2019/08/12/how-to-make-transparent-psd-backgrounds/

On Wednesday, Tate and I were filmed by Jacob & JP’s Video/Audio STA crew for the LAITS Documentation Series for the Mellon Scholars Seminar we led. It took about 2 hours, and Jacob asked us both personal and work-related questions, and he made it very easy for us to come up with our answers naturally! Overall, it was a very fun time, even though I was a bit nervous to get in front of the camera. We asked some of the other STA’s to pose for our BTS (Behind The Scene) photoshoot – thanks, yall!!!!

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

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