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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

Great Progress

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Today I was able to display the actual philosopher to the site, with all of its information, such as other categories into the browser.

Selecting Walter Benjamin as philosopher
Displaying philosopher information such as essay, live years
More supporting information to the website

Another HIST poster update

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project: “Genealogies of Freedom”
Client /Prof: Courtney
completion status: Finito!
staff guidance: Suloni
STA team members: N/A
description/plans: create a 11 x 17 event poster
To be completed: Mar. 3, 2019

In just 2 days, I had to create an event poster for the History department again. It was really fun, in a sense that I had to focus more on the text and the typography than the graphic design itself. I am learning a lot about alignment, text sizes, and how important layout is for design! The image used had to resemble one of Andy Warhol’s works, and that section only took me about 10 mins. Laying out the text took most of the time, but I am ultimately super happy with the result!

Displaying Philosophers

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Today, I worked on displaying the list of philosophers, the data is already in the global application, I am working on following the Vue js standard to display each of the philosophers as a list.

Data in the browser

Decoupling vue js components

History Poster

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Department of History Promotional Materials

 

I got assigned to work on promotional materials for the Department of History last week. I worked with the same client not too long ago on the Churchill poster and I’m glad to be working with him again. I have a lot of fun with these posters because it sometimes is a challenge working with the photos they give you but it forces you to get creative.

 

The event for this poster is a lecture called “Cathedral Cities and the Territorialization of Spanish America”. I was provided one photo off a map and so I started playing with that to see what I could come up with. I chose to use the map as a sort of overlay that blends in and out with a picture of a colonial Spanish cathedral. This is only one concept but I will work on ideating some more on Monday!