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.
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 & Staff with questions about services, please contact us.
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/contacts.php
Making progress on the COLA Photo IDs! I did two today and I’m waiting for approval before I publish them on the COLA database and send out emails.
The COLA Photo IDs I worked on today.
I think I’m making better progress compared to my last shift. I’ll try to wrap up all the COLA IDs assigned to me next shift!
Today was very productive! I learned how to edit Photo IDs for faculty/staff/grad students and I’m still trying to get the hang of editing. Estella was super nice and helpful as she showed me the ropes.
Before and after editing and resizing Brittany Allen’s photo.
This was a very enlightening experience, though it took me some time to get it. I hope that I’ll get better and quicker as time goes on. I’m going to try to edit some more next time!
project: Thinking Public Banner Update
Client /Prof: Stacy Vlasits
completion status: Started Aug. 23rd, finished Aug. 30th, 2018
staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Stacy Vlasits
STA team members: na
description/plans: create a new banner image for TIP that is more visually oriented to prompt interest.
To be completed: Before Oct.
Original Image:
I got to participate in my first STA meeting today! I shared my posts and talked about what I’ve done in the past 3 days. It was really cool seeing what other people were working on and seeing their progress on their projects was fascinating.
I also finished my caricature despite my problems with ProCreate!!!
It’s me!
I also read up on the Photo ID process to completion, so I’ll be able to practice and learn some more tomorrow with some guidance from Estella. Lots to look forward to!
I did a quick patch design for LV4 STA. I was going to make it a fourth dimension cube, but it ended up becoming 4 cubs overlapping.
