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Week 5/9 – 5/16

May 11, 2023 By Leilani Cabello

UTFC Greenscreen Edits

Project: Greenscreen Image Sourcing
Notes: A handful of STAs were tasked with finding royalty-free images and uploading them into a PowerPoint. As a team, our responsibility is to insert the correct copyright info into a Spreadsheet our Art Director, Maddy, had made. I’ve been going through many images that are suitable for the vocabulary words. Lately, I’ve been working on finding images for vocabulary words based on the city Marrakech, Morocco!

 

AI in Healthcare

Project: PowerPoint Title cards
Notes: This week I was asked to help create a ppt file in the title cards folder on box for the professor to make make title card slides. There’s a specific theme and style that must be formatted for the professors and course material. A previous STA had made all of the graphics so all I had to do was past an image into PowerPoint and upload.

 

GOV 365W, Human Rights/World Politics

Project: Course Graphic Update
Notes: This week I was asked to help update course graphics such as banners and backdrops in Canvas  for the professor’s Canvas page. There’s a specific theme and style that must be formatted for the professors and course material. A previous STA had made all of the graphics so all I had to do was edit the name of the instructors in the graphics and upload.

 

HIS315K (Ozanne)

Project: Course Graphic Update
Notes: This week I was asked to help update course graphics such as banners and backdrops in Canvas for the professor’s Canvas page. There’s a specific theme and style that must be formatted for the professors and course material. A previous STA had made all of the graphics so all I had to do was edit the name of the instructors in the graphics and upload.

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, We are STAs

isaiah ~ week 003

May 9, 2023 By Isaiah Thomas

  Week 3

shrek the third

MAY 1st – 5th

 

This is my third week as a Web Development and Design STA,  I worked on a few more trainings. I also worked alongside Thang on a web development project.

 

One of the trainings I completed was HTML & CSS 02: Basic Web Pages. I was able to learn some new things about the innerworkings of a website by creating my own webpage from scratch using HTML and CSS in Visual Studio Code. It took me some time to research how to adapt the tutorial’s instructions, for they were designed for Atom; yet, I enjoyed working on the assignment and am excited to learn more about the magic behind websites. I left some screenshots of my work below.

 

 

I also worked on the Introduction to Websites tutorial from the LAITS KB. Here are some screenshots from the ppt activity I worked on.

 

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, We are STAs

Week LXXIV

May 9, 2023 By Adrian McKee

Week LXXIV

Biostats logo

So shortly after last week’s meeting, Leilani and I drafted several more ideas. Drawing logos in sharpie is very fun.

This was the suite we sent to the clients:

Who liked 1 and 3 the most. So I started drafting 1. It started off a little skinny…

Maddy suggested thickening the dna strands. It was still not very well standardized though.

I ended up redoing all of it on a precise 50 x 50 grid.

Here’s how it looks in white!

Currently working on animation, which will be… interesting!

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, We are STAs

Week 5/2 -5/8

May 8, 2023 By Leilani Cabello

Biostats Logo

Project: edXBiostatistics Assets
Due On: May 12
Notes: The goal of the logo is to get students to draw a connection of the course Biostatistics to the logo. I talked with a fellow STA, Adrian, about what logos we liked and narrowed our choices down. We both sketched a few and image-traced potential ideas. Maddy, our design director gave us some helpful image ideas to keep in mind like health (like DNA, cells), and statistics (like charts/axes, graphs). here’s our first iteration and combined logos:

 

Then after some feedback from Maddy, I expanded on some other ideas of mine.

 

Then Adrian and I then combined our logos for the client to choose.

Biostats Backdrop

Project: edXBiostatistics Assets
Due On: May 12
Notes: The goal of the logo is to get students to draw a connection of the course Biostatistics to the backdrop. For the backdrop, I removed the TEXAS logo and replaced other images with a mix of bio/health/stats images from stock photo sites. I referenced a template Maddy provided and placed each image as they fit.

 

UTFC Greenscreen Edits

Project: Greenscreen Image Sourcing
Notes: A handful of STAs were tasked with finding royalty-free images and uploading them into a PowerPoint. As a team, our responsibility is to insert the correct copyright info into a Spreadsheet our Art Director, Maddy, had made. Overall, I found the process therapeutic and gives a means to paying attention to detail when finding images.

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, We are STAs

TXDST Mockups

May 8, 2023 By Luisa Matzner

TXDST Web Redesign

Idea Mockups

Project: TXDST Website Redesign
Client /Prof: TXDST
Completion Status: To be finished fall 2023 semester
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Mocking up ideas in Figma

After spending some time sketching out some layout ideas for the county and stories homepage segments on paper, I decided to bring a few of the ideas into Figma to see how they would look at a higher fidelity. I focused on the usability of the cards and the option to expand further if needed.

 

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Caption QR Code for Graduation

May 4, 2023 By Luisa Matzner

Spring 2023 Commencement

Graphic for QR Code for Captions

Project: Spring 2023 Commencement
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Finished
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Making a quick graphic to house a QR code.

 

can’t wait to see all the graphics tomorrow!

 

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

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