Elizabeth McAlister

Category: Graphic Design

Logo Design: Echoed Calls

Original Image “Mountain Hut” – by Felix Mittermeier on Pixabay

The author’s request was to focus on the cabin with the trees in the background – he requested having it B&W. Make the image a circle, add a blue outer ring that would compliment 007147 (dark/forest green). Inside the ring put 4 items: (a) Echoed at the top [at 12 o’clock], (b) Calls at the bottom [at 6 o’clock], (c) A small cross at both left and right [so 9 o’clock & 3 o’clock] – no preference on font or font color. The final product has a transparent background so he can use it on any materials needed (web or print).

May 5, 2020
Intervention Evaluation

Course: Performance System Technology. Spring 2020

Assignment: Create an infographic to teach the most important information about intervention evaluation—overview, planning, and implementing—and provide my rationale.

Response: Evaluation is the foundation of a successful Performance Improvement Intervention. The three main types (formative, summative, and confirmative) form one part of the support. Underneath that is Meta Evaluation

which supports the overall evaluation process by confirming the validity of the other evaluations, and thus, the value of the intervention itself.

I believe it would be valuable to someone on-the-job primarily because it gives a basic and concise explanation of each evaluation type, its purpose, when it’s typically done in the life cycle of an intervention, and what is involved in the implementation of each evaluation type. For a practitioner, this could provide enough information for them to decide the type of evaluation needed and provides sufficient information for them to dig deeper should they need or want to do so.

April 20, 2020
Organizational Communication Intervention

March 2020: Partnered project to create a website to teach classmates about Organizational Communication Interventions (Chapter 15 of our textbook) using Google Sites. Video was made using Adobe Spark. All graphics came from Pixabay (royalty-free/creative commons licensed images). Created chalkboard and caution signs using Photoshop. In order to embed video, I had to create a YouTube channel and upload from there. Rotating “take-aways” at the bottom of the site were done in Google Slides by my project partner, Andrew Sparks. We worked together to tweak the timing and autoplay. Layout was his idea and we worked together to make the sections cohesive and informative.

Source: Van Tiem, D.M., Moseley, J.L., & Dessinger, J.C. (2012). Fundamentals of performance improvement: Optimizing results through people, process, and organizations (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.

Website: Organizational Communication Interventions

YouTube Video

March 28, 2020
Performance Analysis Graphic

Course: Performance System Technology. Spring 2020

Assignment: Design a graphic organizer to compare and contrast and share what you have learned in your reading regarding the following: performance analysis, organizational analysis, environmental analysis, gap analysis, cause analysis.

Response: From the readings, I got the impression that the organizational, environmental, gap, and cause analyses were all part of the Performance Analysis. In analyzing performance, you look at the organization (its vision, mission, etc.) and the environment (influences from society, culture, skill level, etc.) to determine the desired and actual performances. From there, the gap analysis is done in order to identify the difference between the desired and actual performances, and lastly, a cause analysis to determine why that gap exists. I’m honestly not sure how to “compare and contrast” – They’re alike in that they are all analyzing aspects of performance process, but each analyzes a different aspect and they join together as the overall performance analysis.

Van Tiem, D., Moseley, J. L., & Dessinger, J. C. (2012). Fundamentals of Performance Improvement: Optimizing Results through People, Process, and Organizations (3rd Ed.). Pfeiffer.

March 21, 2020
Service-Learning Project: Genetic Counseling

March 2, 2020: This was a group project in which we worked with a client, Dr. Danielle Monteil, a geneticist at the US Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, to create a booklet to help her guide her patients through the process of deciding whether or not to have genetic testing done for hereditary cancer. After seeing how the color version printed out in grayscale, we opted to create a pure black and white copy and deliver both to our client for her to decide which she’d prefer to use.

My partners for this project were Victoria Dawkins and Melissa Simpson.

Goal Statement: Using the provided patient resource the patient will be able to explain the basic concepts associated with using genetic testing to predict hereditary cancer.

The following documents include the full design and analysis report, the final product (color and black & white), and the final report which was a reflection on the project.

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February 28, 2020
Job Aid: Adding a YouTube Video to Kaltura

Course: Universal Differentiated Instructional Design and Development

Assignment: Create a job-aid for UAB Teaching Faculty that provides step-by-step instructions for technology they are likely to use.

In my initial iteration of this assignment (November 2019), I didn’t care for the layout or size of the images. I had done them based on my understanding of the template and instructions. The below is a version I’m more comfortable sharing with the world.

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November 11, 2019
Trapped in Love: A Memoir on Marriage, Parenting, and Loss (B.A. English Lit, Honors Thesis)

Why “Trapped in Love”?

In 2010, we had a son, Keith Alton. Our daughter was 7 years old at the time and had long blond hair. She would hover over him in his bouncy seat, making it so it was just her face and his inside a wall of blond hair, and tell him, “You’re trapped in sissy love!”

Trigger warning: Keith died at two months of age. Sections I and III talk about this, the third more in depth than the first. Section III is a braided essay style and includes first person accounts of the night and aftermath of Keith’s death and the day and aftermath of my mother’s death.

Section 1: Marriage

Written in a poetry format, this section talks about mine and Brian’s relationship from beginning to 2018 (when this paper was submitted). The image is a depiction of what the computer screens looked like when we met and the verse is one that I consider to be “ours.”

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Section 2: Parenting

Written in a mix of prose and poetry, this section is dedicated to my daughter, Taylor . The verse is one that I think of as “hers.”

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Section 3: Loss

Written in poetry form, somewhat braided essay style only in that Keith’s portion is on the left and Mom’s portion is on the right. I wrote the haiku on the image.

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May 27, 2018