Elizabeth McAlister

Tag: Graphic Design

  • Elective Course – Individual Projects (Article Review, Informative Comic, Infographic)

    In an elective course taken early 2021, we were assigned to do three individual challenges (the course itself was primarily group work). The three I chose were an article review, creation of a comic strip explaining a concept from our textbook, and creation of an infographic explaining a concept from our textbook.

    Course Text: Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2016). E-learning and the science of instruction: proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. Wiley.

    Article Review

    Review an article from a professional, peer-reviewed, research oriented journal. Include a summary of the article, the value I felt it brought to the profession, the contribution I feel this made to my understanding of the subject matter, and ideas for new research generated from the article. I was actually disappointed with this article, but didn’t have time to find a new one. Besides, not everything can get two thumbs up.

    pdf available upon request

    Informative Comic Strip

    Create an informative comic strip expressing application of the content matter we have been covering.

    I decided to do a strip regarding the concept of the Segmenting Principle. available upon request

    Infographic

    Take the information you have learned and create an Infographic. I chose to do mine on a chapter from our text covering how people learn which, as it turns out, is essentially an overview of Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning. available upon request

  • Multimedia Design – Compilation of Course Projects

    Link to course compilation of Multimedia Design assignments

    Course Assignment Recap

    The final project for the Multimedia Design course was to create a “course” detailing each assignment.

    • Articulate Storyline
    • Rise 360
    • Quizmaker and Engage (Articulate 360)
    • Peek and Replay (Articulate 360)
    • Camtasia

    Link to Course

    Disclaimers: 

    The Quizmaker and Engage project is rather random. The purpose of the assignment was to utilize as much of the two programs as possible and then compile it into one Storyline “course.”  As I was posting this, I realized that I did not update the placeholder text to reflect the assignment details. Unfortunately, my trial membership had expired and I’m unable to update it at this time. The assignment details were:

    1. Use Quizmaker 360 to create 10 quiz slides from three built-in question categories. Include 4 Graded Questions, 4 Survey Questions, and 2 Freeform Questions. Save it to my computer.
    2. Use Engage 360 to create 10 interaction slides from 20 built-in interaction templates. Save it to my computer.
    3. Open Storyline, import the quiz and engage slides that you saved to the current story scene, add transitions, then publish the story.

    Second Camtasia assignment: The assignment was to “either use Camtasia to record my computer screen as a screen cast video clip or download a video clip from YouTube.” I ended up putting multiple videos together* and created, essentially, an homage to Eddie Van Halen, who died October 2020 from cancer. As such, there are clips in the video that are copyrighted (and not by me). Links to the source videos and material are in the video description and the video is only accessible through the link in the course.

    *Personal “proud” moment was syncing up the music track of “Eruption” to match the video track of a live performance!

  • This Website

    I’m honestly not sure where to start in describing all that has gone into creating this website. Lots of Photoshop. Lots of exploring different WordPress themes before finally deciding to build my own. Eventually. For now, I’m okay with this one.

    Header image: I’ve used this image in multiple places for a good 3-4 years now, so it shouldn’t surprise me that I decided to use it as a focal image and color inspiration for my site. I got it (and the VAST majority of others) from Pixabay and, unfortunately, have long lost the information in order to provide an attribute. Pixabay doesn’t require it, but if I can do it, I’d like to because there are some truly talented people who contribute to that site! The font, Timberline, came from Adobe Fonts. It was a toss-up between it and one called Lamar Pen. I like them both, but my daughter, who has an awesome eye for design herself, said, “Timberline” and I agreed.

    Images on Home page: The flower is a photo I took in the gardens at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Huntsville, Alabama. I’m pleasantly surprised that I like the parallax effect. Normally, I’m not a fan because it makes me dizzy. My only guess is that it’s because I’ve only used it on a portion of the page where most sites seem to use it over the entire page and site.

    Category button images:

    1. Instructional Design base image by Mediamodifier. I added Instructional Design-specific images and text to it.
    2. Graphic Design image by JL G. I added text.
    3. Writing image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images. I added a background, texture, and text.
    4. Music image by Efes Kitap.

    For how brief this post is, I promise there was a lot of time and effort poured into creating this site. Especially after I inadvertently crashed our main site and my darling sys admin/husband had to recreate the database to get it back. Despite that, he helped me find and get this domain and has set up a dev site for me to play with and experiment with creating themes! Yeah, he’s a brave man.

    Disclaimer: If what you see here is different from how the actual site appears, it’s because I made changes and then forgot to update this post to reflect said changes

  • Book Cover Design

    Book Cover Design

    Created cover art for his first book, All Nighter at L&L Pub (I was also a reader/editor). The image he had in his head was something like a pub you might find in The Hobbit and he wanted the title to include the pub’s signage.

    The original image is from Ingo Jakubke on Pixabay (creative commons licensing; the image I’ve uploaded here is smaller/low-res). Using photoshop, I cleaned up various business-related stickers that were in the windows, removed the goldschmiede atelier signage, moved the Nürtinger Keller sign to the doorpost, removed the ornamentation that had been on top of the sign-post and the business’s name, then added L&L Pub. I would have loved to have kept the ornamentation on that signpost, but enough of it was cut out of the picture that including it would have been a challenge.

    According to the photographer, this is in Tuscany, which confused me since the signage is German (though I did find a couple 2007 stories about a German travel company buying a Tuscan village, so… maybe??)

    After the ministry’s name change, the cover was updated again to add the new name, logo, and website.

  • Logo “Refurb”

     

    Logo “Refurb”

    Recreated original logo for Storytelling Apologetics Ministry (now Echoed Calls). The image the author was using was originally done in MS Paint (I know!) and quality had degraded with use. I was able to match all of the original elements, making it almost identical to his original. 

  • Logo Design: Echoed Calls

     

    Original image used for logo
    Original Image “Mountain Hut” – by Felix Mittermeier on Pixabay

    echoedcalls.com

    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).

     

  • 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.

  • 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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  • 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.”

    [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/06/Trapped-in-Love-Spring-2018-Marriage.pdf” title=”Section I: Marriage”]

    1 Cor 13:4-8 with ASCII hearts

    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.”

    [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/06/Trapped-in-Love-Spring-2018-Taylor.pdf” title=”Section II: Parenting”]

    Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart

    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.

    [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/06/Trapped-in-Love-Spring-2018-Grief.pdf” title=”Section III: Loss”]

    One day lasts a month; One month feels like yesterday; Grief is weird that way