Archive for December, 2008
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Monday, December 15th, 2008Dream job?
Monday, December 15th, 2008Ran across my dream job (I think) at the U of A’s College of Pharmacy last week.
It sounds like many of the IT responsibilities I had in the past – w/ the added focus of web development. I’ve been wanting to get into the development side of things for a long time now. It’s exciting to think that this could be my ‘in’.
If you’re the praying type. Please pray for 1) an interview opportunity, and 2) that I’d accurately represent what I bring to the table in that interview.
The coolest part of Joey’s train set
Sunday, December 14th, 2008We setup Joey’s huge Thomas train set on Grammie & Papa’s dining room table last night. Each year around Christmas time, they usually setup a slot car track. They changed it up this year. Joey begged to go back again tonight to play w/ it. Here’s part of the reason:
I wish the quality was a little better. I only had my phone w/ me.
Communion at the gat
Thursday, December 11th, 2008As a gathering ministry team member I got to do many media projects. Most of them were the tossaways that were created each week and a lot of them were song slide decks. Every once in a while, a need for a slide deck would come up that wasn’t a song. I guess, with their rarity, I enjoyed them a bit more.
This one was one of my favorites.
From what I remember, we were going to be doing a lengthier version of the communion ritual one sunday night and the team wanted some art to be displayed on-screen that would urge people to pay a little more attention to what was being said, sung, and proposed.
I was aiming for an older style of lo-fi line art w/ low-impact text intrusions and I think I pulled it off. I was really satisfied with this one. I don’t know if the slide deck itself led anyone to a deeper encounter or anything, but I like to think that it played its role.
Casas Student Ministries (2003)
Thursday, December 11th, 2008A while back, I was asked by the youth minister at Casas to put together a website that would reflect the identity of their program and showcase what they offer youth and parents.
I came through the youth program at Casas long ago and it excited me to give them a presence on the web that’d be consulted by youth and parents to stay up-to-date on the high school and middle school programs. What was unique about this project was creating the site in a way that would allow one of the staff workers, Kara, to post content updates using Macromedia’s Contribute software. I created the site using Macromedia’s Fireworks and Dreamweaver products. Dreamweaver let me build-in sections of pages that were tagged as editable by Contribute software – provided the user had the right authenication. The system worked really well and we enjoyed sharing the process of keeping the site updated.
I was really pleased w/ the look of the site. I think it had a relevant feel for the youth that would visit and I was told that the information was easily retrievable by parents and staff workers.
