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Training and Experience Employment While working for the Learning & Academic Resources Department (LAR) as an Instructional Assistant, I learned skills that can be applied to many fields. Being an avid writer and artist prepared me in part for work in the learning center. The combination of writing and art allowed me to not only create the content for my web pages but also to understand the mechanics of multimedia content. Maintaining computers and learning the ins and outs of applications taught me the basics in running a computer lab. The lab eventually developed into a technical assistance center for students known as the Instructional Technology Student Support Center (ITSSC). Teaching workshops on the applications to students, staff and faculty gave me experience in a teaching position. Over the course of several years I have become very adapt at using the Macintosh computer and to a lesser excent IBM-compatible PC's. I have working experience in many of the applications students, staff and faculty of LBCC use on a daily basis. I am well versed in the programs used at work and home plus I have several years experience with web applications. My proficiency includes but is not limited to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe LiveMotion and Adobe InDesign. I have set up and maintained a Mac server at my job and have learned many of the courseware packets that students use from the server. In addition to using the applications I have become very skilled in computer maintinence, repair and upkeep given my job duties. Since working for CLAS and LAR I have had to create and maintain webpages for the department. I discovered through my art and design classes how to create a web site that is not only aesthetically pleasing but is also functional. One of the things I wanted to make sure I addressed was the Section 508 compliancy that all government offices are supposed to adhere to. Section 508, it is better known as the American's With Disabilities Act (ADA). All schools have been working on making classes, labs and course material available for persons with disabilities. ADA compliance also applies to the web so I wanted to make sure that the CLAS site was within federal guidelines. As of January 2002, the CLAS page has been fully ADA compliant. The CLAS page was to my knowledge the first site at Long Beach City College to be fully ADA compliant. With my help the CLAS webpage has also been a showcase for college firsts. The CLAS page was the first webpage to host multimedia (video and audio) content. I helped shoot, edit and produce the first Quicktime and Real Audio clips hosted by any LBCC department page. I learned nonlinear, digital video editing, via iMovie and iMovie 3 on the Macintosh. This in turn allowed me to learn how to create movies for presentations as well as the web. I have applied this video and web experience in my workshops and have helped many instructors and departments all over campus with various video and web projects.
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