Classes for Summer Session 1!

[bigdamnprincipal]

With applications open, it's time for current teachers to let us know what they'd like to teach during the first summer session!

Do YOU Need This Form?

• If you are a current teacher and would like to continue teaching, just read the next sections and fill out the form below.
  
• If you are a current townie and would like to teach a community center class, just read the next sections and fill out the form below.
  
• If you are a current teacher wanting to move to townie status OR a current townie wanting to teach a student class, go here.
  
• New teacher characters should fill out the regular application form and ignore this post entirely.

What If I Want To Teach Adults At The Community Center?

Community center classes, much like FH classes, can be whatever the teacher wants them to be. If you want to teach a craft or life skill, or hold weekly lectures on why your character is the most awesome ever, that is your choice. The key is getting other players (and their characters) interested enough to show up each week. The difference between community center classes and FH classes is that while we would require someone teaching a course as their job to post weekly, there is no requirement for a class to show up.

Any adult can teach a community center course just for fun, too, in addition to their regular job. Again, just fill out the form here and let us know so we can put it on a little schedule, so players can know in advance that there will be a class available in which to participate.

What's Needed For A Workshop?

• The ability to come up with 7 weeks worth of workshops (6 + 1 exam).
  
• The ability to post each workshop by noon Pacific or 3pm Eastern the day it's scheduled (you can also post the night before).
  
• The ability to interact with your students (slow play is fine, you don't need to be around all the time).

( Behold: The Form )

Remember, not hearing from us right away is good - we will e-mail current/returning teachers to let them know their workshop works for us around the same time we send out final decisions on character applications.

Your teacher character's form will need to be in these comments by Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:59pm Eastern for great scheduling justice.

Some Feedback on the How's My Driving Meme - From You

[thatsamilkshake]

Hiya, folks. We're working on the round-up for the Open Forum two weeks ago and hope to have that completed soon, but since one of the big issues was the How's My Driving meme and how it's run, we'd like to get some feedback from the players on that score before we come to a conclusion and present that as part of the round-up.

We do agree that the current setup is causing bad experiences for some players, and we want to avoid that, but we're also not comfortable as admins with intervening in discussions between adults when no one in (or even outside) of the discussion has asked us to intervene. The issue isn't, never has been, and never will be, that we aren't watching what's going on. It's that no two people's opinions are the same on what constitutes an unpleasant or "over the line" situation; if players are continuing to participate in a conversation, we have to assume they're doing it voluntarily, unless someone tells us otherwise.

The exception to that situation is one that unfortunately came up during the last HMD, where a player who hadn't signed up for crit was being discussed in the context of interactions with another player's character. While we don't want to stifle discussion, if we continue with official HMD memes, we are going to ask from the start that discussion on the official meme only concern players who've signed their characters up there.

Here's where we come to the feedback part: there are a couple of alternatives for how we might run the HMD if it remains official. There's also the option of discontinuing it and leaving crit to personal HMD posts, e-mail, and unofficial memes hosted off-game. Before we come to a conclusion on what we think would work best for the game, we'd like to get some general feedback from the players by way of a poll here, in the comments so that everything stays screened and people can offer opinions freely.

HMD Options

1. Continue to have official HMD memes with anon commenting available; only players who've signed up on the meme may be discussed on the meme. Admins will intervene if someone feels a thread is getting out of hand and requests help, or if game/LJ rules are being broken.

2. Continue to have official HMD memes, but only non-anon; only players who've signed up on the meme may be discussed on the meme. Admins will intervene if someone feels a thread is getting out of hand and requests help, or if game/LJ rules are being broken.

3. Discontinue the official HMD memes; if a player wishes to post their own meme in a non-game journal, that's fine, with the understanding that this is not admin-run or moderated.

4. I have another idea, which I'll tell you in the comments!

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You can just respond with just a number if you'd like, or go into any detail you care to; comments are also open for any additional thoughts on the HMD process that you'd like to share with the admin team.