Summer Session I Workshops!!

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And before we kick off the BDE, how about some OCD for next semester?

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 recent grad and would like to teach a summer workshop, please ping in here and then 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 Class?

• The ability to come up with 7 weeks worth of classes (6 + 1 exam).


• The ability to post each class 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).

( 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 Wednesday, April 25th by 11:59pm Pacific for great scheduling justice.

Graduation Logistics!

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Graduation is on the horizon -- woe -- so it's time to get some logistics taken care of!

NPC Guests
Guest NPCs can have their own journals, just like Parents Weekend, that need to be signed up here. Whether your character knows their NPC guests are coming is, of course, totally up to you and your level of eviltude, but we need to know by Wednesday, April 25th. There's no limit on number of guests. We expect people will app what they think they can handle playing with over the course of the weekend.

Please provide us with the following information for each NPC guest; comments are screened. ( Now with more scissors! )

Again, NPC guests are only for seniors. Other students are more than welcome to attend the graduation ceremony in support of their friends, but they can't bring their own NPCs.

Alumni and Expatriates
All alumni and expats are welcome to show up and don't need to be signed up here or specifically invited by a senior. They also don't have to count this towards their monthly 5 days of island visitation. All guests -- NPC and alum/expat -- are welcome to visit campus but need to sleep in town. The Arms Hotel will be open and usually has a post for requesting rooms up ahead of time. Guests can start arriving the evening of Thursday, April 26th, and need to leave the island by Monday, April 30th.

Valedictorian
Since it worked out quite well the last few years, we're sticking with the same method of choosing a valedictorian (and possibly a salutatorian as well): we're asking interested seniors to submit a brief in-character essay (up to 3 paragraphs) on why they should be considered for the job.

Keep in mind that the valedictorian will be expected to make a speech at graduation. All essays need to be submitted as a screened comment here, also due by next Wednesday, April 25th. If you have any questions, leave them here as well, and they'll be unscreened!

BIG SIBLINGS! We're looking for some!

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Big Sibling Program

New students need old volunteers to help them get settled in, right? Right. We need IC student volunteers to pair up with incoming students and help them adjust to Fandom's little quirks. (And by 'little quirks' we clearly mean 'their fellow students turning into monsters' 'sometimes the entire universe disappears' and so forth.) The idea behind this pairing is for the new student to have at least one person they can go to if they're not settling in too well and to ask questions and generally get answers that don't suck. OOCly-speaking, the big sibling's player should be available to help out the little sibling's player. Sometimes minimal help is needed as the little sibling will be a current player (or super duper fast at getting into the flow of FH) but if the player is new, you will act as their liaison and mentor while they get settled into the game. You need to be available OOCly to answer their questions, guide them in the right direction while they get used to the game, and hold their hand so they're not overwhelmed. Not literally, unless you expect to, like, stick your hand straight through the screen or something.

Buddy System

This is the teacher version of the big sibling program. The idea is that you currently play a teacher or administrator, and your character is willing to show a new teacher/faculty member the ropes of living and teaching in Fandom. ICly your character will be there to answer any questions and take the poor teacher drinking after their first week (knowing these classes, the students might need it more). OOCly, if the player is new (or new to teaching) then you'll be on hand to provide answers to their questions, help them out and generally guide them while they get used to the game and/or RP teaching.

What we need from you

Please volunteer if you fit the following:

• Your character won't be antagonistic about helping out someone (ICly, your character can be signed up against their will, but, please don't sign up if they're not going to be helpful to a new student or teacher)
  
  
• You have the time to field questions from a newbie, and your character will be around consistently for the first few weeks of the winter semester (for the record, newbies arrive Saturday, May 5th)
  
  
• You're genuinely willing to help. This game is big. It can be intimidating at first. Having someone who's a friendly face in the crowd helps new players out a heck of a lot, but being assigned to someone who disappears or isn't willing to help takes a lot of the fun out of starting up.
  

So, after reading all that, if you think you're up to the job and you think your character will be helpful to a new student character, use the OCD threads below to sign up for the appropriate job! Please sign up in the appropriate thread of this post by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday, April 25th if you're interested!

As always, if you have any questions you don't want to ask in the post, please contact the admins via administration@fandomhigh.net and we'll get back to you as speedily as possible!