Fandom Advent - Week Two!

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It's still time for the holidays in Fandom, and that means some communal weirdness for the rest of the week! Here's your Fandom advent events for the coming days:

Tuesday, December 7th - Everyone wakes up with a Santa hat on. Take it off? There's another Santa hat.
Wednesday, December 8th - Eggnog - or cocoa, if you're in the dorms - flows from the taps. Hope you didn't need that shower this morning!
Thursday, December 9th - Every screen will only display the Yule Log.
Friday, December 10th - Pushy mistletoe floats around the ceilings of Fandom. Are you speaking to another sentient being? Be prepared for the mistletoe to try and bully you into kissing them.
Saturday, December 11th - The pond freezes over and penguins perform nice dancing and singing routines all day.
Sunday, December 12th - All the NPC rickshaws are decorated with lights and garlands in a very over-the-top way.
Monday, December 13th - The island is invaded by adorable chickens in capes.

Spring 2022 Class Submissions

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This time in the right comm. It has been a VERY LONG MONTH.

Yes, I know it's only been 6 days.

It's time for class ideas, folks!

It's time for teachers to come up with new classes! Or old classes with a shiny new title!

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) a current townie who has previously taught classes, b) a townie who has never taught before but would like to now, or c) an alum/expat who would be returning to the island to teach, YAY. You, as of the October 2015 policy changes, just need to drop us a line (at fandomhighadmins@iambicnut.com) to let us know you're coming back, then mosey on down to fill out the class proposal!
  
  If you are a current teacher wanting to move to townie status, also drop us a line and don't worry about filling out the class proposal part. Obviously.


• New teacher characters should fill out the regular application 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 17 weeks worth of classes (16 + 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
[b]Character Name:[/b] [b]Class Name:[/b] [b]Fandom High School or Community Center class? (FH or CC):[/b] [b]Class Synopsis (for public use in FH class sign-ups/CC class information):[/b] [b]Further Details on the Class(A description including any ideas you have for individual classes so far. If this is a community center class, let us know if it will be an AM or PM class.):[/b] [b]Preferred Days (2):[/b] [b]Anything Else?[/b]

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 Sunday, December 12th for great scheduling justice!

Big Sibs!

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Hey everyone look, it's your definitely-up-in-a-timely-manner post looking for...

Big Siblings

New students need old volunteers to help them get settled in, right? Right. So, 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' 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 have USB hands, which would be kind of awesome, actually.

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.

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 semester (for the record, newbies arrive Sunday, January 2nd).

You're genuinely willing to help. This game is less big than it used to be, but there's still A Lot. 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 or teacher 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, Sunday December 19th if you're interested!

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