Workshops!

[chosehumanity]

Current teachers! Hopeful townies! It's that time of the year again!

It's time for the second summer term, verse the same as the first! Seven weeks of fun, sunshine, and work! Shops.

All teachers and townies currently on the island can submit a workshop to us. It's the same as running a class - coming up with, and posting, a workshop brimming with activities every week -, but with only half the calories (om nom!) of a regular term.

If you're planning to teach a workshop during the second summer session, you can find the form below, and if you need to know dates, the academic calendar is available on fandomhigh's profile page.

All comments will be screened. Questions will be unscreened. Remember: workshops are all about the fun! You don't have to dunk those poor student brains in highly academic mish-mash when the sun is most likely cooking them anyway. Teach them some pottery, performance art, or how to best shape a tinfoil hat to avoid any of that unnecessary brain-boiling. It's summer!

So. Here's the information we need if you're interested!

Character Name:
Workshop Name:
Workshop Synopsis (for public use):
Further Details on Workshop (whatever detail you'd like to include, such as weekly ideas, general concepts, a little more explanation, etc):
Preferred Day (please pick your top 2 choices Monday-Friday):
Anything Else:

As always, this is only for current characters. Apping is already open for anyone who wants to put in that new teacher.

If there are any problems, we'll be in contact to sort those out. Otherwise, no reaction is a good reaction.

Questions, comments, pie? That's how we roll.

The form will need to be in these here comments by Friday, June 19th, 2009.

Comments

[doesnt-vomit.livejournal.com]

I have an actual question this time!

Right now, when we submit workshops, the system seems to be that you hear back if something is wrong, and otherwise you find out your class is okayed when you see the schedule. Which makes sense, but, from here, it means there have been a few times where a character couldn't answer a question about what s/he was teaching because *I* wasn't sure OOCly if their class was okay. It's a minor annoyance, but it's there.

I know emailing everybody just to say "yep, your class is good" is a lot of extra work when it's apps time anyhow -- I'm not asking for that. But I guess what I'm curious about is, when should we assume (and let our characters assume) our classes have been approved, absent evidence to the contrary?

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

In most cases, if you don't hear from us within a few days of posting, your class is good to go. In the past, we've only contacted people if they'd duplicated an earlier submitted class to allow maximum time to change it.

This session, our new goal (prompted by your comment) is to email current/returning teachers to let them know their workshop works for us around at the same time as we send out final decisions on character apps.

Thanks for your comment as it got us thinking and we hope this new method of notification works out better for everyone!