At the start of every semester, we walk around the college with the new web students, pointing out all the places of interest, “college tour” at the start of each semester where you walk around the college, showing students the cafeteria, fire-evacuation points, etc.
We thought this year it might be more fun and memorable to arm ourselves with digital cameras (or Mobile phone cameras), and get out there for a 15 min photo chase!
Here’s our thoughts so far (if you’ve done this before, or you’ve got other ideas, please drop us a comment!):
NOTE: make sure that you ask permission before taking a photo, and explain why you are taking your photo!
Divide into 2 or three teams (4 people each?), and get as many points as you can! Winner takes all:
- 5pts for a friendly librarian with a smile: (15pts if you get a pic of an angry librarian - a very very rare species in our college!)
- 5pts for some ducks that haven’t yet been run over. (Note: Drive slowly around car-park!)
- A place where you can play some sports such as Basketball or Frisbee or Soccer.
- … (bonus points if you manage to use the macro feature of your camera for this photo)
- A security or maintenance person (smiling of course).
- A door that opens to a room where you can get counselling 5pts (Bonus 10pts if you get a pic of Louise our counsellor, Bonus 20pts if you get a pic of Louise’s special bike).
- The place where you have to gather when the fire alarm goes off: 20pts. (Bonus 10pts if your photo demonstrates something that should not be done during an evacuation!)
- 5pts for each of your IT head teachers.
- 10pts for a photo of the door where Judith Cooke, one of your facilitators, hides when she doesn’t want to be found ;).
Special prize for most creative photo, and funniest photo.
Over to you Genie (or anyone else!)
Item 1: 5 more points if you can name 3 services the library offers to students.
Item 4: 3 points if you can identify 2 duties of the security or maintenance person.
Item 5: 1 point for each service that you can name that the counsellor offers to students in the college.
New Item: 5 points for a photo of 2 customer services officer in situ. 3 bonus points for naming 5 duties performed by the customer service officers. [ans: front desk]
New Item: 3 points for a photo of a place where students can make their own coffee and teas. 1 bonus point for a photo of someone actually making a cup of tea [or drinking it] [ans: tea room near the Outreach office where Jude hides.]
New Item: 5 points for a photo of a place where you can get extra help with your studies.
{ans: Learning Centre in the library]
Great! Thanks Genie… sounds like lotsafun!
What a great idea Mike!! I’ll be using this one for sure when I’m asked to do an orientation. Could work in almost any situation… Shame you didn’t load pictures to Flickr with the tag “wentworthTAFEorientation” so those who missed out, can at least catch some of it…
That’s a fabulous idea Michael. Goodonya.
Thansk for the encouragement people - Jude, Genie and I did it as a team effort :).
I was thinking about uploading the images, but most of them were shots of people, and i didn’t want to go around getting people to sign forms… is there an easier way? So I just uploaded a shot of the ducks and the fire-evacuation point instead… they haven’t complained (yet).
Ask for forgiveness, not permission…
Perhaps you could set the pictures to private, and have them viewable only to a Flickr group, which all your students would have to join..
If students had had flickr accounts, I would have had no problem with them uploading their own photos… and learn about copyright/privacy at the same time! problem is (for me at least) i reckon there’s only so much people can take in on their first day…
The private flickr group’s a great idea… will have to try that out for other activities (only where necessary!)
Yep, I guess that’s where other subjects integrating with each other would help. You do the photo chase, at the end of the day you could recomend to the few keen students that if they wanted to do more, then they should pop in for a day or two on my class, and do a few web 2 things as extra curricula activities
“15pts if you get a pic of an angry librarian”??? Hmm… sounds a bit dangerous to me. I can think of plenty of ways to make a librarian angry, even the most mild mannered. How many librarians do you have? At 15 points per angry librarian I reckon I can win this game hands down! :-)
Looks good Michael….I will try and think of more. I am also going to copy this out and cut and paste the items so that we have them for the groups on Monday
Cheers
10 points for a photo of where you can buy lunch. Bonus points [5] for an alternative place to buy lunch.
5 points each for the signs that indicate which block you are in. Bonus points [5] for a photo of the door to your “classrooms””