Meeting Agenda01

Aug 31st 2009 Monday 1:30pm The three of us had our first meeting today, where we brainstormed and mind-mapped a few possible themes for The Yearbook.

Meeting objectives:
brainstorm
timeline
come up with a theme
possible names
language if bilingual

It's time to spread the word on FB.

Contribution

Sunday Aug 30th 2009 at noon
The three of us along with Reem Al-Hajri, prepared 6 sheets of paper with 6 Sharpies for the seniors contribution part.
The idea is to get the student's feedback and ideas heard and considered since it's all about class 2010. They should have a say in what their yearbook is going to end up looking like.
So, Reem wrote: BRAINTSTORM FOR THE YEARBOOK2010. MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION. (ONLY SENIORS)

The papers as you can see, were posted either in or by the seniors studios, Fashion's, Interior's and Graphic's.

However, nobody wrote a thing on it, and it's been up there for the second day now. How unfortunate!

08:31:09

Yearbook |ˈyi(ə)r boŏk|
Noun
“An annual publication giving current information and listing events or aspects of the previous year, esp. in a particular field: Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.
• A book containing photographs of the senior class in a school or college and details of school activities in the previous year.”

An annual documentary, historical, or memorial publication containing information about the previous year. Yearbooks are usually shelved in the reference collection.
www.lib.iup.edu/instruction/glossary.html

*Our statement, Yearbook Project was a small idea that we wanted to do, from day one we came to VCU Qatar, since we are going to graduate next semester inshallah, we want to leave a legacy to VCU Qatar. It’s for Class 2010 “Fashion, Graphic, and interior departments”. This yearbook will include around 50 student and people who helped us to be what we are now “our beloved professors”. It will include also student’s work and different events. Also, It will show diversity, uniqueness in each student, different cultures, traditions, languages, talents, characters, energies and styles.

We wanted to share with you our yearbook process
here is an example of other students from different university, they started documenting their life at university to create this yearbook and share it with everyone.
http://roxanaart470.blogspot.com/2009/06/synopsis-yearbook-project.html

here some examples for yearbook disasters :(
http://www.ampub.net/design_ideas.htm
analysis, discover why people this usual layout for yearbooks, and with the same techniques over and over again.

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[ Independent Study is a form of education offered by many high schools, colleges, and other educational institutions around the world. It is sometimes referred to as directed study. It is most usually when a student and a professor or teacher agree upon a topic for the student to further research outside of school with loose guidance from the instructor for an agreed upon amount of credits.] Source

[A self-directed learning strategy where the teacher acts as guide or facilitator and the student plays a more active role in designing and managing his or her own learning.] Source

[Independent Study courses are those in which the course content, learning activities, and evaluative criteria are developed primarily by the student. The student should be capable of bearing responsibility for the entire conduct of the study. Independent study is not on par with a traditional class or “directed study”; independent study requires discipline and creativity of the highest order and is conducted by a student independently. The sponsor monitors, assists as possible, evaluates achievement of objectives, and assigns a final grade when objectives are met.

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