Friday, October 24, 2014

Project Managing with Posters for Homecoming Week

This past week was homecoming week, and the student council was in charge of the activities and the festivities.  They use a big white board in the student life office to organize their work.  Impressive as the planning as, I couldn't help but smirk at the detailed directions.  

To wit:


(1) When creating the 2 posters detailing the timing of all the activities for the homecoming rally, make sure to check the poster example ... the left column has the event and the right column has how long it takes.  Oh yes, make sure that the poster reads "portrait" rather than "landscape" ... this is indicated by the long (height) and regular width (wide).  Remember, what's written in the brackets: you do not need to include anything else!

(2) For the next poster, pay attention again to the length and regular width indications to ensure that the poster is correctly made.  Again, remember what's written in the brackets to let you know what the poster is for: this is for homecoming dance set-up.  Very important!

(3) Be sure that the homecoming dance banner includes the dance name (Casino Royale, in case anyone forgot!) and be sure that it has cool designs, and good artwork.  Not great artwork, just good, decent, hard-working artwork.  As long as it has cool designs, it'll be good to go.  Oh yes, and look for the * (asterisk) on the example poster to tell you where to place said cool designs/(good) artwork.  By the way, make sure that the poster is really long!  How long?  We don't really know ... just make sure it's really long.

(4) Finally, it better be good because this poster will be seen by everyone and will be at the entrance of the dance!

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