| Program: Picture Board Description: This
is a great way to promote community in your hall, especially early in the year. It
is a bulletin board with all of your residents' pictures, along with their major,
hometown, and interests. You could have them provide the picture, but I suggest
taking them yourself, for consistency, but more importantly, you get to know the residents
as you go around taking their pictures.
What you need:
1) Roster - make a form that residents can fill out at a floor meeting with blanks for
their name, major, hometown and interests. This also serves the purpose of you
finding more out about your residents.
2) Camera and film - in the following week or so, you can go around and get everyone's
picture. Even if your hall doesn't have a budget to compensate you for this, I think
it is worth it!
3) Paper - find a fun way to mount the photos. You can cut them into different
shapes. (I put the pictures on white paper clouds that had the info on them)
Things I learned/Things to consider:
It might take a while to get pictures of all of your residents. (I had almost 50!)
Unlike some bulletin boards, people will look at this one! If you want, you can
recruit help for either taking the pictures or for helping you cut the shapes out. Also,
people might want to "borrow" pictures from your board. Encourage your
floor to really take ownership (as with all aspects of your community) and approach anyone
vandalizing.
Submitted by: Dan O. -
Colorado State University |