ATARNotes.com at the VCE Expo

[taiga]

Lame discussion is lame

[nacho]

can you guys change it to next year?
More atar notes users = more people accessing resources(exams) = more competitive vce

[jane1234]

can you guys change it to next year?
More atar notes users = more people accessing resources(exams) = more competitive vce

+1 Not really the spirit of AN, but still ....

[ninwa]

Aw you guys are awesome! I think what we'll do now is come up with a rough list of subject areas and see how much of it we can fill. Also we're considering ordering vce notes pens. I'm not entirely keen on wearing a damn vce notes shirt the whole time either >.>

[shinny]

Aw you guys are awesome! I think what we'll do now is come up with a rough list of subject areas and see how much of it we can fill. Also we're considering ordering vce notes pens. I'm not entirely keen on wearing a damn vce notes shirt the whole time either >.>

I'm not coming if I have to wear a shirt Pens sound great though. Much better advertising anyhow.

[taiga]

why are we doing it subject wise? D:

[ninwa]

"Vce notes live @ the expo" so ppl giving advice like they would on the forums

We're also gonna need ppl to just help with manning the stall since I won't be able to make it all 3 days

[m@tty]

How much room are you going to have? and will there be seating or stand the whole time.

And what kind of advice will be able to be given in such a brief time? Will it be like a little token thing like do practice exams blah blah Because people won't exactly be coming in with questions...

Good idea, but I don't know how ready people will be to benefit from it.

[taiga]

Shotgun editting what they say

[m@tty]

Shotgun editting what they say

You can only change it if the topic is one that would come under the science board.

We can have edit wars

[shinny]

Shotgun editting what they say

You can only change it if the topic is one that would come under the science board.

We can have edit wars

Not if the mods ban you from the stall

But I don't think people necessarily need to be ready. Sure, they won't come in with specific questions like 'how do you solve this equation?', but just advice in regards to how to approach a subject and such would be quite popular I would assume. When tutoring, people always ask stuff like 'what are you tips for this subject?' and I assume that same question will be asked to everyone since students generally don't know what else to ask. So really, the volunteers should probably just get a few quick tips up their sleeve to give whenever someone asks that.

[iNerd]

can you guys change it to next year?
More atar notes users = more people accessing resources(exams) = more competitive vce

Re: this.

Someone should keep statistics on the new member influx and see how many people actually stay/contribute because I would predict that the majority will leech resources and leave but of course the whole point is to advertise

[ninwa]

I was picturing everything from general "which practice exams should I prioritise" to specific "I don't know how to balance this equation", and I think that's how we'll advertise it (as much as it's possible to advertise... we're pretty much relying on you guys to spread the word, really. They do give the option to advertise in The Age a few days before but it's several thousand dollars for the cheapest ad -_-)

Not gonna have much room, we're quite a small stall against a wall in the middle of I'd say 30 to 40 other stalls, so I'm thinking we'd get some people to walk around and hand out flyers?

Since it's a small stall I'm imagining any more than 5 people would be a squeeze. They said they'll have chairs on the day. They'd better have enough because fuck if I'm standing around all day

Anyway I just realised list of subjects is a dumb idea (I'm full of them).
So if you're interested in helping out, whether with a specific subject or just general stuff like manning the stall, please post in here

[Mao]

Here's a few ideas, thinking out loud,

-No one will be attempting to 'study' at this expo. Offering live academic advice will be pointless. They want university info, careers and things of that like.

-We need to heavily advertise the ENTER calculator (especially the ENTER calculator, and possibly my SS estimator).

-Our selling point should be how resourceful the community can be, in the sense that we can help out with virtually every secondary-education related issue (and the fact that we have every resource that can be had, but probably should keep that low since all the major exam companies will be there).

-We should definitely have live registrations, and print out a bunch of business cards so they can take their new username and passwords with them.

-Need to sell the idea that we have many tertiary students at prestigious universities. We can offer course selection advice no other service can.

-DEFINITELY make a mailing list of new members. If all goes well, many will register on the day, but few will come back. Need to send them non-intrusive reminders with some kind of incentive to return, such as....
--'community events', like holding a SACs information week on the forums where mods give some insights into upcoming SACs (they are all pretty predictable), maybe run a tutorial of some kind, whatever
--Tertiary information week or something, and we spend a few more minutes answering uni-related questions, w/ever

That's about it from me for the moment. I don't know how well the expo will respond if runners are sent to cover more ground/audience with flyers (possibly against the rules). You probably want to start thinking about decorations now. Also, internet connection on the day.
 

[mystikal]

following on what mao suggested about the tertiary students going prestigious universities we could also highlight the 90+ club of every year on how on average the VN score of the more involved members (since not all people revealed their scores)

Also i would like to make a suggestion about for later on events, i saw this on an another forum about job recruitment and what they had was they invited a guest or 2 from a company to come on the forum for around an hr at certain time to answer specfic questions about the company from users. VN could possibly implement this by having teachers/authors of books/lecturers answering questions on the forum event like "virtual QnA" ask your questions to past accessers on your opinion about certain things...etc.