Ways in which to take this forward....

T-Shirts are a given, Carry on selling and promoting them. Get orders, and try and get the college interested on making them for particular events that are going on within the college.

The business itself that we have made, as its in the pipeline, we could adapt our business model to make it for us, as those who are leaving as a way of connecting together and staying n contact with each other after we graduate. We could then invite others from work places and industry and students who will be entering industry soon.

This could be a great way to connect our particular industry together and get whats going on in the industry and the companies known to all of the students, instead of companies posing thier news and having to search through all the companies separately it could be a great way to connect them all together.

Promoting the T-Shirts

Print credits have been awarded to us through the college so we are able to print a few. We also plan to put this up on the screens and we have sent it around on Facebook to start promoting it....Poster Design by Fahran

Scheduling.

Original done in shot gun by Marios, Have tried to make it a bit simpler. Names next to the task created, on a time line for how long it took.

Selling T-shirts

Below are pictures of us managing to sell the t-shirts.





Photos taken by Ben Keswick

Feedback from presentation......

The feedback we received today was both positive and negative. Our tutor liked the T-shirt side of things and thought that we perhaps should have concentrated a bit more on this than the designing of the website to the social network we wanted to start up. The T-shirts did seem to take a lot more time than needed, but trying to get the design ok with the branding team was a nightmare.


She said that we should have done some more research into the project as a group within college has been pitching to get this idea up and running already within the college. I did find out about this group, but it was too late to change our idea by that time, therefore combining the ideas would make more sense then giving up all the work we have done.

We are to carry on trying to sell the t-shirts to see if we can try and make more money than we have at this point in time.

Final Designs

Kofi - Final Design for website

Looks cool, just need to add work of Ravensbourne students.
T-shirt design - Big OK from Branding, We are getting this printed
Final design for logo for branding of our product.....

T-Shirts

On the side for the website and social network, in order to be able to fund this project, we have come up with the idea to sell t-shirts.
The design has come from Chris Cladow and they have been printed on a high quality black shirt. They came in different sizes of Small, Medium, Large and X-Large.

We have bought the t-shirts for £5.00 each and intend on selling them for £10.00 each.

So Far we have sold 12 t-shirts and have many more orders that we have taken in the last couple of days.
Originally we did a bulk buy of 20 to see how well they came out in quality and consistency and how popular they are with the students.

What the College has to Offer at the moment…..

What the College has to Offer at the moment…..

The college at current has the Intranet and Moodle.

Moodle allows for:

· Searching Library books and Source material found in the library.

· Student finder – Searching for students by level name and course giving contact details of the student.

· Web mail services. All students have a email address and a way of contacting everyone in college.

· Forums for chat about work, events or just selling equipment.

· Work placement opportunities and job pages, which are updated regularly

· Career and CV guidance

· Lecture notes and materials

· Chat ability with people who are online.

· This year, also has been set up a page to link between the different levels of the course to try and get more collaboration.

Mahara

· Mahara is provided freely as open source software.

· Open source means you can copy, use and modify Mahara provided you apply to the terms and conditions.

Include the source code when distributing Mahara to others;

Not modify or remove the original license and copyrights

Apply this same license to any derivative work.

· The college already has this installed and set up ready to go

· It can be used any time from now, and would be free to set up as its already in place.

· Each student will get 5MB of disc space to use

· Everyone can create Blogs

Create blog posts using a WYSIWYG editor

Attach files to posts

Embed images into postings

Configure whether or not Comments may be received on their blog

Create draft postings for later publishing

· Mahara provides a social networking facility where users can create and maintain a list of Friends within the system.

· Mahara shows Internal portfolios within the college

Opposition in college, trying to set up together at the same time…..

Student web services

They want to provide a month on month Basis – We will offer it for free with the hope of advertising for our money.

They want to provide a “after university” support section for graduated students: as do we, allowing people who have graduated to still be associated with the college. You can use the Enterprise and Innovation centre up to two years after you graduate, why not this, which is online…

They Plan to have different templates to which the customer can choose to personalize.

Progress of what i have done over the past few weeks.

Mahara

Mahara is a blogging platform that the college has already got installed and set up. The Mahara engine is already in place and there is function ability already in place. All that is needed is for portfolios to be uploaded and run it on the platform. Seen as it’s already there, it would cost less money to set up this function within the college.

Mahara is provided freely as Open Source software

In brief, open source means that you are allowed to copy, use and modify Mahara

provided you agree to:

1. Include the source code when distributing Mahara to others;

2. Not modify or remove the original license and copyrights

3. Apply this same license to any derivative work.

an ePortfolio has a much broader scope as an online collection of reflections and digital Artefacts (such as documents, images, blogs, resumés, multimedia, hyperlinks and contact information). Learners and staff can use an ePortfolio to demonstrate their learning, skills and development and record their achievements over time to a selected audience.

5 MB of disk space

Blogs


A comprehensive blogging tool is provided in Mahara, where blogs and blog postings are considered Artefacts and may be added to a View. 
 
The blogging tool allows users to: 


4. Create blog posts using a WYSIWYG editor

5. Attach files to posts

6. Embed images into postings

7. Configure whether or not Comments may be received on their blog

Create draft postings for later publishing

Social Networking


Mahara provides a social networking facility where users can create and maintain a list of Friends within the system. ePortfolio owners choose whether other users can add them to their Friends list automatically or by request and approval. 
An ePortfolio owner's Friends lists shows those Views to which they have been assigned access.

At present a social networking idea is in the pipeline being tested already.

Mahara shows Internal portfolios within the college but not outside the college.

Meeting With Lizzie Jackson

I arranged a meeting with Lizzie Jackson today to talk about what the college had to offer. Keith came along with me.

Lizzie said that they already have open source software called Mahara which we can use as a platform for a social networking website. Its not in current use yet so we could use it to create our idea, and it could be a way of cutting down the cost for running the website.

She also said that the idea for a social networking and portfolio website is something management are interested in and is something they are trying to set up already. A group of people called "the student web services" are planning on pitching there idea on Monday of next week and although they are setting it up, they want to get others involved and on board to carry it on, as like us they do not want to do it all themselves.

Mahara is being tested for its uses. We could also begin tests to see if our website and portfolio webiste would work on the platform or not, and if not then try to adapt our work to fit it. Lizzie has said that the main person to talk to about this would be John White, and she will give us his contact details via Email....
The problem with Mahara to us is that only students within the college would be able to view the work, we ideally wanted to get those from industry to also see what us as students were doing. it could however work for the part of collaborating within the college, i.e matching a sound designer with someone from post production.
To link in the industry the portfolios cannot be made to be public, we would only be able to link with them through other portfolio websites which defeats the object of what we are trying to do.

A last thing to note is that for prospective students who are wanting to come to the college, soon they will submit thier work for thier interview first and it will all be online. This is on an outside network which will allow outsiders to gain access to the college without the use for passwords and user names at such an early stage.

Communication

Its been quite difficult to communicate well within the group due to there being quite a few of us. Although we have tried meeting up in college, not everyone at the same time can always make it. We have a face book group which seems to work well, everyone knows what everyone else is mean to be doing, but a lot of information goes up thier and it can get quite confusing at times. New ideas, questions and progress has been updated daily.

I feel that if there were less of us, things may have got done quicker as everyone would know what has been done and what needed doing. It also hasnt help this unit being in the final term when everyone is trying thier best to get projects finished.