What Do You Do With the Excited But New Heralds?

[mariedeblois]

At my Building Heraldic Community class at KWHSS, one of the things we talked about was "what do you do with excited but new heralds?" One of the things I recommended was having some low-priority projects that you can give them.  If they complete them, they'll learn more about heraldry and it'll be awesome; if they don't complete them, nobody'll

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[ursule]

Pick your favorite section of the MNA (or the MHA or Modar's website or the kingdom's heraldry website), and check to see whether all the links work. What's your favorite article in this section? Is there anything about the website's organization that you find confusing? If a link is broken, can you figure out where it *should* be pointing, or is the article just gone?

[ursule]

Also, for the artistically inclined, pick any of the ways to use your arms at Coblaith's website, and make one:

http://coblaith.net/Heraldry/50Ways/50Ways.html

Or identify a new way to use heraldry that's not on the list.

I think heralds' wands would be really cool. And my college group had a lot of fun going to one of those "paint your own pottery" places and making heraldic feast gear.

[mariedeblois]

Now that could also be useful! See what happens when I think with the PH brain, not the general herald brain?

[mariedeblois]

Somehow, I think you know where to find some of those ....

[mariedeblois]

I think you overestimate how many PHs actually read LoARs or Cover Letters. Honestly, though, I'd rather have an excited, new herald doing it ... they get to feel useful and engaged and the PH will see them on the list and not forget. ;)

Finding registered but out-of-use things ... good one!

[stitchwhich]

Encourage them to gather their local heralds together someplace that has free wifi, once a month, to do LoI commentary together. You learn a lot. And laugh a lot. And it works even if there are no senior heralds who can be bothered to come.

[mariedeblois]

This can be good and useful, if you've got any competent heralds and don't have pushy, incompetent, myth-informed heralds who want to run it. I'd hesitate to make it a blanket suggestion.

[mariedeblois]

This can be useful if you have a known period text that you can provide them (that you don't mind them losing). Otherwise you need to remain involved enough to make sure that their text is suitable, and that they're tallying it usefully.