Prof. Amy Lupin

The deadline for Museum Curators has been extended to 15 March.

Solved by: Kaylee Oatsong River Fenwick

Your museum has largely been a success since opening its doors to the public. However, you've had some feedback from visitors that have made you rethink certain aspects of your museum's overall experience. For this task, we'd like you to come up with one aspect of your museum that could be improved. Then explain how you would go about Improving this. Your response should be 100 words or more. Post your improvements below by 15th March at 23:59 HOL-time to earn 10 rubies.

Museum gift shops are an extension of the museum. The items sold can allow visitors to dive deeper into certain topics, share their enjoyment of the museum with others and have something to remember the museum by, Create a gift shop item for your chosen museum. You can either do this as a graphic (in which case please keep it to 600x600 pixels or less and upload to an image sharing site like Postimg) or describe it in 80 words or more. Post your items below by 15th March at 23:59 HOL-time to earn 10 rubies.

Consideration needs to go into how exhibits get displayed, both generally and in relation to each other. You've been tasked with ensuring there is only one star exhibit in each area of the museum. This is partly to maintain interest amongst visitors and partly to even out foot traffic around the various exhibits. There are 8 areas in which to place the exhibits. There can only be one exhibit per area. There can also only be one exhibit per row and one per column. They cannot be diagonally adjacent. Feel free to use any shape to represent the exhibit. To earn 10 rubies, send your solution to me over Gryff private messaging by the 15th of March at 23:59 HOL-time.

Before you can plan each exhibition, you'll need to give some thought to how different types of exhibits should be categorised. Choose 10 exhibits and sort them into 3-5 categories. The categories should describe the type of exhibit, rather than the themes they might fit into. Share the list of categories and your reasoning behind these categories in 100 words or more. Post your classifications below by 15th March at 23:59 HOL-time to earn 10 rubies.

Museums are often an enriching experience: they give visitors an opportunity to learn about a particular topic. However, museums wouldn't have the same impact without curators carefully making decisions behind the scenes, such as what to show and how to present it. This is where you come in. Over the next 4 weeks, you'll be curating your own museum. Your museum can be just about anything (real or fictional), but it needs to be HOL-appropriate ie. for an all ages audience. Please avoid political, heavy or horror-related themes. Each week will have 3 tasks, which will be a mix of creative (written or graphics) tasks, puzzles and problem-solving tasks. There will also be a discussion prompt each week. Creative tasks will be open-ended, however your submissions should tie in with your chosen museum. For example, if you choose to curate museum relating to unicorns, all of your responses should relate to unicorns in some way. Each task and discussion is worth 10 rubies, for a total of 160 rubies. Please note: any rubies earned will only count for the Spring Term, not the Autumn Term. All tasks are due on 1 March at 23:59 PM and can be completed in any order. Timeline 1 February: Activity starts and the first discussion prompt and 3 tasks are posted 8 February: Next discussion prompt and 3 tasks are posted 15 February: Next discussion prompt and 3 tasks are posted 27 February - 1 March: Final discussion prompt and 3 tasks are posted 15 March: All tasks and discussion responses due

Sites of Historical Sorcery shares fascinating details of places in the wizarding world that have historical significance. Task 1: Task 2: Task 3:

The Ministry's newly established tourism department has tasked you with boosting visitor numbers to one of the sites of historical sorcery. After some brainstorming, you decide an informational brochure would be a good approach. Design a brochure that includes the name of the site, its significance and at least two other details. Your brochure should be no more than 600 x 600 pixels maximum please. Alternatively, you may describe your brochures in 80 words minimum. Post your brochures below by 23:59 HOL time on 31 January to earn 10 rubies.

Not much is known about the author, but fortunately that's where the foreword for the book comes in. Write an extract in 80 words minimum explaining what makes the author an authority on the subject. Post your forewords below by 23:59 HOL time on 31 January to earn 10 rubies.

A belated Happy Birthday! Hope you had a magical day!

This month we’re taking a deep dive into all things Mermish and Merpeople. We’ll be covering “Merpeople: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Language and Customs”. Written by Dylan Marwood, this book is a great resource for budding anthropologists and linguists alike. Task 1: Task 2: Task 3:

Inspired by your recent adventure, you decide to write an excerpt on Mermish linguistics. Your current focus is on morphology, which explores how words are structured and how they can be broken into smaller units of meaning. Before you can start writing the excerpt, you decide to make a handy reference sheet with some Mermish root words and the affixes (prefixes, suffixes, infixes and/or circumfixes) that change their meaning. In order to reach a wider audience, you decide to transliterate these using Latin characters, rather than using Mermish symbols. You choose to use the following format: Explorations ( <English translation> ): “explore" is the root word meaning "to investigate, examine, study or discover" “-ation" means "process or result" “-s” means plural For this task, we’d like you to come up with 3 different Mermish root words and 5 different affixes and present them in a similar way to the above example. Post your reference sheets below by 23:59 HOL time on 31 October to earn 10 rubies.

While conducting fieldwork, you notice signs and symbols marked on various buildings and structures underwater. Intrigued by this, you ask one of Merpeople you’ve gotten to know to explain what these mean. You carefully document these signs and symbols and their associated meanings. For this task, we’d like you to create a graphic of 3 different symbols and tell us what they represent. Alternatively, you can describe the symbols in and tell us what they represent in 80 words minimum Post your symbols below by 23:59 HOL time on 31 October to earn 10 rubies.

After brushing up on the basics, you have the rare opportunity to do some fieldwork. Thanks to Gillyweed and a few other useful tricks, you manage to observe Merpeople for some time. You find their customs especially fascinating. Share details about a custom Merpeople have in 100 words words minimum. Post your customs below by 23:59 HOL-time on 31 October to earn 10 rubies.