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Program
Title: Be
creative! Ideas could include "(Your
Hall) Idol," "Say What Karaoke,"
or "Karaoke Jam." Brainstorm
and come up with a catchy name.
Description:
This is a great program to build community and
bring residents together. It can be extremely
successful early in the year, but is also a
great ongoing program. Simply determine your
format, location and date. You can use several
variations.
- The
"American Idol" version: Get
judges from in the hall or around campus to
judge and eliminate in the style of American
Idol" This could be done in one evening,
or as an ongoing program.
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Say
What Karaoke: Based on the old MTV show,
you can have contestants choose some of
their own music, or you can choose the music
for them. You may also want to provide an
entertaining "wardrobe" for finalists.
*Note, either of
the above choices may require that you have
contestants sign up in advance and bring
their own music.
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Karaoke
Jams: Just have a standard karaoke night.
You can choose whether or not to make it
any type of competition.
Programming
Checklist
(download checklist
in MS Word format  )
Read an article
on successful program planning
Assessment:
- Determine
whether this program is a good fit for the
needs and interests of your residents (this
can be done through informal polling, observation,
or formal surveys). Karaoke is typically a
great program, particularly early in the year.
It is a good community builder that will draw
large numbers.
Preparation:
- Decide
on a date for your event. Talk to your residents
and fellow staff to find out what time/day
would be ideal. Ideally, you should provide
yourself at least 2 weeks for planning and
advertising.
- Determine
a location.
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Locate a KJ (Karaoke Jockey) or a karaoke
machine. Check out the yellow pages under
disc jockey and karaoke, or seach http://yp.yahoo.com
for karaoke. If you use your own machine,
you may want to have people bring their own
CDs, unless you have quite a collection.
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Get prizes. If your budget allows it, get
some prizes. If not, try to get local businesses
to donate prizes.
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Decide on food and drinks. Depending on your
budget, decide what you want to serve as refreshments,
and make plans to go shopping for them.
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Make plans for advertising. Start advertising
as soon as possible, but use several “waves”
of advertising. You may wish to use the sample
flyers included with this program. You may
also want to use a building email list, banners,
door hangers, global voice mail (where available),
and as ALWAYS, word of mouth, the most effective
advertising format.
Implementation
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Arrive early & set up. If you have hired
a KJ, ask him or her to come early and set
up. Make sure food and drinks are purchased
and ready. Do one last wave of “recruitment”
by knocking on doors, etc.
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The “rules” If you are giving away
prizes, introduce your judges. (It may be
funny to have the “American Idol”
format for your judges). Explain what they
will be judged on. Explain how requests will
work (the KJ will probably have a system,
including papers to sign up on, etc). They
probably will have a 1 song request at a time
limit (you can’t make another request
until you’ve been up to sing your previous
request), so that there is opportunity for
everyone to sing.
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Have fun! This is a great program. Enjoy it!
Get some other staff members (or your RD/HD
to get up there! The students will love to
see you out of your role as an RA or administrator.)
Evaluation:
- This
is a program that you may have requests to
repeat. Make sure you provide an opportunity
for formal or informal evaluation/suggestions/recommendations
for next time you do the program. Find out
how they found out about it, what they would
recommend for next time, etc.
Advertising:
Simply
download, edit on your computer, print them
out and copy onto colored paper. It is also
recommended that you use other forms of advertising
such as door hangers, email, and as always,
word of mouth.
Download Flyer 1 MS WORD 
(check
out a larger preview of this flyer)
Flyer
2 MS WORD
(check
out a larger preview of this flyer)
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