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I am creating a new Portfolio Development course at a two-year college for the Fall semester, during a 16-week semester with weekly courses, having a Thanksgiving Break in Week 14, and a college-wide graduation ceremony on the final day of the course (Week 16). So, there are only 14 class meetings. Most meetings will be one-on-one with students, hourly group appointment times so that students do not have to wait for their turn during the entire class period (though they are free to work in lab the entire scheduled time, even encouraged to take advantage of the computer equipment and software!). Every few weeks, the class meets as a whole to discuss common topics: resume basics, website building, interview strategies (later in the semester), and networking possibilities, especially in the local community. Resumes are written as a draft then a revision. Students should select a portfolio website platform (ArtStation.com, Behance.com, etc) early on to begin placing portfolio pieces as they complete them. Portfolio building begins with evaluating the current work and deciding if a piece can be placed immediately, if the piece needs work, if the a piece is unworthy, and if there are any new pieces that need to be created to show a skill or interest not currently demonstrate. Students should comfortably have 6-10 pieces by the end. There is a Guest Speaker Series Portfolio Review at the end of the semester on another evening, where Portfolio students are favored to present their work (but it is not a job interview). Please propose a schedule, including entire class meetings for Weeks 1, 6, 10, and 15, and individual meetings by group times the other weeks. Students should Apple for Graduation on the Collin.edu website by Week 4.
I have two sample documents to show the previous schedule and grade scale. But, I am looking for a more current approach for the common topics, with a in-depth analysis of resumes, networking, and careen navigation.
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Which day does this section meet, so I can put real Fall 2026 dates on the schedule?Friday (as before)
What should I deliver?Schedule + topic content (Recommended), Updated grade sheet
Is the demo reel still a required deliverable?Keep it, but reframed
File format for the output?Markdown (.md)
# Progress
1 Confirm Collin College Fall 2026 calendar dates
2 Research current resume, networking, and career navigation practice
3 Build the 14-meeting schedule
4 Write in-depth session plans for the four full-class meetings
5 Revise the 100-point grade sheet
6 Verify dates, math, and links
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Fridays confirmed against the Collin 2026–27 calendar: Aug 28 → Dec 11, Week 14 (Nov 27) inside the Nov 25–29 closure, Week 16 (Dec 11) is Fall Commencement. Fourteen meetings.
The four full-class sessions carry one argument in sequence rather than four unrelated topics — **Locate** (Wk 1: market map, portfolio triage, platform choice), **Be read** (Wk 6: resume), **Be found** (Wk 10: website, showcase piece, networking), **Be chosen** (Wk 15: final presentations, interviews, career navigation). The other ten weeks are A–D group hours on a rotating order so nobody is permanently last.
Two calendar items you'll want in bold on the syllabus: Week 4 (Sep 18) is the Plano Balloon Festival 3 p.m. close, and Week 10 (Oct 30) is the last day to withdraw — which happens to be a full-class day, so it's the natural moment for a private word with anyone drifting.
The grade sheet still totals 100 + 5 extra credit on your existing A–F scale. Attendance drops 15 → 10, "social media accounts" becomes a Professional Identity Kit, demo reel becomes a track-flexible Showcase Piece, and two new deliverables appear: a Networking Log and a 90-Day Plan. Community Involvement moved to extra credit — required, it penalizes the students with the least schedule slack. A change table at the end explains each swap.
Five open questions at the bottom, mainly block length and the Guest Speaker Series date. The Week 13 timed dry run is placed so students are event-ready from Nov 20 regardless of which evening the department picks.
Sources: [Collin 2026–27 Academic Calendar](https://www.collin.edu/calendars/pdfs/2026-2027-academic-calendar.pdf) · [IGDA Dallas](https://igda.org/chapters/us-tx-dallas/) · [Industry Giants](https://industrygiants.org/) · [Skillsearch portfolio platforms](https://www.skillsearch.com/news/item/portfolio-platforms) · [ATS Resume Guide 2026](https://mypersonalrecruiter.com/ats-resume-what-applicant-tracking-systems-actually-look-for-in-2026/)
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The course in on Frisco Campus, so our campus is not closed for the Plano Balloon Festival on Sep 18. I will handle meeting group assignments with Canvas groups, and students generally want to have a consistent time each week to meet, instead of a rotating schedule. We do not yet know the date of the Guest Speaker Portfolio Review, however there will be September, October, and November Guest Speakers either on Frisco or Wylie campuses, with the Portfolio Review Guest Speakers in December, likely at Wylie. Everything else looks great. Can we generate Canvas pages for each assignment, Weekly pages, and a glossary of terms, perhaps a community and local company (game, animation, simulation) list?
```
----
How should the Canvas pages be delivered?Markdown files
How granular should the assignment pages be?One page per graded item (Recommended)
What should the local company / community list cover?DFW game studios, Animation, motion & VFX shops, Simulation, XR & viz, Orgs, events & meetups
# Progress
Confirm Collin College Fall 2026 calendar dates
Research current resume, networking, and career navigation practice
Build the 14-meeting schedule
Write in-depth session plans for the four full-class meetings
Revise the 100-point grade sheet
Verify dates, math, and links
7 Updating the master schedule
Research DFW studios, shops, sim/XR employers, and orgs
9 Write 14 assignment pages
10 Write 14 weekly pages
11 Write the glossary
12 Write the DFW community and company list
13 Verify company list and cross-check all pages
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37 markdown pages in `canvas/`, plus the updated schedule. The five above are the entry points; the rest are in `canvas/weekly/` (16) and `canvas/assignments/` (17).
**Your three changes are in.** Frisco runs a normal Week 4 — the Balloon Festival note is now just a calendar footnote. Groups are fixed A–D with a self-signup setup and a standing swap rule (post in a discussion, attend another hour, no permission needed) so you're not adjudicating exceptions all semester. And the Guest Speaker Series is now load-bearing: three fall talks across Frisco and Wylie made attending _one_ reasonable to require, so it folded into the Networking Log, and Community Involvement extra credit now points at presenting at the December review.
**On the DFW list** — that's the file to look at first. It names roughly 40 companies across games, animation/motion/VFX, simulation & XR, arch viz, medical, and LBE, but the top of the page is a warning that it's leads to verify, not facts to cite. Several entries are small studios that could have changed since I checked. The section I'd most want your eye on is Simulation/XR/Viz — I've argued fairly hard that it's the realistic path for a Frisco two-year graduate, and pointed out that Lockheed, Bell, L3Harris and RTX post these jobs under titles like "visualization specialist" that students never search for.
The glossary runs ~120 terms in six groups, including the money and employment vocabulary (net-30, kill fee, at-will, rate floor, runway) that nobody teaches art students.
Everything cross-checks: all Friday dates verified against the 2026 calendar, both grade tables sum to 100, and every assignment page's due date matches the schedule.
Two things worth a decision: the pages are written in a fairly blunt voice — on sunk cost, inflated credit, and the state of the market — so tell me if you'd like it softened. And `00_START_HERE.md` has a setup checklist assuming a four-hour block; the groups are labeled A–D so you can rename them to real clock times.
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I'd like to add the Society of Play, formerly Dallas Society of Play, to the Organization list. I can do it manually, but I'd like to see what you find and have it part of your knowledge for our conversation.
There is also the Tech Artists Meetup with Nelson Lim at UT Dallas
```
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Nelson Lim on LinkedIn: #utd #atec #jobs #vfxeducation #gamedev
www.linkedin.com
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Nelson Lim on LinkedIn: Freya Holmér - YouTube
www.linkedin.com
](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nelsonlim_freya-holm%C3%A9r-activity-7154578950248120321-r9sU)[
Nelson Lim on LinkedIn: ATEC Houdini Student Reel
www.linkedin.com
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Tech Arts Meetup – University of Texas at Dallas
www.tickettailor.com
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Tech Arts Meetup - Nelson Lim
www.nelsonlim.com
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Home Page - Nelson Lim
www.nelsonlim.com
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Bachelor of Computing - Communications and Media (Honours)
profiles.utdallas.edu
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**Society of Play** — formerly Dallas Society of Play, and the old name still lingers on their domain (`dallassocietyofplay.org`) and GitHub org (DSOP). A 501(c) non-profit, roughly ten years running, based in North Dallas. Twice-monthly meetups plus game jams, indie tournaments, and mini-conventions; the programming is talks, postmortems, tutorials, and workshops. Their own framing is "professionals, hobbyists, and students… for everyone everywhere," with a published code of conduct and an active Discord.
The detail I'd flag for your purposes: **the touring arcade cabinet.** Members' indie games go on a physical cab that travels to festivals, art openings, and conventions. Free to submit, nobody profits. That's a rare, concrete answer to the problem in the networking session — students believe they have nothing to trade, so they only ever ask. Submitting a game and helping run the cab for a day puts a student next to organizers with an actual job to do. I've written it in as exactly that.
I've also positioned Society of Play as the _lowest-anxiety first event_ on the list, ahead of IGDA, for the students who'd otherwise go nowhere.
**Tech Arts Meetup (TAM)** — founded by **Nelson Lim**, Professor of VFX and Games at UT Dallas ATEC; 15+ years in CG including ILM; Visual Effects Society board manager and SideFX Houdini Academy advisor. Third Thursday of each month, free, DFW. Riggers, simulation artists, shader artists, pipeline developers — and explicitly "tech artists in-the-making." Recurring topics: Houdini, Maya, Python, Unreal, Unity, simulation, scripting, shading. Site is `nelsonlim.com/tam`, registration through Ticket Tailor.
This one lands harder than a generic meetup entry, because tech art is the one discipline I flagged as consistently in-demand and under-supplied — and TAM is a standing monthly door into it that requires no UTD enrollment. I've noted in the master doc to flag it specifically to any student showing scripting or pipeline instincts.
One caveat: `nelsonlim.com/tam` wouldn't load when I tried to fetch it, so the third-Thursday cadence and topic list come from search results rather than the page itself. Worth a look before the semester in case the schedule has shifted.
Sources: [Society of Play](https://dallassocietyofplay.org/) · [Society of Play on Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/dallas-society-of-play/) · [Tech Arts Meetup](https://www.nelsonlim.com/tam/) · [Nelson Lim, UT Dallas](https://profiles.utdallas.edu/nelson.lim)
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A Bunch of Short Guys, who produce Industry Giants, also Industry Insights events that are announced through Humantix and their Facebook group. Are you able to find the Industry Insights events and the abunchofshortguys.org group? or https://www.facebook.com/abunchofshortguys/ ?
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Industry Insights - October
events.humanitix.com
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Industry Insight - Career Series
events.humanitix.com
](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-insight-career)[
Industry Insights - March_
events.humanitix.com
](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-insights-march_)[
Industry Insights - April_
events.humanitix.com
](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-insights-april_)[
Industry Insights - May
events.humanitix.com
](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-insights-may2026-gk5g2pw8)[
Industry Giants 2026
events.humanitix.com
](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-giants-2026)[
Industry Circle - July 12th
events.humanitix.com
](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-circle-july-l863sgtw)[
Contact | Industry Insights - February
events.humanitix.com
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Contact | Industry Insights - April_
events.humanitix.com
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A Bunch of Short Guys | Humanitix
events.humanitix.com
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**Industry Giants 2026 is Saturday, October 3, 9 a.m.–6 p.m., at the Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building, UT Dallas.** That is the day after Week 6 — the resume and professional-identity session. Students learn the 20-second introduction, the informational ask, and the follow-up note on Friday afternoon, then walk into a 400-person room with live portfolio reviews about eighteen hours later. I've restructured around it: Week 5 tells them to buy tickets, Week 6 Block E becomes explicit prep with the introduction drill pulled forward from Week 10, and Week 7 opens with a debrief so the notes and follow-ups don't evaporate.
Two logistics worth handling in September. Tickets are on Humanitix and step up in price — early-bird GA was $50 through July 30. And **students must register with a `.edu` address or the ticket may be rejected.** The listing says UTD routes student discount codes through faculty, and Collin College is already a listed ABOSG sponsor, so I've added a checklist item to ask them whether a Collin block or code exists, with the answer posted by Week 5.
**Industry Insights** turned out to be more useful than I expected — it's the free monthly Saturday series, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., usually Dallas College Brookhaven Room H-125, occasionally Collin Plano (C-104 for a concept art session with Omar Siddiqui and James Wintle). Recent speakers include Tony Tyler, Director of Pipeline at DreamWorks Animation, and 900 lbs of Creative walking through a touring educational micro-game installation — which is a nice loop, since 900 lbs is already on the industry map.
That free-Saturday-daytime shape solved a problem I'd flagged earlier. The required event was "one fall Guest Speaker session," which quietly assumes a student can make a weeknight drive to Wylie. It's now **one qualifying event** from a named slate — Guest Speaker Series, Industry Insights, Society of Play, Tech Arts Meetup, IGDA Dallas — all free. Industry Giants counts too but is never the required path, since requiring a ticketed event taxes exactly the students this course should work hardest for.
Also confirmed: ABOSG is a Dallas non-profit **animation guild**, short domain `abosg.org`, sponsors include Collin College, Reel FX, Explosm, Texas Film Commission, Women in Film Dallas.
One honest limitation — I did not retrieve the Facebook group itself; Facebook content isn't accessible to me. I confirmed the URL from ABOSG's Humanitix host profile. Their Humanitix host page is the better channel anyway, since you can follow it for automatic alerts, which I've added to the setup checklist.
Sources: [Industry Giants 2026](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-giants-2026) · [ABOSG on Humanitix](https://events.humanitix.com/host/a-bunch-of-short-guys) · [abunchofshortguys.org](https://abunchofshortguys.org/) · [Industry Insights – May](https://events.humanitix.com/industry-insights-may2026-gk5g2pw8)
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