We can all use a little bit a lightness and creativity, right?
Day in, day out, many digital marketers and social media professionals rely on tricks to play with our emotions online — to get our attention, to get us engaged or to get us to buy something.
On April Fools’ Day, things are a bit different as the emotional center of our brain gets a break from all these marketing tactics and its rational, thinking part becomes the target.
In higher education, there’s so much creativity that we often get amazing stories out of this day.
So, here’s a compilation of the ones I’ve found the most interesting, funny and creative.
UF-FSU Merger
Big rival schools decide to merge – what could go wrong?
The University of (Harry) Rochester
A sorting hat quiz to find your house, athletics and research at Rochwarts.
Oberlin K-6 College
A great photo essay of non-college-aged college students.
VCU: Tats instead of SATs
A new kind of admissions requirement – personally, I’ll go to the other school as I’m not found of any needles ;-)
Dome-less Augustana College
Who moved their dome?
Retiring UMN Mascot
Family first! Sometimes retiring is the best option — even for Mascots.
Hands-on Learning at UVic in Canada
What did I miss?
Have you noticed any other good ones? Please post a comment with a link so we can check them out!
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Might check out Xavier http://www.xavier.edu/emoji/
Here’s one: http://www.marywood.edu
Take your hand off your mouse and wait a few seconds… effect stops when you mouse the page back (do this multiple times)
@_mhenderson Thanks for the shoutout! We definitely had fun building that one out.
We’ve got something mysterious lurking in the pond water at Roberts Wesleyan college… https://www.roberts.edu/ and Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iCIoyrZ9Mc&feature=youtu.be
We had fun putting together our April Fool’s this year: http://www.andrews.edu
Some great US #HigherEd April Fool’s stories https://t.co/wBxGDEiFFM @karinejoly
Top 2016 Fishy April Fools’ Day #highered Website Homepages & #hesm Stories https://t.co/Vljal4G0JA
We had many believe that UNH was part of the Harry Potter world.
We had many beliveing that UNH was a part of the Harry Potter world. bit.ly/unh-harrypotter
Champlain revamped their website – take a “peep”: http://ow.ly/10lYFy
Park decided to move a Carnegie Library building.
http://www.park.edu/news/2016/04/afd-2016.html
Southern Utah University’s April Fools prank for 2016: https://www.suu.edu/news/2016/04/presidential-proclamation-designates-suu-as-a-national-monument.html