Archive for the ‘YouTube’ Category

Higher Ed TV: Blue has no clue where the 2 missing Butler mascot costumes are

September 11th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

No, it’s not another episode of the famous kid show Blue’s Clues, but it could be. Butler Blue 2 is the official and furry mascot of Butler University (as all you sports fans probably know) According to Blue’s blog (yeah, I know, dog blogs aren’t that common, but this puppy even got a greater-than-life statue […]

Need help to host and promote your online videos? Register for “Beyond YouTube,” the Sep 24 webinar presented by Mike Richwalsky from Allegheny College

August 20th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

These past few weeks, I’ve seen many questions around branded YouTube channels (via the non-profit or the partner program) as well as the frustration building up in the higher community around the lack of transparency surrounding YouTube’s decision to decline either status to some institutions. YouTube – Partner Program I’ve been thinking about writing an […]

How to get a branded YouTube channel for your institution in just a few easy steps

June 26th, 2008 Karine Joly 17 Comments

Up until today, the best way to get a branded university YouTube channel was still a mystery for many (including yours truly). Since a few months several institutions (Duke University, UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt, among others) have rolled out branded YouTube channel without the ads displayed on the regular YouTube accounts. However, there were no clear […]

Don’t upload your higher ed video to YouTube (or other video-sharing websites) before doing these 5 simple things

June 6th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Yesterday morning, I spent a couple of hours reviewing the 3 nominated websites for the eduStyle Awards in the “Best Use of Video” category: Boston University, NJIT and University of Notre Dame. I watched all the videos accessible from the 3 websites and even checked out the YouTube channels of these 3 institutions. After spending […]

Higher Ed TV: Caps and Gowns 101 by UCLA Newsroom

June 5th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Commencement season is upon (or behind) us, and this Youtube video produced by UCLA Newsroom is very timely. I got the tip in an email sent by Seth Odell from UCLA Newsroom starting with “Hello higher ed friends” (Geez, and I thought I was special — Next time, how about just “Hi” or “Hello,” so […]

Higher Ed TV: LonelyGirl15 meets Real Nebraska’s David Burge with “That Bauer Girl” from the CT Bauer College of Business

May 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly 3 Comments

It looks like higher ed Youtube videos are really starting to become a genre. This new video series I’m posting about today really reminds me of Real Nebraska – presented by David Burge – with a twist. Here, the host isn’t a bald funny guy (no offense, David), but Veronica, a student whose long brown […]

Celebrate Higher Ed Experts’ first anniversary with the Pick-and-Choose Webinar Series

April 2nd, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

Higher Ed Experts was officially launched on April 23, 2007. It was supposed to go live on April 17, but it just didn’t feel right to do it as scheduled after the tragedy that stroke Virginia Tech. As you can imagine, I had many sleepless nights in April 2007 working on the launch of this […]

Higher Ed TV: How to promote your faculty’s scholarship – and sense of humor – to the YouTube crowd in 1 minute and 51 seconds

March 27th, 2008 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I’m currently wrapping up the presentation about the state of higher education (audio and video) podcasting in the US I’ve been invited to give at the Podcasting for Education Conference to be held next week at The University of Warwick in the UK (and no, I’m not the lucky gal you think I am as […]

Higher Ed TV: Find out more about YouTube plans for higher education with this 50-minute video… available on YouTube

March 18th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

A month ago in a blog post titled “More Colleges Show Interest in Hooking Up With YouTube,” Chronicle Senior Writer Jeffrey Young wondered why it was so difficult for higher ed professionals to get their answers to their questions about YouTube’s higher ed channels on the Campus Wired blog Since we wrote about professors on […]

Need some backup to explain why you can’t afford to ignore Facebook or YouTube?

February 27th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Just forward this article published yesterday in the eMarketer newsletter (but hurry, these are usually only accessible for a limited-time only): “Student Noses Buried in Facebooks”. According to Youth Trends’ February 2008 “Top Ten List Report,” Facebook and YouTube are included in the top 3 picks for favorite websites – ahead of Google – named […]

Higher Ed TV: MIT Tech TV, a YouTube-clone for the Geeks?

January 31st, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

How can you make your students and faculty members share their work and research with the world? Give them the right tools: their own dedicated video-sharing website. That’s what MIT is doing with MIT Tech TV, its own YouTube clone complete with video-sharing capabilities (including email and embedding code) and community-building features such as video […]

Higher Ed Experts Update (1): The registration deadline for the online video webinar series has been postponed to Thursday January 24, 2007 at 8PM ET.

January 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

This morning, I had a couple of emails in my Inbox asking if it was still possible to register for the January 29-31 webinar series about online videos (the initial registration deadline was yesterday). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Thursday (Jan 24) at 8PM ET. If you want […]

Trying to make your case to start an online video initiative at your institution? 70% of young adults have visited video-sharing websites like YouTube

January 14th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Ok, I know, my headlines are horribly long (and as a result so are my post URLS – hint: use tinyurl.com if you want to share a post with coworkers), but I promise there is a reason to this madness ;-) Anyway, I’m a bit late to the party as the survey report I’m writing […]

Is “starting up an online video initiative at your institution” one of your resolutions for 2008? Get help with this 3-webinar series scheduled on January 29-31!

January 9th, 2008 Karine Joly 1 Comment

Long time, no post. So, first let me wish you the best for 2008. As I told you in my Holiday video message (nobody got the guts/time/urge to post a video reply until now, but you can still share your hope for 2008 via a YouTube video if you feel like it), my New Year’s […]

Karine on camera: Happy Holidays!

December 21st, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

So, I’ve decided to drink the video Kool Aid to wish you happy holidays and the best for 2008 as suggested by a couple of readers in the survey (if you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do and you’ll get a chance to win a US $30 gift certificate from Amazon) If you feel […]

Higher Ed TV: The Holiday Card from Eckerd College is back with President Eastman

December 20th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Last year, Eckerd College did a great and funny holiday video card targeted to prospective students and featuring its College President, Admissions and Financial Aid Dean and the Web Team, aka “The Web Dudes:” As Colin Fast from Red River College explained in an interview published in a previous post, Eckerd College’s card was the […]