I just came across this on a mailing list I’m on: YouTube/edu is a site for “videos and channels from our university and college partners.” Of course, many institutions are represented here, but EMU is not on it. Yet.
Perhaps someone “official” who reads EMUTalk.org can get the place signed up?
There is talk in the Marketing department on campus of getting content on there, but too many politics have gotten in the way of this.
That there would be politics and anxieties about all this doesn’t surprise me at all. I remember a number of years ago, a request I had for some Flip Video cameras was considered “controversial” because one of the reasons I wanted them was so students could put videos up on YouTube. Scandalous! Not academic! Not serious!
Of course, now the scandalous/non-academic/non-serious institutions that have systematic YouTube presences include Dartmouth, Stanford, MIT, Purdue, Harvard, etc.
Who knows? Maybe, kind of like with iTunes U, EMU will decide it’s a good idea after it’s no longer that interesting….
Check this out. EMU students with flashing fingers on You Tube.
I found out about this at the Undergrad Symposium on Friday.
Heh. Flashing fingers.
Here’s the link Dick is talking about, btw.
EMU athletics has had their own youtube page for some time now: http://www.youtube.com/emuathletics