Campus Rec has produced a promo about the 2010 expansion to the Rec Center. It's Coming: The Rec Center 2010 Expansion. A copy is also in the Campus Rec iTunes U section.
The Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) has featured several videos on its homepage that were uploaded to the UA's YouTube channel. These videos are well suite for the YouTube channel because of their value as public information pieces.
Dr. William Crist, VP for Health Affairs
UA Scorpion Antivenom Study Featured in NEJM
I've been working on an internal report looking at the question: If I podcast my course, why would students still come to class?
There is a good deal of literature available that shows that students do not cut class because audio and/or video of class lectures are available. We also have anecdotal information from UA faculty who are podcasting course lectures who tell us that they have not observed a decrease in class attendance. In fact, these faculty members report that students appreciate having the lectures available and use them to review for exams, clarify difficult points, and catch up when they miss class for legitimate reasons.
Download a PDF of my report Podcast Your Lectures or, why students will still attend class.
Download a copy of the Public site and/or Private site spreadsheets.
Thanks to Deb Andrysiak for sending these three excellent sites about Twitter for academics.
100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics by Jill Gordon appears in the blog Best Colleges Online. The post correctly points out that Twitter "has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and education" and offers 100 tips on getting started, Twitter etiquette, strategies, ideas for instructors, benefits for students, tips for the class, assignments using Twitter, suggestions for people and things to track on Twitter, Twitter tools, Twitter tools for use in academia, andinding people in academia to follow.
Twitter.edu: Resources for using a micro-blog application in an academic setting is Elaine Edwards of Kansas State's blog devoted to using Twitter in higher ed. It's current and includes posts titled "ech Tips for Educators," "Suggested K-State Twitter Guidelines," and "Examples of Twitter Usage from other Universities."
Twitter Fan Wiki is an actual Twitter site that was "set this up as a place to post cool ideas, uses and feature requests for Twitter. Share anything you've found that you think the Twitter community might be interested in!" This site also has a directory of higher ed Twitter sites.
Here are the past two weeks iTunes U spreadsheets, less the Oct. 11th-17th private site. I was out of the country and managing email with my iPhone and wireless access. It appears i accidentally deleted that one. Webmail is darn small even when you pinch and expand.
Public site week of October 11-17, 2009
Public site week of October 18-24, 2009
Private site week of October 18-24, 2009
If you've heard my pitch to participate in the UA's YouTube channel, I've mentioned the staggering number of videos viewed that comScore reports from time to time for YouTube. Most recently, as reported in a New York Times article, "YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States."
Apparently Chad Hurley, one of YouTube's founders, wrote a blog entry saying YouTube gets 1B views a day and the Times article pointed out how that equates to roughly 30B a month - meaning a lot of views from outside the U.S.
If you've not heard me drone about these numbers, think about how that speaks volumes to reaching prospective students, family members, and the general citizenry. If, as a comment to the article wrote, 90% of those views are of smut, that still leaves, what, 100M viewers to target.
Last week I wrote about how having one of our UA videos included on Apple's main iTunes U page guarantees a lot of downloads. I also reviewed what the browse stats mean on the spreadsheets. Ellen Lupton's D.Y.I. video continued being featured on Apple's iTunes U main page all last week and received another 535 downloads and 7,768 previews.
Take a look at the top browses from last week. This is really interesting data. (browse means that rather than downloading by clicking GET MOVIE, users double-clicked the title and watch the video in iTunes) These stats tell us something about student and/or user behavior. There are many more previews for these lectures than downloads.
Art & Identity: The Artists Lecture Series "D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself" 7768 previews
Campus Health Service SexTalk. "SexTalk Anal Sex 567 previews
Pediatric Grand Rounds "Pathology of the Pediatric Airway" 563 previews
"College of Pharmacy Convocation part 1" 550 previews
"Pharmacy Practice 845 August 25, 2009" 503 previews
Dr. Jim Collins' VSC433 Medical and Molecular Virology "11 Virus Structure I" 441 previews
"CoM Events "Issues in Rural Health" 370 previews
Dr. Jim Collins' VSC433 Medical and Molecular Virology "Virus Receptors" 332 previews
"College of Pharmacy Convocation part 2" 324 previews
CALA GIS National Parks Service Lectures "Google Earth:Telling the Story of Your Data ..." 315 previews
College of Medicine Advances in Aging Research "Pain Management Modalities for Older Adults" 228 previews
Dr. Jim Collins' MIC205A General Microbiology "17 Recombination and Biotechnology" 212 previews
Dr. Jim Collins' VSC433 Medical and Molecular Virology "Introduction to Retroviruses" 143 previews
Download the spreadsheets for the past week. Private site | Public site
