April 2009 Archives

Download the stats to the UA's iTunes U public and private sites.

I noticed more activity in the Art & Identity series in Apple's public site report [above] and took a look at Apple's iTunes U Fine Arts section [iTunes link]. Art & Identity is included in the featured page and again shows that when Apple features one of our sites, the downloads increase.

Humanism in Exile during World War II: Hitler's Refugees in the United States Imagine the 'One 24 downloads
D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself 21 downloads
Drift: From Design Process to Resolution 18 downloads
Artists Books: Structure and Content17 downloads
Art for the 21st Century 16 downloads
Beguiling Deception: Women, Allegory and Portraiture in 18th-Century France 15 downloads
Michael Ray Charles: Investigating Racial Stereotypes. Part I 15 downloads
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke 15 downloads
Lecture for the 30th Annual Visual Communications Exhibition 15 downloads
and more ...

We have four new videos added to the UA's YouTube Channel from the College of Pharmacy.

Clark Lantz, SWEHSC, Describes Pilot Project Grants
Clark Lantz, deputy director of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, describes the center's pilot projects program, which awards seed money (up to $40,000 per year to investigators to obtain preliminary data they can use in other grant applications.

Catharine Smith, Pharmacy, Describes Her Pilot Project
Smith, associate professor at the College of Pharmacy, talks about her research involving the role that progesterone plays in the progression of breast cancer, and how she received a pilot project grant to continue her investigation.

Vaillancourt and Brooks Describe Their Pilot Project
Richard Vaillancourt, associate professor at the College of Pharmacy, and Heddwen Brooks, associate professor at the College of Medicine, discuss their joint research interest in how arsenic might play a role in causing diabetes. They also describe how they applied for and received a pilot project grant for their research and give advice to others who are considering applying.

Zhao Chen, Public Health, Describes Her Pilot Project
Zhao Chen, associate professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, describes her research in arsenic exposure in women's health, and how she learned about, applied for and received a pilot project grant to further her studies.

Download the spreadsheet for the public site or the private site.

Everyday I get at least several emails sent by YouTube advising that someone has subscribed to the UA's channel. I often click the text link to retrieve the new subscribers YouTube page and 9 times out of 10 it's either a porno site, some commercial site, or a site that defies description. People notify you of their subscription just to get you to look at their YouTube channel.

Once in a while I will see one that seems to be legitimate. Today, the third subscription notice (it is only 08:55 after all) is from someone in S. Korea who lists his/her age as 20 years old. There is no content but what this person is using YouTube for is to track different US colleges. Perhaps this person is interested in US universities with English as a Second Language programs and found the UA CESL's videos on YouTube. Perhaps he/she is looking for excellent science programs. In any case, he/she is examining the UA through the videos we have on our channel.

Here are some screenshots to step you through what I've seen.

Screenshot of YouTube user's channel homepage

Screenshot of this users's recent subscriptions. Note the other schools he/she has subscribed to

Expanded view of all his/her subscriptions

click image for larger version

I noticed 141 downloads for the video I uploaded April 9th of last week to the Art & Identity series: "Humanism in Exile during World War II: Hitler's Refugees in the United States Imagine the 'One World Order'." I noticed it included in Apple's iTunes U > Fine Arts > New and Notable. Click on See All to find it. Also, Ellen Lupton's D.Y.I. was downloaded another 18 times. This video has been in Art & Identity for 2-3 years and continues to be the most popular.

Here are the most recent spreadsheets on usage for the public site and the private site.

Friday afternoon, Gretchen, Wayne and I did the second of two professional development sessions for UA South faculty and staff. This one was held at the UA South Tech Park.

During the session we reviewed podcasting, iTunes, iTunes U, and the UA's iTunes U site. Then Gretchen led the participants in a hand-on learning experience with Audacity. Here's an image of GG and Wayne in action.

Robert T. C. Goodwin's November 7, 2008, lecture "Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South," was added to the ArizonaNativeNet [iTunes link] series. Dr. Goodwin is an internationally recognized scholar and expert on the history and culture of Early Modern Spain. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 from King's College London, and has served as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Spanish American Studies there. His most recent research has focused on accounts of captivity written by Spaniards during the early modern period and his most recent book, to be published in October 2008, Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South (HarperCollins) focuses on Alvar Nú˜nez Cabeza de Vacaos Naufragios, an account of the first 'European' crossing of North America, during which a black African slave named Esteban and three Spaniards were enslaved by Native Americans.

Barbara McCloskey presented "Humanism in Exile during World War II: Hitler's Refugees in the United States imagine the 'One World Order'" on March 26, 2009, as part of the School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series. Dr. McCloskey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 and Artists of World War II. Professor McCloskey has also published catalogue essays, journal articles, and anthology contributions on the subject of art and politics in German 19th and 20th century culture. She is currently preparing a book-length study of German artists and intellectuals in American exile during the World War II era. Video of her lecture is in Art & Identity: The Artists Lecture Series [iTunes link]

A post today to the IMAGELIB listserv points readers to Yale's McClintock glass latern collection. "Walter McClintock began documenting the Blackfoot community of northwestern Montana in the late 1890s. Over the next twenty years, McClintock made several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot and their homelands."

Take five minutes and browse or search the collection. Look a little closer at the entire collection that Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library provides through its Digital Library. Just a marvelous example of what a library can (and should) be doing to make its rare and special collections available to all.

Download the Pubic Site stats and/or the Private Site stats.

YouTube has a site within YouTube that has a directory of "university enhanced channels." Found this in a chat session of an Educause ELI Webinar. Why YouTube doesn't announce to us is a head scratcher.

Anyway, you can find a directory, list of most subscribed and most viewed here.

Catching up today with an update on the newest additions to the UA's iTunes U site and YouTube channel.

OED Innovation Day Honorees
I wrote last Thursday that I uploaded the Leading Edge Researcher and Innovator of the Year videos for the Office of Economic Development's Innovation Day event. Later in the day, Veronica passed along the audio tracks to the full interviews. You will find the full interviews in the Technology Innovation Awards in the UA's iTunes U site. They run from 30 minutes to 50 minutes. I keep the Innovation Day videos featured on the main page until Friday when I feature three of the new ones.

Race Track Industry Program (RTIP)
RTIP is one of the sites I show people from campus programs. It's a great example of how to utilize the YouTube channel to reach/recruit prospective students (maybe Jim Livengood ought to have a channel directed to coaches), as well as iTunes U. There are three sections: RTIP Guest Speakers, RTIP Student Internship Program, and RTIP Alumni. Back in December, RTIP held its annual Symposium which is well attended by people in the industry from around the country. It was held at La Paloma and among many of those attending are RTIP graduates. Heather and I went to La Paloma for the afternoon and she shot video of seven grads being interviewed by Denise Pharris, RTIP's marketing director. Veronica then edited these videos beautifully. The idea is that if you are student considering attending a program in the race track industry, you will watch graduates of the UA's program and see not only how well they speak of the experience but how successful they are because of it.

I'm sure you are familiar with Bonnie Henry's column in the Arizona Daily Star. On Monday the 30th she wrote "Book tells enticing story of wealthy husband-killer." This is about Patricia Stephenson's new book, Trial and Triumph, The Life and Accomplishments of Louise Foucar Marshall. The Star provides articles for free up to a week after they've been published so you have until the 5th to follow the above link to read it.

I encourage to you watch any and all of the following six short videos featuring UA researchers who were honored last week on UA Office of Economic Development's Innovation Day. Dr. Victor Hruby received the Innovator of the Year Award; recognized as Leading Edge Researchers were: Dr. Jonathan Overpeck, Dr. Emmanuel Katsanis, Dr. Eugene W. Gerner, Dr. Charles Falco, and Dr. Jennifer Barton. These videos are also in the OED's UA iTunes U site [iTunes link] in the Sciences topic section. I also have three set up as the main feature on our UA iTunes U homepage (see above image).

What I'd like to add is that Tony Gallego shot the video and Veronica Rodriguez did an outstanding job editing the videos. They exhibit the high quality the LTC's Media Services unit provides the campus.

Read UA News article on the awards.