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.
Wildcatcasts
Three new videos were added to Wildcatcasts. This iTunes U site hosts videos that are single events, rather than ongoing series.
On Tuesday, March 24th, BorderLore, a project of UA's The Southwest Center, hosted a lecture by Dr. Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez. Dr. Vélez-Ibáñez is Chair, Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization at ASU. The title of his talk was "Fronterizo and Transborder Existences: Binding Megascripts in a Transnational World." Here's a blurb from the announcement.
For many in the Southwest North American region, events and history have prevented the development of a single tracked citizenship-based personality development in which our beings are tied only to an American civil life. The acculturation model has been pretty much devastated by the recognition that there are multiple dimensions of cultural personalities that cannot be reduced to simple unilineal identities. We live American civil lives but contextualized within multiple transnational and transborder points of reference. Therefore, culturally we amass and discard layers of cultural skins that simply do not refer to only a simple cultural referent such as citizenship. We live that, but as well we live within and on many bordered aspects of ourselves that are historically penetrating of our very beings of ourselves and beyond the reach of an imposed or acquired citizenship. We gather in the midst of social relations as old as the Romans, worship in religions older, and from told and lived experiences participate and are reminded of our transnational and transborder selves on a daily basis and simultaneously die in American wars. It's been this way since the 19th century. Only there have been huge contradictory megascripts that often led us in different directions and created filters over our minds.
The second video is one the LTC shot of a lecture given at the Foundation's Grants for Lunch event, "Please, just take my wallet ..." on February 18th. Evan Mendelson is senior nonprofit executive and philanthropic consultant. His talk was directed at the donor's point of view.
Fundraisers often are caught up in the worthiness and rightness of their cause and sometimes forget that the donor they are trying to attract is a human being and not a checkbook. This session will be a discussion of the unique aspects of working with high net-worth individuals, families and family foundations.
The third video captured the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the 24/7 Support Center. Following welcomes and introduction by UA CIO Michele Norin and Limell' Lawson were two student speakers. First was Dustin Sandell, chair of the IT Student Advisory Board who was followed by Stephen Bieda III, president of the Graduate & Professional Student Council.
Poetry Center
Finally, you will find a new site started for the UA's Poetry Center in the Humanities topic section. The first video is of Stephanie Balzer at the Mary Ann Campau Fellowship Reading. The Poetry Center is without question one of the best poetry archives in the country and as a living archive, it regularly hosts guest speakers, lectures and readings. There is great potential to develop an iTunes U site with exceptional content.
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