NSLC video

Michigan State video

Iowa Wesleyan and YouTube

Just like with Flickr, there are several things that Iowa Wesleyan can do with YouTube that can benefit the school in some way. One way is a video tour of the campus. It is true that perspective students can come to IWC and take a campus tour with a student ambassador and meet some of the professors, but what about those students who can't come for a visit for one reason or another? A video tour of the campus could be the solution to that problem. A student ambassador could be filmed giving a tour as though the student was right there with them, and the video could be posted to YouTube and linked to the IWC homepage for perspective students to watch. Schools such as Columbia University, Yale University, and Cornell University already use YouTube for this very purpose, so why can't Iowa Wesleyan College?

Another thing IWC could use the site for is to show clips from our athletic events. The athletic department for the college could tape games, something I think some of the teams do already, select clips from those games, such as the last few minutes of this years MCC Women's Championship basketball game, and post it on YouTube on a channel run by IWC. If we want more people to come to the games and be able to recruit more players, wouldn't it be a good idea to have clips available for what they can expect?

Those are just a couple of ways Iowa Wesleyan could possibly use YouTube. I think they are worthy of thought, maybe others will too.

how Iowa Wesleyan could use Flickr

Flickr is home to main pictures of the Iowa Wesleyan campus, none of which were posted by the college itself. Why is this? IWC has a tool that is already being used by those on campus to post pictures so why hasn't the school started using it for itself when it can be used so many ways to help the school.

Iowa Wesleyan could use Flickr for several purposes, just like they do their Facebook and Twitter accounts. The IWC admissions office could use the site as a place to post pictures of the campus (buildings, the diverse student population, sports, etc.) that perspective students could go look at and see what it the college is like before deciding whether or not to attend the school. A basic search on Flickr showed that there are thousands of universities in the country that use their Flickr accounts for this purpose.

IWC could also use their Flickr account to promote student activities. By taking pictures at S.U.B. events, athletic events, and other events on campus, and posting them on Flickr, current and perspective students can see what all happens on campus.

I'm sure that IWC could find other ways that Flickr could be helpful to the school. By creating an account and posting pictures, they can add it as a link to the homepage so that perspective and current students could see what it is like to be at Iowa Wesleyan.

ISU campus

Originally uploaded by Iowa State University Office of Admissions

I like how this photo shows you most of the building. If I was a perspective student, I would look at this picture and get a general idea of how big this building is.

ISU

Originally uploaded by Iowa State University Office of Admissions

I think this is a great photo of this tower on the ISU campus.

Chi Omega Theater at The University of Arkansas

Chi Omega Theater at The University of Arkansas
Originally uploaded by Kim Rozanske

I decided to show how other schools use Flickr. I chose the University of Arkansas because I grew up in that city. This picture showed one of the outdoor theaters that is one campus. They hold plays and musicals there sometimes.

Oh what a long drive

Yesterday I drove from our wonderful campus in Mt. P to my grandparents' house in Springdale...Arkansas! That was an EIGHT hour drive. Let me just tell ya something, that felt like the longest drive ever! I drove through 3 different states, Iowa, Missouri, and a little bit of Arkansas. I finally managed to see my state capitol while driving through Missouri, that was interesting.

So far this looks like it will be a great Spring Break. I get to hang out with my grandparents, then later go home and see my friends. I can't wait til then.

Poynter Ethics Tips

Evening News and video, are they airing enough?

I was reading an article by Kelly McBride about how news stations cut video they are sent and how it can be misleading and misunderstood. She starts the article by giving the example of a cop in Dallas who ran over and killed a kid that was riding his bike on the street. The cop was responding to a call without lights or a siren and had no time to see the kid; the kid didn't see him until it was too late. Unfortunately for the cop four news stations took the dashboard camera video, which had been released to the public by the police chief, and took a small clip, different for each station, and aired it during the evening news. What these clips didn't show was how fast the entire situation happened and how nothing could have stopped it once it started.

Kelly's opinion in this situation is that news stations should post the video in its entirety online. Doing this would so viewers that the cop was driving too fast and the kid didn't see the cop until it was too late.

I agree with her in this. I know there have been some video clips that I have seen on the news that didn't paint the best picture of the truth. I would have liked to have the opportunity to see the entire video to know what truly happened. It is understandable that the entire video cannot be aired due to time constraints, but that does not mean that it should not be available for everyone to see.

Copyrights

I have read lately about copyrights, what they are, and what is protected by a copyright. After reading this, I realized just how many copyright violations happen on an everyday basis.

One that I realize a lot, pretty much everyday, is that of using words from a song, or the song itself. Under copyright laws, the song is not ours to use, even if the words are uploaded somewhere online. The place I see this happen the most is on Facebook and Myspace, if anyone actually uses that anymore. Almost everyday, or at least every other day, someone has posted a "status" that is some song lyric that they have heard recently, that they like, or even ones they randomly came across. What most people don't realize it that by using those words, they are violating the copyright that the artist has when they wrote the lyrics.

Another common infringement on copyrights on music is using the song for some reason or another. This is most commonly seen on YouTube. Some people have posted videos with songs playing throughout the video. Now there's a fuzzy line between what is legal and what is not, but many videos out there to violate copyrights in some way. Especially those that have the song playing with the words displayed throughout the video; that's illegal in more ways then one.

These are just two ways that I see copyrights being violated on a daily basis, but there is definitely more where these came from.