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.
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