The journey project

I’ve been playing with the time-lapse video thing for a while now – mostly of long events that involve lots of students interacting (like Link Week, Drop-in etc) so uploading to YouTube has become more and more frequent.  Interestd to hear today (from Karine Joly – thx!) that YouTube EDU has been launched and works as a portal page that displays content from partnered educational insititions.   It looks like this right now:

Once I get more and more content on the UWA StudySmarter account I’m going to embed a link to embed a link to that video content to my website using (once again!) the instrictions from Karine on her blog collegewebeditor.com

Everyone seems to be talking about it – the entire Skittles website has been turned over to social sites.  there is a small widget in the corner for navigation but the main page is their Twitter page, the ‘pics’ page goes to a Flickr album, the video page to YouTube and the friends link goes to Facebook.  There are disclaimers and users have to click that they agree to the T&C but most people seem to be commenting on the amount of spam hitting the pages.  Check it out for yourslf.  I suspect that problems aside for a minute – this is a stroke of genius.

Believe it.

Whilst following the advice of Fred Stutzman posted by Karine Joly over at collegwebeditor.com for tracking any new YouTube videos that may contain material about my institution (UWA) I found that UWA also stands for Ultimate Wrestling Alliance in the US and Australia (hence my Bloglines page was filled with YouTube videos of lady wrestlers!).

For the impatient amongst you the way to track new videos that include tags you’re interested in, the instructions are reproduced below but check out Fred or Karine’s advice for more info/original source:

• Make a list of keywords that might be used to describe these videos: your institution’s name, your president’s name, your athletics teams, etc.
• For each of the words on your list, just replace “YOUTUBETAG” by the keyword in the following address:
  www.youtube.com/rss/tag/YOUTUBETAG.rss
• Copy and paste the resulting addresses in your favorite RSS reader (I use Bloglines, and I can watch the video there)

Nothing on YouTube yet/recently about the University of Westen Australia but seeing as I’m going to start posting videos pretty soon I hope to be able to see the updates in my feeder!