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[Results] Are Classes in Your Toolbox?

29. January 2010

Towards the end of 2009, we started a new survey of higher ed web professionals to take a look at one potential way that you are using the resources around you. The question centered on a fairly simple, central concept: odds are that on your campus you have classes teaching the creation of different kinds [...]

When advertising on Hulu (pre-roll ads) goes wrong

5. November 2009

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Advertising your institution on a number of sites via text, banner, or even pre-roll videos ads has become ever more popular as the shift from print to digital takes hold. There is one downside to this change though, loss of context control.

Designing a Custom Flip Cam

25. August 2009

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How is this for great – one of the first things I got to do after being officially hired by Fire Engine RED was design and buy a Flip MinoHD to use at NACAC. After conferring with Keith, a fellow new FER employee and a compatriot from an old job, I opted for one of [...]

Don’t Forget to Vote for the eduStyle Awards!

27. May 2009

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Don’t Forget to Vote for the eduStyle Awards!

Voting for the second annual eduStyle awards closes in just a couple of days, and we wanted to give you a reminder to drop by and vote! Not only that, be sure to drop a checkmark down for .eduGuru for the best higher ed blog. Just in case you need some more convincing though, I [...]

Talkback: Trusting Your Users

24. April 2009

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First off, a special thanks to HighEdWeb and Cornell for having the .eduGuru team present virtually at their conference yesterday. It was a good time and a great experience getting to do something a little new and fancy with sharing our experiences with other people. I certainly hope that we can expand on that [...]

Captioning your YouTube videos with CaptionTube

20. April 2009

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I’m an accessibility advocate and one thing thats been bothering me for a while was the lack of an easy way to caption videos uploaded to YouTube. They clearly explain they support closed captioning:

HighEdWeb 2008 Twitter’ers

4. October 2008

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Following the success of my post at eduWEB of Twitter’ers I decided to be a little proactive this time and started a discussion in the HighEdWeb Ning group asking who is on Twitter. Who would have thought that it would be this successful?

eduWEB Presentation: Email Marketing for Higher Education

22. July 2008

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Now that my presentation is through here are some goodies for anyone that missed the presentation along with some additional data. This presentation was definitely a good learning experience for myself as it’s really the first time I’ve given a presentation in the hour long format. It’s a tough balance not getting too technical while [...]

Blog Upgrade: Student Video Blogger

21. May 2008

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Starting in January we tried something a little different with our First Year Student blogs. As I’ve reported before I had a hunch that prospective students care more about videos, where their parents are more likely to read the student blogs. In a creative effort and some good collaboration we were able to [...]

Taking Soundslides to the Next Level, Videos!

24. April 2008

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Some months ago College Web Guy wrote a post about Soundslides. In the software’s own words, “Soundslides is a rapid production tool for still image and audio web presentations.” It isn’t kidding. This software is so easy to use, a caveman could use it!