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Posted in Blog, United States, video on Oct 23rd, 2009
Before the opening of video uploads on Nov 16, we’re posting ideas and examples of videos about university experience worldwide. Sometimes, simple interviews can make great video projects, especially when you put interviews next to each other. In this series on adjunct faculty in the USA, the Chronicle of Higher Education creates an informative montage [...]
Posted in Blog, video examples on Oct 15th, 2009
Between now and Nov 16, when you can post your own videos about university life and the issues you care about, we are posting good examples of videos and topics. We’re also posting examples of things that aren’t a great fit. Today’s examples are Free-D and A Vision of Students today. At first glance, the [...]
Posted in Blog, unilives video ideas, video examples on Oct 12th, 2009
This is a short video I made about the Cambridge University Societies Fair, which takes place at the start of every new year. The purpose of the event is to involve students, particularly new arrivals (sometimes called Freshers) in the active extracurricular life at Cambridge. There is a wide variety of options, covering sports, politics, [...]
Posted in Blog, unilives video ideas on Oct 9th, 2009
In the lead-up to accepting student video uploads on November 19th, we will be linking to good examples of short videos about university life. Soul Of Athens, created by over 50 students and faculty at the Ohio University School of Visual Communication, is a great repository of documentary shorts about Athens County, Ohio. We really [...]
Posted in Blog on Oct 7th, 2009
UniLives.com was launched today by the World University Project, alongside the announcement of the 2009 World University Rankings. On 16 November, you will be able to upload your videos, meet other students, discuss university life, vote for your favourite clips, and win prizes. Until then, we will be posting to the site with video ideas and answering your [...]
Posted in Blog, Turkey, United States, video on Oct 7th, 2009
This is a photo essay submitted by one of our friends, Pinar Kuzlu, an exchange student who has studied in both the USA and in Turkey. Her slideshow compares experiences in each of the universities where she has studied as an undergraduate. When UniLives.com opens for contributions in November, you can tell your story as [...]
Posted in Blog on Oct 6th, 2009
This photograph is of me – Joshua Guy Blanchard Lewis (second from right) – with a group of medical students from the specialist science and medicine university Omar Mukhtar, near Al Bayda in Libya. I visited Libya last March with a team of students and camera crew from Cambridge University, Anglia Ruskin University and the [...]
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