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Inside Vandy pushes multimedia packages

Vanderbilt’s InsideVandy has been pushing the envelope recently in their online offerings. While they’ve been doing multimedia for a while, they are starting to package their efforts into more user-friendly experiences.

Check out these attractive packages: A City Guide, with restaurant reviews and an interactive map; a history of housing package with 360 panorama photographs from different . . . → Read More: Inside Vandy pushes multimedia packages

SMU Daily Campus redesigns site

The Daily Campus at Southern Methodist University launched a new design for their web site over winter break. The paper also upgraded to College Publisher 5. Editor Meredith Shamburger says the staff hopes to produce more multimedia and use the redesigned site to develop a web-first mentality.

If your student media outlet web site has undergone a . . . → Read More: SMU Daily Campus redesigns site

InsideVandy basketball previews

via Twitter, @katherinemiller points to a couple of basketball season previews from InsideVandy that are worth noting for their multimedia prowess. Check out the men’s and women’s previews. If you click on a player’s photo, you get an audio breakdown of the player’s strengths, along with a breakout box of pertinent stats. The design is clean, . . . → Read More: InsideVandy basketball previews

High Point U. streams SGA candidate debate

Campus Chronicle streams the SGA candidate debate. Check it out here. (via @hupchron on . . . → Read More: High Point U. streams SGA candidate debate

dennews.com’s battle of the bands sampler

I don’t normally spotlight the work of the students I advise at the Daily Eastern News, but I did want to highlight a recent project by Chris Essig, a former online editor and current assistant online editor.

Chris created a flash-based interface to listen to music from bands who entered the Verge (DEN’s entertainment section) Battle . . . → Read More: dennews.com’s battle of the bands sampler

GW Hatchet getting into slideshows

Howard Marshall e-mails about the latest efforts of the GW Hatchet (at George Washington U.) producing audio slideshows. Check out these slideshows from the Democratic National . . . → Read More: GW Hatchet getting into slideshows

Columbia Spectator: 40 years later

 

The Columbia Spectator put together a multimedia package about the protests that took place in 1968. Check out the intro page here. You can open the multimedia page using this link (or just click on the text in the intro page if you want the package to take over your browser).

Interestingly, the Spectator package has a . . . → Read More: Columbia Spectator: 40 years later

Tower blogs Papal visit

The Tower student newspaper at Catholic University of America set up a separate blog to detail the Pope’s visit to campus. Updates (like this one) were sent to the WordPress-backed blog with a Blackberry phone.

h/t Andrew Young at . . . → Read More: Tower blogs Papal visit

Recent multimedia examples

We have 48 records in the Multimedia Examples database right now. I thought I’d pull a couple out and showcase them on the front page. If you have an example you’d like to submit, do so here.

Timeline-ness

The Washington Square News at NYU published a timeline of their coverage of a student council scandal using Simile, a . . . → Read More: Recent multimedia examples

Doane and FAU: multimedia examples

A couple of multimedia examples from disparate regions of the country that I’ve been meaning to get to:

David Swartzlander, adviser at Doane College in Nebraska, sent a link to this multimedia story. Here are his words:

In January 2007, eight students and I drove in a van from Crete, Neb. to Alabama to research the origins of . . . → Read More: Doane and FAU: multimedia examples