Video at Tufts University

At the start of our project we looked for streaming video already being applied on Tuft’s affiliated web-sites. We discovered various streaming projects being utilized academically, for promotional purposes, and for archiving events at Tufts. Some sites had an informal function sharing ideas and highlighting student life between organizations and clubs. We are witnessing not only a collegiate trend in the use of digital video applications on the web but an expectation from students to incorporate visual content into there web-life.

Office of the President

Tufts President Lawrence Bacow has his own site that supplies contact information, biographies, agendas, and memos. His site also has an archive of his speeches dating back to 2001 available on Real Player. To see streaming video of President Bacow’s speeches go here.

University College

University College supports a mission to ensure that Tufts graduates be ‘prepared to be committed public citizens’. One way University College engages it students is the creation of TV programs and documentaries advocating social change. On their web-site viewers are able to access current and past programming.

Tufts Commencement 2005

Ed Dente,  the assistant director of Media Services has worked with the conference Bureau’s director, Paul Tringale on a site devoted to the live web-cast of Tufts Commencement activities. Not only is there a live web-cast scheduled for May 22, 2005 last years as streaming video archived on the site. The viewer has the option of using Microsoft Windows Media Player or Real Player.

Education Department

On the Boston Campus an 11 minute video followed by a program on inner city diversity is available at this site.

Here the streaming video works as a teaching tool to educate new staff members and faculty on the benefits and diversity of working in an urban educational system.

Tufts Virtual Tour

Beau Schilz, Senior Info Analysist for Student Services and Andrew Sonnenschen, Assistant Dir. of Enrollment Information Systems have created this sequence of video for potential and incoming students. The virtual tour was commissioned by the Admissions Department with a focus of orienting people with the campus with slide shows, options of 360 degree panning options, and pre-recorded testimonials from students discussing their experiences at tufts. Take the tour here.

Human Resources

The Human Resources department at Tufts has devised eSERVE@HR to connect its employees to PeopleSoft and Employment Self Services. During times of open enrollment Human Resources posts a Real Player demo about Open Enrollment. See http://eserve.hr.tufts.edu/.

Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University

Focusing on topics from astronomy, physics, biology, geology, and chemistry the Wright Lecture series hosts lectures that are free and appropriate for people of all levels of study. The Wright Center has a streaming video archive of its past lectures. Short animated films are also available on the site.

Tufts University Taekwondo

The Tufts Taekwondo Club was started in 1990by freshman students that felt there was not enough of a martial arts presence on campus. Their web-site has links to other Taekwondo sites and offers the history of Taekwondo and tells how it originated as a club at Tufts University. One way the site promotes its group is by offering streaming video clips of sparring practices and tournaments.

JUMBOt Robotics Academy

In 2003 Tufts students received a grant by the National Science Foundation to work in teams and with children K-12 involved with their outreach program This research program was created to mimic the real-world design process, where not everyone on the design team is an engineer. Projects are exposed on this site by means of streaming video.