Link: Vanderbilt newscasts

Carol Schmidt sends this link to Vanderbilt University’s award-winning video newscast page, specifically a video about the first black student to earn a football scholarship to Vanderbilt.

Carol says:

It has won several awards, including regional Emmy’s. The first, and only, video I watched was 10 minutes. It was about the first African-American scholarshipped football player at Vanderbilt who just graduated 40 years after he started. I didn’t finish it, even though it was very good. Ten minutes is too long. A good lesson to all of us.

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2 Comments

  1. Posted June 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

    Good point about the length of the video, Carol. I watched about half of it before I dis­cov­ered that I had other things that needed doing. Web videos should be shorter than that.

    On the plus side, at least Vanderbilt allows its site’s vis­i­tors to embed videos on their own Web pages — some­thing that I think we’ll need to make hap­pen when our time for upload­ing videos comes. However, it appears that Vanderbilt’s embed code is invalid, mak­ing it unlikely that the video will play in many people’s browser win­dows. That’s some­thing we can learn from too: make your code valid if you expect peo­ple to use it!

  2. Melynda
    Posted June 9, 2009 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    I’ve also found that if a video is too long I stop watch­ing it, even if it is good. Everyone is so busy these days that we can only han­dle a few min­utes of some­thing before our atten­tion is drawn to the next thing on the to-do list. It’s kind of too bad.

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