June 20, 2007
U. Tube
Colleges are making the interactive features of their Web sites more prominent. Loyola University Chicago has recently refurbished its Website — complete with YouTube-type videos, called LU Tube, and blogs from Loyola students around the world appearing front and center.
The LU Tube features recorded speeches from visiting alumni and includes testimonials from students and professors. One video acts as an infomercial explaining why it’s beneficial for students to earn an MBA.
The Blog Around the World, as it’s called, allows Loyola students to post journal entries on the university’s Web site. One medical student doing volunteer work in Uganda posted a shout-out to all dads for Fathers Day, which ran near a separate narrative describing a car wreck in a village that involved a child being struck and killed, followed by a mob of villagers looking to hunt the culprit down. —Dan Carnevale
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Anyone else with a Mac having problems viewing the site? Both Firefox and Safari aren’t allowing me to view the home page — I just get a big magenta bar and the Loyola logo.
— Mac Guy Jun 21, 09:34 AM #
Sad to say, but you will likely need to try Explorer – as old as it is. The Chronicle would be smart to ensure that viewers using the Mac platform can see everything – especially now that Safari is also a Windows browser.
— Dave Ottalini Jun 21, 10:07 AM #
The problem is on the Loyola site, not the Chronicle. The magenta bar you mention is a Flash element.
— Tolana Jun 21, 10:13 AM #
Safari 2.0.4 on a Mac using 10.4.9 works to see the site. Try a different version of Safari perhaps?
— Jonathan Art Jun 21, 11:02 AM #
I don’t think it’s a Flash problem – this works: http://www.luc.edu/supports/home.swf
I think it’s a Yahoo API problem.
— Mac Guy Jun 21, 12:03 PM #
The article is about wonderful IT interactions, and every comment is about the inability to use it. There’s a word for that, but my on-line thesaurus is down.
— Owen Sholes Jun 21, 12:22 PM #
Syracuse University has a YouTube-like site as well: http://video.syr.edu/
— J.B. Jun 22, 12:30 PM #