As Canadian campuses wind down toward the winter holidays, Ken Steele surveys recent trends in college and university holiday greeting videos in 2 special extended episodes of Ten with Ken. In this week’s 19-minute episode, Ken shares extremely tightly-edited highlights from 49 institutional videos in 5 categories: animated greeting cards, short story vignettes, personal greetings, Q&A compilations, and multilingual greetings.
Thompson Rivers University's marketing department captures the challenges of being politically correct and gaining committee approval, 2014 - https://youtu.be/5S5h_x8vLCQ
ANIMATED CARDS:Vancouver Community College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/l_xwoG4e4CM University of Waterloo, CECA, 2014 - https://youtu.be/Bv5DoNH2PK0 St Lawrence College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/0KzxSuDVak8 University of Winnipeg, 2013 - https://youtu.be/yjTKfdn2Pjw Georgian College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/APdQM1wWKYM Humber College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/UECuf6MblwI BCIT, 2014 - https://youtu.be/kiJmwr1Oop4 Centennial College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/jt5Zm_HamLE Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2013 - https://youtu.be/GHSyo8uygs4 Red Deer College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/uW2gWhbsJs0 Carleton University, 2010 - https://youtu.be/jYJvv9cJ2e4 Ryerson University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/RA3RdWDgWQY Camosun College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/lcTvWbO3PZg UBC, Interactive Website, 2014 - https://support.ubc.ca/ecards/holiday-card-2014/ Nipissing University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/WwOM1-CWBNE Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2014 - https://youtu.be/aliM2MOwzvs Royal Roads University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/kUf0A3jx8Jk George Brown College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/orUM1PPPV2k Acadia University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/_QWIUq9JsZw Nova Scotia Community College, 2012 - https://youtu.be/99mCxoykG-Y Mohawk College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/S9GrSNxdGnk Niagara College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/sQBxQQfuN1w Western University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/BHU5GPrqxps
VIGNETTES:Sheridan College, 2013 - https://youtu.be/GOXFAN4gRRM Sheridan College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/jU3Rb1ZYkh8 York University Lassonde School of Engineering, 2014 - https://youtu.be/BvcELvQimPc Western University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/McDzHIkKMco
PERSONAL GREETINGS:Collège Boréal, 2013 - https://youtu.be/yNw1Po8tPMg St Lawrence College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/DTbnoNYqKBI Briercrest College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/KRUHGnms9rM Mount Royal University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/mYANycbBYUE Trent University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/xf9HawOXgr4 Simon Fraser University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/OV67RXMCd2o Thompson Rivers University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/YCuS-bGItfA University of Waterloo, 2014 - https://youtu.be/Peb_Dpvjqbc Algonquin College, 2014 - https://youtu.be/Wla_j1g0nSA Nipissing University, 2014 - https://vimeo.com/113403258
Q&A COMPILATIONS:Dalhousie University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/Wu_J8Nmn8X8 King’s University College at Western, 2013 - https://youtu.be/G557sfnMxTw Saint Francis Xavier University Athletics, 2014 - https://youtu.be/v-MLNQOj6uY University of the Fraser Valley, 2014 - https://youtu.be/v-lR1708CDI Queen’s University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/1pcIt7vuFFc
MULTILINGUAL GREETINGS:Vancouver Island University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/s4eRu4R3a3g Vancouver Island University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/iEjJpctxWoU Cape Breton University, 2014 (no longer online)Ryerson University, International Student Life, 2014 - https://youtu.be/3-ulasYNuXU McGill University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/M8NgbWtezGI Dalhousie University, 2013 - https://youtu.be/cUvNrgNTJCg Simon Fraser University, 2014 - https://youtu.be/Ql92s8LaL2Q
Stay tuned next week for part 2, in which we share excerpts from 27 more holiday greeting videos, from categories like comedy and parody, seasonal goodwill gestures, and campus choirs!
If you’ve seen a noteworthy campus greeting message this year, check to see if it’s on our 2015 Holiday Greetings playlist. If not, please drop me an email: [email protected].
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