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: ken@eduvation.ca.
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