I have just noticed that Vanderbilt has a website for the student community: InsideVandy. The tagline says it is Vanderbilt University’s online student community. It is a site with content created by the students for the students. I think this is a great initiative by Vandy. About page reveals that this is a project of the Student Media at Vanderbilt University.
The website is built on Drupal as it is evident from the site icon and the install directory. The design looks neat. But most importantly it is a platform for Vandy students to voice their opinions and interact with other students. Registered users can have a blog, post pictures, and submit stories. I have no idea if this is precedented. If so, I would like to see what other university has this kind of a website that lets students create content and blog.
Among the interesting content that I noticed after spending very little time on the site is the daily Vanderbilt TV (VTV) vidcast. Unfortunately, there is no way that I was able to find to see all the video clips on that vidcast page. However, looks like they use YouTube to post and store the videos so the VandyTV channel more useful to subscribe to for getting all the video clips.
Also on the Multimedia page, there are so called Student Films which showcase short films produced by Vandy students. This is also a great idea. However, as in the case of the VTV vidcast, it would be very good if there were a seperate feed for those video posts.
I will be watching this space for a while and see how it evolves. It is great to see signs of user-centric web projects here at Vandy. I had written about the Vanderbilt news podcasts (vucast) before, and now InsideVandy. It just feels good to see how Vanderbilt adapts to the changing trends on the web.
[tags]vanderbilt, insidevandy, web 2.0 [/tags]
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