New Media Lab

The Wesleyan University New Media Lab staff are off to a busy start in 2012, with projects such as the content management system migration, website redesign, mobile site development, and 60 + video podcasts scheduled for production and development this year.  Before we turn the page on 2011, here are a few Wesleyan NML Fast Facts from last year…

• In December 2011, the Wesleyan YouTube Channel surpassed 1 million video views and 880 subscribers
• As of December, 493 videos have been uploaded to YouTube/Wesleyan since 2008
• Out of the 270 websites under the Wesleyan domain, 133 are now “live” in the new CMS and redesign; 49 websites are currently in development; and approximately 68 websites remain in the migration schedule.
• The Wesleyan mobile website launched in October 2011, with almost 14,000 page views in the first month.
• In April 2011, Wesleyan upgraded to the new iTunes U interface and CMS; added 503 total podcast tracks to our iTunes U Channel, which included 66 1-hour long video podcasts from the Fall 2011 semester alone.
• Wesleyan’s iTunes U now features 42 podcast “series” with 49,727 podcast tracks (titles) being downloaded or previewed in 2011.
• The top three most popular podcast series for 2011 were:

1. “Western Movies: Myth, Ideology & Genre”
2. “Writing at Wesleyan”
3. “East Asian Studies”

Up next in 2012, we will continue to migrate the remaining Wesleyan websites into our content management system and new design, improve our support of emerging digital media technologies, and continue to collaborate with the campus community to support the digital media needs of the university.  Don’t forget to subscribe to the New Media Lab blog, and stay up-to-date with all of the latest projects and website launches from the Lab.

Tags: Cascade, iTunes U, New Media Lab, Website, YouTube

Wesleyan has launched the newly redesigned site for the Language Resource Lab (LRC). You can visit the site by going to www.wesleyan.edu/lrc.

Wesleyan has launched the new Academics page about the Capstone Experience. You can visit the new site at http://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/curriculum/capstone.html

Wesleyan has launched the newly redesigned Office of Institutional Research website. You can visit the site at http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/

Wesleyan has launched the newly redesigned Wesleyan HHMI Program website. You can visit the site at www.wesleyan.edu/hughes.

Wesleyan has launched the newly redesigned Queer Life at Wesleyan website. You can visit the site at www.wesleyan.edu/queer.

Wesleyan has launched the newly redesigned Martin Luther King Jr. website. You can visit the site at www.wesleyan.edu/mlk.

Wesleyan launched the website for the Physics department.  Check it out at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/physics

As part of this site, two new WordPress sites were also created.  One for Physics Demonstrations (http://physicsdemos.site.wesleyan.edu/), and one about the history of the Science at Wesleyan from 1831-1942 by Burton H. Camp, Class of 1901 (http://wesscience.site.wesleyan.edu/).

Wesleyan launched the website for the Math/CS department.  Check it out at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/mathcs/

The departmental blog has a new look too.  Check it out at http://mathcs.blogs.wesleyan.edu/