Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana is offering scholarships to students publishing YouTube videos promoting the College. An interesting idea, although, as Wired Campus point out, awarding the prizes to the videos with the most views is flawed.

(In other news, if you’re trying to embed a YouTube video and can’t find the embed html on the YouTube page, try uninstalling the Firefox addon Easy YouTube Video Downloader which for some reason hides the embed options….)

A great new project from Oxford, Wall of 100 Faces is a videowall with 100 short videos introducing a range of students at the university. It’s taken eight months to put together and there’s an interesting video on the wall with producer Hannah Madsen describing the background and processes (no direct link to individual videos unfortunately, Hannah’s video is the last, in the bottom right hand corner).

There’s a lot of excitement about the iphone finally getting cut and paste and the ability to do such mobile basics as picture messaging and contact sending/receiving, but it’s great to see iTunesU getting a much higher profile on the latest version of the operating system.

For the first time you can now access iTunesU directly through the phone, with Warwick University the first option on the homepage when I tried it. Expect to see usage rise over the next few months, although with such limited screen estate, it’s going to be more important than ever to build good relations with Apple and get those high profile feature spots.

Luke at Reach Students has done a great job of breaking down the list into 21 websites that students like more than you do.

Stanford University project with academics answering questions through video posts to the Stanford Facebook page rather than the (underused) physical open office hours.

• news story on Stanford website

A great interview from a recent Net@Night with Jordan Goldman, CEO of Unigo. Unigo is “a new platform for college students to share reviews, photos, videos, documents”. There’s several other sites with similar goals and I’ve no idea how successful Unigo will be in long-term comparison with them, but the 20 minute interview is well worth listening to for the range of topics covered including:

• the increasing influence of student-generated online social networks on the profile of universities
• how to use full-time editorial staff to push the development of a successful social network
• the ability of university-age students to create and run successful startups

The Imperial student bloggers were chosen through a first week of term, 600 word competition.

Sample profile page:

Opendays.com “has established itself as the definitive source of university and college open day information in the UK. We list open days for every UK higher education institution – both universities and colleges – and provide all of our information free of charge to users.”