BYOP: we have a YouTube playlist

…6 hrs, 45 mins of videos, a lot of popcorn. We've been collecting videos about the adjunct life, higher education, academic workplace issues, activism and related topics. Normally, videos get blogged singly with the BYOP (bring your own popcorn) tag. With a total of 41 and four added just today, announcing the NewFacMajority video playlist is long overdue. So here it is.

Videos range from interviews, documentary trailers and news footage to xtranormal blasts. Reality and wry humor. We want to grow longer the list. Send your recommendations. Post the link to comments here, on our Facebook page or tweet them to @NewFacMajority

BYOP: CAW Survey video on ExtraNormal

Today opens the 2nd (and last) month for taking the CAW Survey. Don't let it stall midway through. If you haven't already, take it now. 20,000 have, but there are millions of us. Millions minus 20,000 slackers and procrastinators. Don't be one. Do you need a ribbon, a badge or a gold star?



Video heads up courtesy of AFTFACE. Please share ~ re-blog, forward, backlink, bookmark, review, vote for it on BuzzFlash, like and share on Facebook, and so on. Do you need a tutorial? That can be arranged.

BYOP: Part-time Faculty Working Conditions

This is neither the 1st time I've recommended xtranormal, a neat DIY text-to-video app, nor the 1st amateur-auteur xtranormal video blogged here. Back in May, I posted an extranormal video about a student-asking-teacher-for-extension exchange along with an exhortation to consider the application as a tool for advocacy.

The clip below is, however, the 1st by a New Faculty Majority member, VP Matt William's debut as video auteur. En garde, Cahiers du Cinéma! 

Nice to know at least one someone isn't clueless. Thanks, Matt. Now, the rest of you, board members (even if the effort is neither juried nor cv-able), other NFM members, any adjunct with a message to get out: get to it. Make a video. Send me your embed codes. Upload them to YouTube too. Let's flood the internet with clever, to the point videos. Free too. A price even an adjunct can afford.