Related podcasts and videoblogs

How can we best know about an international student experience in a foreing country? The search I've done today is to find some podcasts and videoblogs made by international students.


The first podcast I've found is SIELI international student podcast. SIELI stands for: Summer Intensive English Language Institute, it is an eight-week intensive English language program. This summer language institute is located at Columbia College in Chicago. The description of this podcast in the itunes web is: "This podcast is produced by the international students at Columbia College Chicago's Summer Intensive English Language Institute (SIELI), where they share their experiences from their home countries as well as their impressions of life in Chicago". We can listen to the podcasts just clicking "play" and it is free. There is also a link to the podcast website.


Another interesting podcast is in the CNN website: CNN Student News. CNN Student News is a ten-minute daily news program produced by the journalists and educators at CNN, it is an award-winning program. You can see the show as a streamed video on CNN Student News website (CNNStudentNews.com), or download it as a free podcast. The program is free and accessible to anyone who wants to watch; there are no subscription charges or contracts to complete.


This is not a videoblog (Unruly Media) about international students but I think it is an interesting videoblog for students who are interested in marketing or advertising. Unruly Media is the world's leading exponent of viral video marketing. Every day, Unruly Media helps global agencies promote viral videos, movie trailers, web shows, cool TV ads, and other forms of branded entertainment on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, influential blogs, cult websites, and social media applications. It helps agencies and marketers distribute branded content on the social web. Unruly Media has bought, earned, and audited over a billion user-intended views across more than six hundred video campaigns since 2006. In each post, Unruly Media uploads a video with different adversiting campaings. 


First Year Experience is a blog where five first-year students at Woffor College (in the USA) share their different experiences. We have Tayler Swain's videoblog, where he shares his experinces at university, for example, he talks about baseball at university in a video. As he was in France during Wofford's January Interim, there are also videos from his trip to France.