More Information for Instructors

The Project

Please contact Dr. Cardillo, via email at campusreboot@gmail.com, if your school is interested in being involved with Campus Reboot, a crowd-sourced, interactive and collaborative web-based documentary research project. This will be a living document of the historical times of college during the Covid19 pandemic and its aftermath.

This could be a very useful and important project, especially if we go online anytime during the semester.

Our plan is to record the different experiences across the world. This will create an archive of experiences, passions, emotions and events. We are interested in how students express their on-going experiences. We are creating a living document of our world at this time. In order to show this record, we will have an interactive world map with each school indicated. When the user clicks on the school it goes to that school’s page (within the site) with that school’s experiences.

We will also be working on an interactive documentary that combines all of the experiences together. A truly global experience.

We will continue this project until the pandemic is over.

Thank you for being involved in this project.

How does this project work for the Spring 2021 semester?

4 times during the semester your students will upload micro-documentary projects or vlogs to our Dropbox as either a Youtube or Vimeo link.

The approximate deadlines for each:

February 18
March 18
April 16
May 7

If these dates do not work for you, please let us know and we will make special arrangements for your school.

For Instructors: Once you contact Dr. Cardillo with your interest she will send you 4 Dropbox links with dates and a Dropbox link for releases for each student.

Students are then able to do one of several things:

1) Students can use their mobile phones and create a video blog to submit to our site. Please keep vlogs under 2 minutes.

2) Students can create a project that is more polished with b-roll, interviews (think micro-documentary). Please keep projects around 3 minutes.

3) Supply images with captions to our Instagram #campusrebootstories

5) Post on our Facebook page

We want to make this very MULTImedia.

Once the vlog/project/media is uploaded to our site, Dr.Cardillo and grad students will review it, aggregate the works and post them on the website.

If anything, "out of the ordinary" starts to happen on your campus or in your state/country, please reach out and we will adjust the prompt for your school so that we are sure to capture the important events.

Facebook Page and Instagram

Students are also welcomed to upload photos (with captions) to our Facebook site, or use the hashtag #campusrebootstories on Instagram or send written stories to our email. Those addresses are linked on the website.

Can I See Other Student’s Videos?

Yes, there are two ways that can work:

1) The footage link folders are available to you. The instructor should send Dr. Cardillo an email asking for the dropbox link to folders that hold the footage links. It will be the instructor’s responsibility to get the footage to their students.

2) Wait for it to come up onto the bit.ly/CampusReboot site and download from there. All releases cover the permitted use of all footage.

Release Form:(request release for from Dr. Cardillo)

Every student is required to fill out and sign a release form for the Campus Reboot project. As you will see, there is a place at the top to put your school's name along with the University of Hartford. This will protect all of us.

Students can use a Digital ID signature so there is no need to print it out.

The release form should be emailed to the professor for your records and also forwarded to Susan Cardillo at University of Hartford at the folder that has been set-up, and you can just upload them to Susan’s Dropbox. Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nEJx4rBwZnWWuddHgqU4