Many of these questions are about the physical setup of the rooms within the hall. A few years ago, we discovered that many students were coming to our campus having never actually seen the residence hall rooms they had been assigned to. Clearly, this was a problem that we needed to address.
Upon the suggestion of one of our Resident Assistants, we embarked on a journey of creating virtual tours of each of our five residential areas. This RA (Mr. Sergey Blyakhor) was the director, videographer, and driving force behind the video tours that were produced for our department. Although the videos are pretty amateur, they have been instrumental tools for us.
f your residence life department doesn’t already have video tours of the residence halls, I would highly recommend them. As you will see in our video below, the video tour doesn’t need to be a very polished one and laborious process. It can be a project for some of your student leaders in the residence hall community or students in your media/video department. No matter who is taking the lead on the project, I would recommend working closely with your admissions office in the production of such a video.
Nowadays it appears that everyone is on Facebook and Twitter, including residence life departments from all of our institutions. These are great venues for us to share video tours of our halls.
I spent some time recently on YouTube viewing some pretty high-quality video tours of residence halls from campuses across the country. While there are many, these are two of my favorites. They are much more polished and professional than the video I posted above:
Do you have video tours for your residence halls? Share links in the comment section.
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