You Can YouTube

Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from 1970s TV commercials to library dominos. There's also an American Libraries' takeoff of Magnum PI: Magnum, A.L. Of course, like any free site you’ll also find a lot of stuff not worth watching too. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore and see for yourself what the site has to offer. :).  (Hint, if you have a slower internet connection, or if a video just seems to stop a lot, you can click on the pause button and let the video download before you attempt to watch it.)

Some videos you won't want to miss are from our very own Crazy Library Lady:

Discovery Exercise:

1. Explore YouTube & find a video worth adding as an entry in your blog.

2. Your assignment for this week is to create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the site and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?

OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog as we did with the Nancy Pearl video above using the copy and paste code for the for "Embeddable Player.” Note: you'll need to use Blogger's Edit HTML tab when pasting this code.

Other popular video hosting sites:

• Yahoo Videos
• Google videos - it's hard to say how much longer Google will keep it's video site now that it owns YouTube.
• If you're looking for something with a slightly more, intellectual bent, you might want to check out Big Think.

NOTE: Videos, like music downloads, are bandwidth hogs. It is recommended that you complete this exercise during light internet usage times.

Lesson 8a: Tagging & Social bookmarking

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