Just about two years ago, Google bought a fairly new social networking site called YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars. Yep, $1.65 billion. Online video hosting websites have exploded in the past year allowed users to easily upload and share videos. YouTube is definitely the top dog in the video area, with users playing more than 100 million videos a day! (Holy cow!) YouTube also allows users to embed clips easily into their own sites.
Do some searching around YouTube and see what you can find. Be forewarned: it can be addicitive! You will find everything from 1970s commercials to library workout videos to Jonathan and his appreciation for turtles. Of course, like most of the internet you will also come across things that just aren’t worth watching. But still explore and discover what YouTube has to offer!
Discovery Exercise:
- Explore YouTube and find a video worth sharing as an entry on your blog.
- 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? Do you have many ideas about how these features might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog using the copy and past code for the “Emdebbable player: Note: You will need to use Blogger’s Edit HTML tab when pasting this code.
I first saw this a couple of years ago, when I was on the Helpdesk at Westport PL. So true, so true!
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