Thing 20, Week 9

Ah, YouTube. Of course, I'm pretty familiar with this tool as almost every student who comes into the library wants to show me their favorite video of the day. I'll admit I get pretty hooked on them as well. I had already seen "Introducing the Book" (which I think is hysterical) and Web 2.0. "Library 2.0 Manifesto" and "March of the Librarians" were cute but not award winning. I need to remember to us "Introducing the Book" during a teacher in-service when we are talking technology integration. I had forgotten about "Conan: the Librarian", another good one to use.

I had to check out the "help" section on YouTube to get straight how to embed the player but once I saw the obvious (duh, dani), it was pretty easy to do and looks good on the blog. I found a teaser trailer for "Breaking Dawn", the fourth book in the Twilight series, which just came out last week. Being able to find movie type trailers for books that are popular with young adults will be great additions for reading promotion on our library web page and for book talks in the library. I've also added a video from "School Tube" which I have encouraged my faculty members to use for both themselves and students to use to upload videos for classroom purposes although I don't have anything against YouTube, but this allows other educators to share in the wealth. This particular video is fairly extensive and is a presentation that was used for instruction on information literacy with high school students. I do think that one of the drawbacks to YouTube is all the "stuff" one must sort through in order to get to anything worth watching in terms of educational purposes.