We've already used YouTube to access some videos in some of our previous exercises. Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from 1970s TV commercials to instructional videos to skateboarding dogs. You can also find library dominos, Super Librarian, a day in the life of a library, and other library related videos. Of course, like any free site you’ll also find a lot stuff not worth watching too. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore and see for yourself what the site has too offer.
Discovery Exercise
- Explore YouTube & find a video worth adding as an entry in 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? Can you see any features or components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites? Be sure to include a link to the video you selected. Or, if you're up to a challenge, try placing the video inside your blog 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.
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A message from Patty:
For all you Learning 2.0 YouTubers, I’m on YouTube. Murfreesboro poet and Linebaugh patron Darren Rankins asked me to read his poetry and talk a little about his career as a poet. He put me in a video with some other local people reading his poetry.
If you want to see this, check out www.youtube.com/darrendbr. The video title is Friends of (Poet) Darren B. Rankins Recites.
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