YouTube is fun. It is entertaining. I especially liked the YouTube video "Tour the Harper College Library" listed on Project Play and in my own search, the video "The L-Team" which is a take on the A-Team. Of course, who can forget the "Conan the Librarian" clip from UHF?
Videos on YouTube are either very good or very very bad... but they are homemade videos made by regular people and not necessarily professional actors. My spouse recently got an account for YouTube. I will keep to my current 5 email addresses, so if I want to use the account, I will use his. I think that for fun, librarians can have fun watching librarian related clips on YouTube, and it can be used for all ages by libraries for promoting services or teaching, or even giving a tour of the library.
I do like the idea of having contests for library patrons and using YouTube as the format. All ages are using it. YouTube is a fun way to teach something simple, if you want something a little more fun to watch than a screencast, if you already have a way to record the picture and sound, such as with a camera, phone, or camcorder.
Videos on YouTube are either very good or very very bad... but they are homemade videos made by regular people and not necessarily professional actors. My spouse recently got an account for YouTube. I will keep to my current 5 email addresses, so if I want to use the account, I will use his. I think that for fun, librarians can have fun watching librarian related clips on YouTube, and it can be used for all ages by libraries for promoting services or teaching, or even giving a tour of the library.
I do like the idea of having contests for library patrons and using YouTube as the format. All ages are using it. YouTube is a fun way to teach something simple, if you want something a little more fun to watch than a screencast, if you already have a way to record the picture and sound, such as with a camera, phone, or camcorder.
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Hi sskLibrarian,
Thanks for the L-Team video link - that's one I hadn't seen before. Very cool!
Great comments and ideas on using YouTube in libraries. If your library creates anything for YouTube be sure and let me know!
Keep on playing!
Jean
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