Thing #20 YouTube

Experimenting with YouTube has been fun, and could be a lot more fun if I had more time.
I looked at the slow mo butterfly emerging from its pupae stage; Taratella music clip; 60s music x 4, UHF Conan the Librarian (spare us the bully!), a chap whose head was trapped inside his cell phone! Dan the Librarian (comedy sketch, unfunny); an animated movie - simplified - about how taxes are collected and distributed in USA; the evolution of dance (very good); and my favourite - Free hugs (in Sydney).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AdQo1qBy1E

Web 2.0 (excellent) is a recommended view on the developing technologies we are learning about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4

Having browsed YouTube before I discovered the ALA conference this year is in New Orleans and so I went to have a look at the French Quater. Wish I was there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiljk4MemVM

For the purposes of library applications we still have a long way to go but perhaps it could apply as instructional media. Savvy young 20-somethings who have made animated movies, been born to compute and do wonders with mobile phones are the likeliest to produce such media.

Blogger's 'Edit HTML' did not perform the miracle of producing the YouTube products for me in this blog. Can't believe it's the browser's fault!