Week 16 # 21 Sharing Videos Youtube, Google Vids and more

Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload
and share videos.
Within the past year online video hosting sites have exploded
allowing users to easily upload and share videos on the web.
Among all the web 2.0 players in this area, YouTube is currently
top dog serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing
users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also
embed clips into their own sites easily.Do some searching around
YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find
everything from 1970s TV commercials and 60s music videos to
library dominos and a video made by library school students for
National Library Week. There's also the cult classic
Conan the Librarian. CLA 2006 conference Library Cheer was fun,
too.

See also:
Introducing the Book
Web 2.0
Library 2.0 Manifesto
March of the Librarians
Jack O'Connell Goes Back to School
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 componets of the site that might be
interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: 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.

Discovery Resources:
Other popular video hosting sites:
Yahoo Videos
Google videos
TeacherTube
Jumpcut by Yahoo!Teachers
Others - top video site list

NOTE: Videos, like music downloads, are bandwidth hogs. It is recommended that you complete this exercise during light Internet usage times.