Week 7 - Video Sites

I totally luuuurrrvvvvve YouTube. I rate it highly as having both entertainment and educational value. I frequently use it to show my kids all kinds of things they are curious about: anything from polar bears to sumo wrestling to Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk. I personally use Youtube a lot to watch music and comedy.

I like it's layout and I will sometimes watch things featured on the homepage. I like the fact that similar clips are suggested as you look at a particular video. I generally avoid reading people's comments as, for some reason, people that comment on YouTube manage to say the dumbest most inane things.

Whangarei Libraries could use embedded video on its website in the following ways:

• Tutorials and guides e.g. tour of the library, how to search the catalogue
  
• Promote upcoming events such as funtimes by showing a video of them
  
• Record events that happen in the library (e.g. school holiday programmes, funtimes, festive days, cultural events) so people can view what happened in the library even if they weren't there.

Now, onto more serious matters. Here is a clip from YouTube that I find particularly worthwhile. I think that if the Library were to take heed of this educational video, then all things (including Library 2.0) would go very smoothly indeed. I look forward to receiving your comments.