Posts Apr 012007
I gave a half hour presentation at MPOW about YouTube and Libraries.
I spent about 5 minutes at the start looking at what made it a social site:
- Ratings
- Video Responses
- Profiles
- Goups
- Community tab
- Comments
- Most linked, most viewed etc.
- Citizen journalism and everyday folk
- Copyright violations – take don’t ask
- Favourites
- Playlists
I then played clips that illustrated these uses:
- Library promotion
- Library events
- Information literacy
- For librarians – new ideas
- For librarians – staff development
- Libraries in the news
- Library recruitment
- To remind us just how far we’ve come.
Here’s the wiki page where I embedded the clips, YouTube and Libraries.
Below is the only one I played twice. Prizes if you can view it only once and work out why Fabio is in it.
Embedded video: Calgary Public Library’s Storytime clip
Wish I could have attended your presentation Kathryn. It sounds fascinating.
It was fun. And a chance to throw in some L2 propaganda. Laura Cohen’s “2.0 manifesto for librarians” was the only one I played in full. Partly for the content – well mainly for the content – but also to point out the simplicity and give an introduction to mashups.