Week 9, Thing 20: You Tube

I never really checked out a lot of stuff on You Tube. My biggest impression of it was as a wasteland for bizarre video clips and inane posts from teens who filmed themselves fighting or punking someone. I was pleasantly surprised. There's some pretty cool stuff on there, especially for someone with my semi-twisted sense of humor.

I really enjoyed the recommended videos. My favorite was "March of the Librarians", although it's truly bizarre how so many librarians look so similar.

I found this video of a career movie from 1946 or 1947 on choosing the profession of Librarian. It is crazy fun. The wildest part is seeing all the things that had to be done by hand and how long it took. Some things are still the same though. There's a student who asks for a book but can't remember the author or title but does remember the subject and that it's blue. Who among us hasn't had that happen?



For a while, we could only view videos from TeacherTube. An Apple trainer showed us this one entitled "When I become a Teacher". I love it.



I couldn't remember the name of it while composing this blog and was having a hard time with my search, especially on youtube. Just putting in the search term teacher resulted in some very raunchy videos. (Not that I watched them, the titles were enough for me.)

I enjoyed this exercise and will probably view and use more videos in the future.