YouTube is an online video sharing website that allows the users to share, rate, comment on, tag, and watch. It's covering just about every topic you can imagine, ranging from very amateur to professionally produced.
Watch this video that shows a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson.
Your task
Have a look around YouTube and see if you can find some interesting videos about libraries or librarians, or perhaps new web technologies.
YouTube makes it easy to do a search, and then to find similar videos to one you have already watched.
You may find a funny video clip or maybe something more informative.
Blog about your experience with YouTube.
Optional Activity: Embed a YouTube video into your blog post
Blogger
- Find a video you want to post about
- Copy the 'Embed' code for the video
- Log into Blogger
- Click on New Post
- Give your post a title and some text etc
- Click on the Edit HTML tab (top right hand side of your Post toolbar)
- Paste in the embed code in the position where you'd like the video to be placed
- Click Publish Post
Wordpress
- Find a video you want to post about
- Copy the URL of the video
- Log into Wordpress
- Click on Write
- Give your post a title and some text etc
- On the post toolbar, there is an 'Add media' section.
- Click on the 'Add video' icon (looks like a strip of film)
- Paste the youtube url into the field provided
- Click 'Insert into Post'
- Publish your post
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