Friday, March 14, 2008

YouTube

Forgot to add comments about likes and dislikes:

  • Lots of goofy, amateur, waste-of-my-time videos.
    Like seeing some music videos from the past, (Mary J Blige & U-2 on "One)
  • The variety of subject matter is incredible.
  • I would prefer searching for my own videos than have people email me links to what they think I would appreciate.
  • I believe the best use so far for me has been seeing clips from previous performances of "Once on this Island". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHAquaNe6UY This is a musical (Tony award winner) which Susan Rabideau at UW-Fox Valley is directing this spring. I play a very small role, Madame Armand, but it helped me to understand the story of Ti Moune and how the staging has been done by other theatre groups.

YouTube for Libraries

I believe there is something to be said for using filming programming in libraries and uploading it to the Internet.

Patrons who missed a computer class may be interested in looking at a PPT online, but a moving visual re-creates the class more realistically, I think.

Such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrYesGi1v8&feature=related

YouTube

I will try to embed a Youtube of Gusty Spence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGU_FPN2ac.

ScreenCasting

I followed the instruction at Screen-Cast-O-Matic to create a screencast of a few scenes from Northern Ireland in addition to a couple of photos of Gusty Spence. Somehow the instructions from the website "sneaked their way in" to my cast. Here's the link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cje2i5VI6

Some rather boring visual.....