Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Thing 18

You Tube and Video Sharing websites

Within the past few years, online video sharing and hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily to upload and share videos on the web. Among all the web 2.0 players in this area, YouTube is currently top dog serving up more than 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites.

Do some searching around YouTube and see what the site has to offer. You’ll find everything from 1970s TV commercials and music videos from the 80s (you've just been rickroll'd, in a way) to How to make an Origami Crane and the viral video rant United Breaks Guitars here. Of course, like any free site, you’ll also find a lot stuff not worth watching too. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore and see for yourself what the site has too offer. :)

  1. Explore YouTube and create an account
  2. Find a video worth adding as an entry in your blog.
  3. Try placing the video inside your blog by using copy and paste to copy the “Embed” code. This is what I do to embed all the videos you see here on the 23 Things blog. It’s easy!! Just cut and paste the embeddable code from YouTube. Look for the "Embed Code" text. Try placing it by using bloggers "edit HTML" tab, rather than the "compose" tab.
  4. Consider how you tube could used at LAC. Training (of staff or clients) videos? marketing? Resource discovery?

Further exploration:
Check out You Tube's Test Tube, a place where new ideas are being tried and experimented with, for examples have a look at Leanback

Other video hosting sites:

Animoto "Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique
video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy."
Sign up for a free account and play around with it. Use 7-or 8 photos, add some music and you have an interesting little presentation

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3 comments:

  1. webnikNovember 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    Danger zone - not the Old Spice guy!! I love the library parody - So funny! The problem with YouTube is that it is so easy to get addicted and then it becomes a time waster. But it can be useful. I have used it to help me study the music we are learning in our choir. Like this fantastic interpretation of Mozart's coronation Mass at St. Peter's in Rome (one of my fave's!):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhKWwoAuuC8

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  2. Seahorse admirerDecember 9, 2010 at 8:23 AM

    Some clips do not seem to have an embedded code to copy and paste.....I was trying to copy some cake decorating ones and could not.....no code to be found.....

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  3. KayZewDecember 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    Love the old spice guy commercials, and the scholar takeoff. Thanks.

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