Online video hosting sites allow users to easily to upload and share videos on the web. Among all the web 2.0 players in this area, YouTube is the most popular allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites easily.
Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from
Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from
- Clips explaining Web 2.0: What is Web 2.0? and an interesting visual/music presentation called Web 2.0 the machine is us/ing us
Like any free site you’ll also find a lot not worth watching, but take some time to explore.
Discovery Exercise:
- Explore YouTube
- Explore the educational alternatives to YouTube - TeacherTube or Science Hack
- Find a video worth adding as an entry in your blog. Create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the sites and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog using the copy and paste code for the for "Embeddable Player.” Note: you'll need to use Blogger's Edit HTML tab when pasting this code.
Other popular video hosting sites include:
NOTE: Videos, like music downloads, are bandwidth hogs. You may have some trouble playing long clips
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