How about YouTube?

This was a great exercise for me. As a mother I have a very paranoid vision of what YouTube is. My children are not allowed on YouTube, but every once in a while they come home and have a particular video that they've heard about at school. So then we go together and find out what it's all about. So, until today that summed up my YouTube experience. I still have some concerns, for example I couldn't find a way to determine whether a video was appropriate or not without actually watching it. All of the videos I saw were fine, but how can you tell without making a mistake? Also, unless you know exactly what you're looking for the search process can be extensive. So, with that out of the way, I was pleasantly surprised. I watched a very informative piece about the lack of clean water in Africa. I also found several videos about teaching reading, books being read, author interviews and author readings. I had no idea there were so many options within YouTube. One other drawback I noticed was that some of the videos aren't very well done. In using clips, as a librarian, you would just have to make sure everything was carefully checked before hand. I chose the video below because, as a librarian, I thought it was funny. I also thought it might be a clip I could use when introducing book care at the beginning of the year.