Tou, Too, Can YouTube
This was supposed to be an easy “Thing”, and it was, but it took forever. As soon as I began to look for videos worth posting here… guess what happened? Too many videos are worth posting. So I decided to look for one relevant to teachers, something different, when I came across the No Child Left Behind debate. Interesting stuff… The divide is obvious and it seems to me that more and more people don’t like the original law. But it is a law, who cares if you like it or not? Well, apparently it is up for reauthorization. The President is definitely looking into the law to at least adjust it and hopefully make it better. Since I saw so many opinions, many of which I couldn’t fully fallow, I chose to go with our President’s opinion about the role of the federal government in enforcing this law: Barack Obama on No Child Left Behind
As I have mentioned before in my blogs, I use YouTube all the time, for songs, recipies, expert advice, you name it. I like that YouTube is open to anyone, experts and novices, and we, the public, are the ones who decide who is the expert and who is not. I like that the product goes straight from the creator to the consumer, without a middle man to become rich. So many new people creating can only generate the best. Here is, in my opinion, an example of a young couple with a brilliant future thanks to YouTube (and their art of course!): Pomplamoose Music
Something that I would find useful to have in my library website is ratings, comments and the counters (a visual display of how many people access the video). I would change the way YouTube reports the number of hits; I would divide the hits by category. For example, how many people watch the whole video, how many people watch halve of it, one quarter etc. This would give a better idea about the quality of the video. Some people start the video with some sort of hook, a false or deceiving start, and then they change to something completely different. A “Category Counter” will prevent such videos to succeed in their deceiving efforts.
About Taylor’s Mali video: Powerful thing! I would show it to my students if it wasn’t for the “middle finger” and one more word. I watched all the videos I could find from him. Another one I liked was: Totally like whatever, you know?
I agree with Dr. Wall that there is a lot of unwelcomed stuff, a lot of trash in YouTube. This site is definitely NOT for kids. Unfortunately many parents don’t realize this.
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