Videos
Lately I have viewed several videos that I wanted to share with the teachers and administration at my school. Unfortunately the majority of these are only available from sites like YouTube. Even with my override password for our state filters, these simply don’t show properly. Another problem is that some videos are posted, are overwhelmingly popular, and then disappear. Perfect example of this is the skit “Introducing the Book” which was originally written in Norwegian. A version with English captions was posted on YouTube, received over 1 million viewings, and then disappeared. Read about the controversy here. I am sad because I wanted to share it with my technicians and teachers.
Today I found a video that was worth showing to my third graders who suffer from springitis each year and suddenly forget how to open books and that they have rich resources inside. (They seem to become magnetically attracted to the computers for all answers even when their friends race them. )Take a look at Library Stuff’s posting of a video sent in by Steven Reed and his students - Library Ninja!
