Youtube is one of my favorite sites. I can sit around all day watching funny videos of people falling or pulling pranks. You can find ANYTHING on Youtube. I use the site for mostly entertainment purposes, but teachers can find all kinds of educational videos on Youtube also.
I chose to post "Kid President" because sometimes you just need an extra boost to enjoy the next hour of class, or to make it through a stressful week. This would be a good video to play to my students during midterms and finals. I like how much Youtube has to offer in terms of the quantity of videos, but the quality of a lot of videos is poor especially in content. There are very nasty and vulgar things on Youtube which is why it was blocked from CMCSS computers. I am not sure if Youtube is still blocked, but there are other sites you can watch videos from that edit the content better.
There are a lot of interesting components of Youtube that could be applied to the Library Website. One being that after you search for a video using the title or key words, similar videos of similar content come up on the side. So once you finish watching the original video you searched for, you can move right on to the next video in sequence. Most library pages do that with articles.
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