Thing 18~You Tube

The above video was done by the Detroit Lakes High School Advance Public Speaking Class. The class consists of about 20 students who are responsible for videoing and editing local happenings and educational programs. The videos are then shown on a local network channel, as well as, aired during Laker Time on Friday mornings. This video is about 30 seconds in length and was placed on YouTube by Kent Mollberg, the Media Specialist.

It took some trial and error to get the video uploaded in the right spot. Would have worked better had I read the directions that were provided versus trying to figure it out on my own.

Prior to working on this thing, I had spent very little to almost no time on YouTube. I was surprised to find local videos put out by our own Media Specialist and students in our district. I don’t know that I will spend much time on YouTube after completing this thing but it has been a lot of fun to look at the recommended videos. I really like the video under library ads. It probably wouldn’t encourage students to read but it was overall very entertaining. It would be neat to have some of these videos made in our library and aired on Laker Live.

The first search I did was Library. I came up with a video called Upskirt Spy Cam Panties down in the library. I knew there were inappropriate videos on there; I just didn’t think my first search would come up with the number one video showing underwear. So I refined my search to Library 2.0 and watched some of the videos and changed in other libraries.

YouTube is widely used in our school. Students spend their study hall and open hours viewing YouTube videos. Most of the time they are watching sports videos, television shows, and anything where someone is doing something stupid. Since the school has unblocked YouTube, students are spending more time in the Media Center during lunchtime.

There are many educational videos for classrooms to use with their curriculum. However, there are many videos that are inappropriate for students to view. I could see classroom teachers using YouTube with a presentation they have set up. I don’t know that any teachers in the high school use YouTube in their classroom presentations but it would be really interesting to find out.