With 48 hours of video uploaded every minute and 3 billion videos watched every day, YouTube has come a long way since one of the site’s co-founders, Jawed Karim, uploaded the first video of himself talking about elephants at the zoo almost 7 years ago.
From the world’s largest library of online videos, here are several of the best YouTube channels for librarians.
Source: oedb.org
Dealing With Negative Comments with Greg Rivera — Grovo Expert (by gogrovo)
Greg Rivera of Mishka discusses how the Internet and social media helped ignite, expand and empower the global cult following of his streetwear brand.
Check out Grovo.com and the Expert Series.
Source: youtube.com
Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News
The social blogging site has hired a content executive and a Newsweek writer to document the service and market it to users.
UK Leader Who Discussed Blocking Social Networks Joins Google Plus
David Cameron, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, who made comments in the wake of last month’s nation-wide riots about the possibility of blocking participants in civil unrest from using social media, has joined Google’s new social network, Plus. Joining him this morning were +Ed Miliband and +Nick Clegg (as they are referred to on Google’s site), leaders of the Labor and Liberal Democrat party.
Cameron’s remarks about discussing the possibility of blocking social networks at times of unrest were widely criticized as either a balloon being floated for dictatorial contro, an appeasement of angry critics of social networks or simply heavy-handed. Others said it was simply a matter of putting a widely discussed idea on the table. When the city of San Francisco shut off cell phone service in its transit system in order to prevent organizers of a protest against police brutality from using their mobile devices to organize - that made the whole matter feel much more serious.
Source: readwriteweb.com
Blogging and Tweeting for Education
Jane Hart, the founder of the popular education resource website C4LPT (Centre For Learning & Performance Technologies), keeps a running list of educators who are using blogs and twitter for workplace learning.
Visit her site here.
Jane started the list with her own suggestions, but educators can add their names and contacts as well.
The list is a great resource for keeping track of what educators are doing with social media and online learning.
