I have always thought youTube was just for entertainment and thus never really investigated it. Oh I would play the clips that were sent to me, but I never searched anything out on the site itself. MY GOODNESS! I just looked at a 55 min lecture on hypertension, (the first few minutes), and viewed a clip on echocardiograms...which looked just like the one I had done yesterday! I can see tremendous use for these videos in an academic setting. Beginning with a library tour, designed by students for students, and continuing on to physical assessment videos, ascultation and so much more. I'm sure young folks are well aware of the potential and use of YouTube, but I bet their professors are fairly clueless. I do wonder where all the videos come from and the production and copyright aspects, but that is for another discussion.
I have been utilizing podcasts for a couple of years, and developed a podcasting webpage for our library. It is just a simple linkage to health related podcasts. I am trying to finish a podcast tour for our library, but now I'm wondering if a video clip would be better. I love the commoncraft videos about social networking tools, and have embedded one on a wiki I made. It seems these tools strive to make themselves as interactive with other types of web 2.0 as possible, facilitating transferring of data from one venue to another. The ease is ridiculous. Podcasts could easily be used as instructional tools embedded on our database page for example.
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