by Patsy Divver

It used to be that only my students were ‘hooked’ on YouTube. Now, I’m getting emails from staff, friends and family, all sending their latest find on this site. So why should I be surprised to find that there was a suggestion on our MSLA listserv?

From library teacher Linda Coviello (and School Library Journal’s twitter) is the humorous and fun, “I am A Librarian”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SvdkP573ak

Then, as I was working on a Moodle project, I came across several other entries that were fun AND related to library work, such as “How NOT to do Powerpoints”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cagxPlVqrtM

Also – for many of us who are plagued with plagiarism questions and copyright concerns, check out, “A Fair(y) Use Tale”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cagxPlVqrtM

So…I’m hooked. There are some very creative and fun clips to capture student interest (and appeal to teachers, too! Check out “Teacher Tube”, as well). Have you found some YouTubes that You Use? Send them along and we’ll publish them in the next Forum.

Patsy Divver is Library Teacher at the Millis Senior/Middle School and is also co-Editor of the MSLA Forum