Project Play, Semester 2, Week 9, YouTube

HELP!
I followed instructions (code) from the help center on YouTube but I don't think it works to make the link clickable automatically. I got an error message from blogger.

YouTube Shelties at play

This is a YouTube video on Shelties playing with a sprinkler. I don't have a sprinkler system in my yard but any time I've turned on the hose or a stand-alone sprinkler my Sheltie starts barking and running around it like crazy. Just what the Sheltie Linus does on YouTube. And 3,530 views or viewers - not sure how they count - looked at Linus before me.

Endlessly fascinating -- what I like and don't like about YouTube! Just like searching the Web, Google, etc. before you know it, it's an hour later than you thought. What I do like is learning about YouTube as a research tool - I didn't know you could find famous speeches from history. The only YouTube I'd seen previous to today was excerpts on TV, which were always silly examples.

I did look at the Harper College Library tour - great fun - and I went to a meeting recently where somebody asked the audience if anyone wanted a pillow and I didn't get the joke at the time!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought the Allen Co. PL Genealogy Center tours were good too and had more viewers than individual speakers by far.

Week 9 Project Play, Semester 1

Hard to believe it's over. Looking forward to Semester 2.
My thoughts about the wikis I looked at: I was surprised that the wikis look so formal (design/layout) -- the library wikis that were suggested.

I do see many ways that wikis could be used. As I mentioned in my post summing up Project Play. Wikis were mentioned at a WLA leadership meeting in which it was suggested that units could create wikis. It felt great to know that would be something I could tackle.

I am considering using a wiki for a page on the OPL website. Right now it's a group of links and text done in Word. It's difficult to update. My other thought would be del.icio. us but the webpage is for an FVTC class and it would be interesting to allow the students and instructor add additional information.

I can also see using this as a planning tool within my dept. We all work different schedules so it is difficult to plan projects. We end up with emails that some people forget to hit "reply all" or serial conversations.