#20 You Tube

I watched the following videos
Shout It Out For Your Library- A campaign to keep libraries open targeted to the New York City Library and sponsored by celebrities such a Bette Midler, Amy Tan, and Jeff Daniels. This video was geared more to Public Libraries but is great for advocacy.

A Vision of Students Today- The impact of technology on students today. This video gives facts about the amount of technology ie: facebook, Google Docs, cell phones, that students use every day. Does this prepare them for the future? This is an excellent video. It features college students but would be great for Academic Libraries or even to show to High School libraries.
A Vision of K-12 Students- same concept only the video uses younger students. This is a great video to show teachers in a K-12 school.

Book Trailers- I typed in YA book trailer and got alot of results. I watched Cynthia Leitch Smith's Eternal and Neil Gaiman's Graveyard. These really help promote reading to students. We can also use them as examples for students to create their own book trailer on a book they've read.

I really enjoyed this alot and found videos that I will use with my students and faculty. The videos I watched were effective and all of them can promote the use of the library either through reading books or promoting information literacy. The K-12video on technology will be perfect to show the faculty during my orientation.

You Tube is a great resource for my middle school library. I will use it more this upcoming year.