How much do you want to make a bet that this kid is from Minnesota?
Too cute!
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
You Go Girl!
With over 11 million views on YouTube, Susan Boyle has become a very unlikely sensation. Her performance on Britain's Got Talent brought down the house and scored an amazing three "yes" votes from the judges. Here are some lessons to learn from this:
- Don't judge a book by it's cover. It is obvious the audience and judges wrote her off before she even started to sing.
- Susan had a dream and went for it.
- Susan said her performance was a tribute to her mom, who she had cared for and is recently deceased, and what a tribute it was! Moms rule!
- Middle-aged women rock!
Susan definitely has my vote...you go girl!
To keep the YouTube views rising, click on the link below. Watching this video for the first time gave me goosebumps. It is truly amazing!
The CBS Early Show has a great follow up interview with Ms. Boyle. Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Audio from YouTube Video
Quite a few of the students working on iMovie projects today wanted to use just the audio from a YouTube video. At home this evening, I successfully used vixy.net to extract the audio from a YouTube video and save it as an MP3. Then, since I had so much fun with the last post, I created an audio "movie" in Windows Movie Maker to embed in this post. If this works, it would be the same process to add this type of audio into iMovie.
Here's my favorite Hannah Montana fan!
Here's my favorite Hannah Montana fan!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
YouTube Channels
At the MEMO East Central Region Spring Meeting last night, the guest speaker was LeAnn Suchy, a librarian from St. Ben's/St. John's (and also my 23 Things coach!). She told us about YouTube Channels. National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and the Associated Press all have videos on YouTube Channels. When I checked today, National Geographic had 496 videos on YouTube. Here is one I found on the YouTube Nat Geo channel entitled "What is a Dino Mummy?" Enjoy!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Thing 18 - YouTube and Conclusion
Wow! I didn't know that YouTube was started by a St. Paul Central High School grad. That's a fun Minnesota fact!
The jury is still out with me as to the educational value of YouTube. I like exploring YouTube just like everyone else...especially the funny videos and for my Bon Jovi fix. However, my desk is in the computer lab and YouTube and on-line gaming has pretty much taken over most of the time students spend in the computer lab, even during classtime. This past Thursday, I had a girl in the lab, with an English class They were there to do research for a class assignment. However, this girl played the funny and cute baby Charlie YouTube video (shown here), over and over again...I'm talking ALL hour. I told her to turn the volume down, and even the student sitting next to her said something, but her and her friends just kept playing it and laughing and laughing. Unfortunately, the teacher didn't seem to mind and even congratulated the class for their hard work at the end of the hour. At times like this, I wish our school blocked YouTube!
On a more positive note, our Media Specialist uses some library-related YouTube videos (I Want to Be a Librarian) during our 9th grade library orientation. I also liked the WSU library tour on YouTube (the link was part of this Thing) and think that this might be a project we could work on with our Media Team. Our Media Specialist also shows timely YouTube videos throughout the day, once in a while, i.e.: Super Bowl commercials and things that will catch the kids' attention.
As for the other YouTube links in this Thing, who do you suppose filed the books after the Library Dominoes? And, be honest, who amongst us hasn't secretly thought like Conan the Librarian when it comes to overdue books...very funny!
The jury is still out with me as to the educational value of YouTube. I like exploring YouTube just like everyone else...especially the funny videos and for my Bon Jovi fix. However, my desk is in the computer lab and YouTube and on-line gaming has pretty much taken over most of the time students spend in the computer lab, even during classtime. This past Thursday, I had a girl in the lab, with an English class They were there to do research for a class assignment. However, this girl played the funny and cute baby Charlie YouTube video (shown here), over and over again...I'm talking ALL hour. I told her to turn the volume down, and even the student sitting next to her said something, but her and her friends just kept playing it and laughing and laughing. Unfortunately, the teacher didn't seem to mind and even congratulated the class for their hard work at the end of the hour. At times like this, I wish our school blocked YouTube!
On a more positive note, our Media Specialist uses some library-related YouTube videos (I Want to Be a Librarian) during our 9th grade library orientation. I also liked the WSU library tour on YouTube (the link was part of this Thing) and think that this might be a project we could work on with our Media Team. Our Media Specialist also shows timely YouTube videos throughout the day, once in a while, i.e.: Super Bowl commercials and things that will catch the kids' attention.
As for the other YouTube links in this Thing, who do you suppose filed the books after the Library Dominoes? And, be honest, who amongst us hasn't secretly thought like Conan the Librarian when it comes to overdue books...very funny!
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