Monday, May 10, 2010

Week #8 Flickr & YouTube

Comment on the quality, entertainment value, or usefulness of the content on these sites.

Well Youtube is highly entertaining. I love Book trailers and spend a lot of time watching those on Youtube. I also have used Youtube for songs and rhymes for Parent Child Mother Goose so there is for sure a lot of useful content on there too.

Flickr really helped me in a lot of ways in my first few months as a new librarian. Those first few months can be overwhelming as you try and figure out everything about your position, the system you work in, your co-workers etc. In those first few months while I was still figuring things out I turned to Flickr to help me with the little things, so that I could focus on the big things. One incredibly helpful thing was using Flickr to help me come up with display ideas for both my kids and teen displays. It seems like a small simple thing, but when you are trying to take in a lot sometimes being creative and coming up with original ideas or being creative is the furthest thing from you mind, especially if you aren’t especially creative like myself. It is these little things that make sites like Flickr incredibly helpful and almost an invisible network for people with common interests or the same profession.

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