I am no stranger to YouTube-my husband and I have explored this site to find info about music, vacation spots, kayaking and weird and wacky stuff he's heard about on NPR Radio while traveling home from work in downtown Grand Rapids.
Probably one of the funniest we've watched was a demonstration of a person using a Neti Pot. This is something that is shaped like a genie lamp. You fill it with warm salt water and insert the spout into one of your nostrils to gently run water through your nasal passages. It's supposed to help with a cold or sinus problems. Seeing was believing, so he tried it the next time he had a sinus congestion, but instead, he tried it with one of my plant watering cans. Now, that one should have been on YouTube!
I looked up one that he had laughed at early showing a t-shirt folding machine. He had joked that he would make up one to give to each of our "messy" college sons. It actually was pretty clever! Here is the site on "How to Fold Like a Pro": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ7Lawiw84g
My son and husband also loaded their own video of themselves playing guitar that they sent the link to all the grandparents-their comment-"I guess we like music with lyrics better . . ."
Could this have far-reaching effects in the library? Of course . . . some people learn better by not just reading about a process; they learn by viewing a demonstration-like an instructional video you don't have to rent or have equipment to run it on. Perhaps someday we could conduct whole classes that are led by not a person in 3-D, but on a computer screen, demonstrating how to knit, make fudge, grout bathroom tile, etc.
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