One of those cloaks of invisibility was recently draped in a great AHA! moment, when a teacher came to the library asking if I could find a full-length version of the President Obama/Anderson Cooper town hall meeting that had aired the night before. He had spent nearly an hour looking online, and his efforts only led him to 4 and 5 minute cuts that were housed on CNN, Fox News, Yahoo News, YouTube, etc... As a last-ditch effort, he came my way and asked if I knew how to access this video. He had seen something in the town hall event that the major news desks just weren’t reporting in their small clips, and he wanted to share it with his AP History students the next class period.
Success! Full-Length video found. This school year, we became a Google Apps for Ed school. Because of this, we have a “special” YouTube portal that can be accessed through our school Google account. It is not widely known that opening YouTube in this manner gives users much more content that can be used for educational purposes. Within a few minutes said teacher was projecting the portion of the town hall meeting that was important to his instruction. Just to double check, however, I did go out and access YouTube in the conventional way. Sure enough, there was nothing there.
Behind the scenes, librarians give to the educational process in countless ways. Over time these tiny little contributions add up and make our role so important to the goal of providing the best education we can for our students.
Behind the scenes, librarians give to the educational process in countless ways. Over time these tiny little contributions add up and make our role so important to the goal of providing the best education we can for our students.
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