There are just so many uses for videos, I was pleased to see the oral history video of Olive Riley. I know that the documentry that they made about her visit to Broken Hill was shown on the ABC a few years ago, and is available on DVD (or was), but having it on the net makes it available to so many people. How much history is out there that can be published like this? Heaps and it is a fun and bite size way of getting the information out there.
Orientation via YouTube? Good idea, but one thing that never changes? The type of video that they make for the orientations......sooooo boring! Althought the library orientation one wasn't so bad :o) but some of the similar videos take you back in a time warp into the days of really really bad orientation videos.
One thing I do like about YouTube and Google Videos is that they give you other suggestions that you can check out at your lesiure if you are still looking for more! Ah the information age...so much information, so little time :oD
I'd love to see more oral history videos posted, reading or listening to them is interesting, but actually being able to see the person who is telling their story and following them through the steps of their story just brings it to life that much more!
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