YouTube - Confession Time!

OK..I am almost addicted to YouTube!!!  Oh my goodness, people can create the funniest darn things and post them up there for all the world to see!  Let me tell you about one of them....

Every year on Christmas Eve, my family hosts a come/go Christmas get-together.  Folks come from all around, we have more food than we know what to do with, and the evening ends (for most of the folks) once the fireworks (illegal, of course, but so much fun!) are finished.  HOWEVER, once everyone has gone home, and we've cleaned up the house, our family all gathers round the piano and we sing Christmas carols.  Years ago, I made a booklet that has the words to about 50 songs in there and we just go through and everyone calls out songs, I play them, and we sing until we get tired.  But, our next-to-the-last song of the night, every single year since we started this tradition, is "The Twelve Days of Christmas."  Because there's always 12 or more of us, we all get a "day" and when it's our turn, we must act out that day, as best as we can.  It is downright hilarious and one year, my brother secretly videotaped it and posted it on YouTube.  Of course, the quality is not the best, because the camera was hidden behind his big butt most of the time, but the end result was fantastic!!!The video alone was funny enough, but the comments that viewers posted were even better!!!  Sadly though, I will not tell you how to find it, only that it's there.  Ha ha!!!

However, I will give you the link to one I posted last month as part of the Google Academy for Administrators application.  I did not get in, but it was fun to see mine up on YouTube, even though it's not great at all...obviously, or I would have made it into the academy!  Still, if you want to see it, the link is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzALw84QFEE.  Once again, not top-quality, but for my first attempt, it'll do.

I see huge potential for electronic book trailers....look at what a movie trailer can do...why not harness that power and use it for the good of books!!!!  If I had my wish, I'd love for all the elementary librarians to take ONE of the 2010/2011 TBA nominees and make a 1 - 2 minute electronic book trailer about it (I'd take #20 so they could all be done) and then we'd make a page for them to be accessed started in the fall of 2010.  What do y'all say??? 

~kiera