How to search at youtube?



Thanks for your question: "Can we search for a movie if it's not on the list?"

Every page at youtube has a Search Box up the top.
Look at the top of the page for the search box.





After you search you can "Filter" or narrow the search with the Filter button.

So, what have you learned?

Thanks so much to all you brave and wonderful people in the Social Media Course at Thomastown Library*. It's been great working with you all.

Are you feeling more confident than before? Please do this short survey to tell us how you feel.

Twitter in Plain English

A crowd called "Common Craft" makes these informative videos about social media, for example this one on Twitter. What do you think?

How to make a new email address at gmail

Don't have an email address yet? There are many places you can get a free email address, including google or gmail. Here's a help file to create your own gmail account (also known as google account):

[Link to PDF document here.]

Make your own avatar

Get a photo of yourself and make it into an avatar (cartoon figure), eg using one of these avatar generators:

• the South Park avatar maker ,
• face your manga,
• befunky(start with your own photo),
• digibody's caricature maker,
• Digimi from Gizmos studio, or
• Voki for a speaking avatar.

From facebook to "blogging"

Hello to all the wonderful people in the Thomastown Social Media group.

"Social Media" refers to a lot of different sites, including:

• facebook
• twitter (social networking in 140 characters)
• google plus (social networking)
• linked in (networking for jobs & careers)
• pinterest (pin-boards)

As well as these big sites, many other sites have social "built in", for example:

• youtube (video)
• flickr (photos)
• instagram (photos - mobile only)
• tumblr (blog - mainly photos)

Before all of these sites, there was "blogging". This site is a blog. 

• A blog is like a diary. 
• The word comes from web-log. 
• "Log" is another word for diary, or journal. 
• (For example the "Captain's Log".)

You can publish photos, videos, sound files and more in your blog. And people can add comments.

Have a look at some of these blogs (list below). 

1. Find a couple of blog posts that interest you and share the links with our group in facebook.
2. If you're feeling brave, leave a comment on the blog.
3. Then see what everyone else has posted, and leave a supportive comment for them in the facebook group ;-)

NB: a "post" is one single entry in a person's blog.

Lists of blogs to follow

• Paul Shapiro's list of the best tumblr blogs to follow.
• Ignite Social Media's list of 100 women bloggers you 'should be reading'.
• Daily Tekk's list of the top 100 blogs of 2013 - these ones are in categories, so it might be easier to find one you like.
• ..and Daily Tekk's list from 2012 too.
• One of my favourites is Boing Boing.. you might not like it though. It's geeky. 

Extra, an article worth reading: Leigh Blackall writes: "What is blogging these days?".


(For a  list of the range of social media applications, try the Australasian library people.)


Photo by J&TPlaman (creative commons at flickr).