- Thing 11: Find and listen to some podcasts
- Thing 12: Search YouTube for videos and discover YouTube channels
When I was a kid I didn’t read that much I was much happier listening to story tapes and when I listen to the radio I would much rather hear spoken word rather than music – these are the two main reasons why I love podcasts. I started listening to podcasts when I worked on the Oxford Digitisation Project. One of my main tasks was surveying the collections across Oxford’s libraries to see what could be digitised; it was a very repetitive and mundane task and podcasts were the only thing that kept me sane.
The podcasts I am currently listening to are
Now what about YouTube. I like YouTube but I’m not the kind of person who can spend hours searching for videos on it. I tend to only go to it when someone shares a link with me and more often than not I find the videos I watch are information related. Whilst on holiday recently I spent an evening sitting in the hotel bar observing a group of businessmen huddled around a laptop watching videos of car crashes on YouTube – I don’t understand the appeal.
For thing 12 I signed up to a couple of YouTube channels. One of them was the Common Craft channel. If you’ve not heard of Common Craft’s In Plain English series then I’d thoroughly recommend you check it out. Here’s their video on Twitter to get you in the mood for next week’s things…
