Video killed the Navitar!

Oh...my...fluff. What a crazy few weeks it's been! My eyes are dry, my fluff is all dusty because I haven't left the computer room, and I think I'm hallucinating too as I thought I saw a zillion little Navitars marching past the window yesterday...

I've been exploring video websites, and what a ride it's been! I've watched more funny cat videos on YouTube than you can shake your fluff at, strained my tiny brain by watching much bigger brains on http://www.ted.com/ and seen some amazing animation and uploaded my own videos on http://www.vimeo.com/.
I think YouTube is great. You can find anything on YouTube, from teaching videos by Scott Thornbury (I saw him on Twitter!) to how to reset a Flipcam when it freezes! You can also see useful stuff for people learning English like the BBC Flatmates series.

TED hurts my brain but shows me what experts and famous people think about lots of issues like the environment, science and of course technology. Because I'm exploring things like Facebook and Twitter, I found this talk about 'Filter bubbles' really interesting, but this song about sharing online was really fun too! Funnily enough, it's on YouTube too!

Finally, I love Vimeo because it's where my videos live. It's a super-creative space where you can see things like this 12-minute film 'Zero'. It was actually a bit scary, and because I'm a ball of fluff I really understand how the little stringy guys feel.

Finally, here are my tips for how not to get overwhelmed by all the great video out there:

1. Plan how much time you want to watch for, and stick to it!
2. If you find a film useful, email it, tweet it or post the link on Facebook. Make sure you say what it is and why you like it, so that other people can decide if they want to watch it without wasting their time
3. Have some fun by making your own! I use a really easy Flipcam and the free Moviemaker thing because that's all I have, but you can use anything! You can probably make a film on your mobile phone right now!

Talking of which, I made a new film this week. More on that soon....