Thing 20: You Tube, Teacher Tube, and Blinkx

I did not have a lot of luck on Teacher Tube. I searched first for Library Orientation. The blurbs for each offering are very brief--after a few words, the canned TeacherTube vision statement usurps the rest of the space. However, I discovered that they were the same 6 videos listed over and over again. Clicking on one called Orientation at Walker Elementary didn't get me the video, but a 9+ page list of the most favorite videos (and they weren't related to my search). On about the fifth page, I again clicked on the same title, and this time the video came up. However, the 4 1/2 minute video had to buffer EVERY 4 SECONDS! I let it buffer 5 times and then lost patience.
However, when I went to YouTube, I found a clean page with the summaries of the videos listed on the right and a screen shot, title, and brief descriptor listed on the left. Many of the Teacher Tube videos were listed here (only once per title), but the screen shots and summaries made choosing an appropriate one MUCH easier.

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGGt7S34hrQ

Since I'm continuing to have trouble with this "Thing", I'm going to skip it and come back later. On to Thing 21.

It's been nearly 2 more weeks since I posted this, and I still can open the direction video for how to download videos, and I thought I tried what the help screens told me to do to download, but it doesn't work. This is all the time I have to spend on this Thing on this go round.