Janet Penley told me once that you can learn anything you want on YouTube--and that all the teachers are so nice!
She's right. No grades, no writing lines, no staying after school, no punishment if you mess up or color outside the lines.
Just as reading one book leads to another and one site leads to another, one tutorial does as well.
I wanted to know how to tint black and white photos and came upon this interesting lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wipMv7GTmI4
You want to paint on top of photos? Or install something you just bought? Or make paper flowers? Or hear interviews with writers? Or put binding on a quilt or pillow? Go to You Tube and ask and nice people will deliver your lessons right to your screen, voila!
I wonder what motivates all these millions of people to take the time to make a video for other people? Maybe we all want to teach or inspire other people. Maybe we want to leave tracks of our play and days.
I wonder what it would have been like to have these electronic sources back when I was in school studying facts from dry textbooks--to see the writers I was reading talking about their books, to learn more about a tiny detail skimmed over in the history book, to learn more than just lemon pie in Home Ec!
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