How I learned xml and grew to love youtube

One of the learning tools that has come as a surprise to me is youtube. I frankly thought youtube was for ephemera - like a sneezing panda or a kid getting his finger bitten by his baby brother. I did not take it seriously, no spend much time in the youtube playground. It has been a major find for resources in the technologies that support the digital library. The latest case in point is for XML instructions. The tutorial that ultimately was the most useful to me was the Just Enough XML to Survive because it condensed the ideas into its most pure forms and then strung them together, showing the underlying logic. Plus, the voice was great, the presentation was clean and it all was aesthetically well done. I wonder how video teaching is different than classroom teaching and if university professors are able to make the transition. I poked around for 'amateur' tutorials and it was very impressive the number and the quality. The Four Minute series by Zlantorb is a good example of a kind of flash card system for learning and refreshing memory. As I am not a big fan of the 3 schools I was most happy to have found other options and often surprised at their quality. Youtube will not be overlooked as a tool any longer.