This is our last week of our putting the XBox Live through it’s pace as an Xbox Live Ambassador. I’ve blogged about the new Xbox Live Features, a move night with Love Film, our TV night with Vampires and Gleek and last week it was Sports, with our footie supporter videos. This week were having a look at YouTube. Don’t forget there is an Xbox Live Gold Membership, there is a discount below.
I have not really used YouTube much, I know why not and where have I been with all these funny videos, etc. It’s just not something I have gotten into. Now however, I may have turned into a YouTube addict. I switched on the Xbox, installed the YouTube App, which downloads in minutes and started searching through the vast and I mean vast amount of clips there are. It was very cool using the Kinnect to scroll through the clips using my hands, the boys thought I was doing some kind of magic.
First up we tired some singing and sung along with the YouTube Clip. What do you think a singer in the making or a YouTube disaster:-
Who says YouTube can’t be used for educational purposes, not me. The boys learned the ABC song:-
Unfortunately the boys are big Justin Bieber fans, they aren’t into Pop music much yet, however I’m sure that’ll change over the next few years with my oldest being at school. They heard Bieber’s famous Baby Baby song at a Panto before Christmas and have been singing it ever since. Much to my distaste for Bieber Fever. They asked for the song to sing along too and I captured some of it. Could we have a couple of boy band members here?
After all that singing, some dancing followed. Possibly some kind of hip hop, who knows but they enjoyed it and it’s exercise for them. Ok, not sure they’ll be on the Strictly Come Dancing or anything like that but who knows what their future holds. I changed this version for the Chipmunks version, mainly for my own sanity.
We had so much fun browsing YouTube, it’s not something I would leave them alone to do, as there can be some dodgy stuff on YouTube but it can be filtered out using the various different safety modes, which is great. I really liked that the Xbox has these safety features, meaning I can browse and choose without worrying too much about what’s coming on in a family environment. I am amazed at how much is on there and how easy it was to navigate and search for on Xbox Live. I will definitely be using this a lot more in the future. For rainy days when I am in doors with the children, we used it for education, exercise, singing and just fun. We also watched some TV clips of their favourites shows and I showed them some of the shows I used to watch many moons ago when I was a little girl. They were laughing their heads off. We loved watching our own YouTube videos on the tv screen, the boys were loving seeing themselves. I would say that the YouTube section on Xbox live is fantastic, I had no idea how much you could do with it and will use it again and again.
Don’t forget…
I have a very special off for my wonderful readers, if you go to our page on the Xbox site you will find an option to get 3 months Xbox Live Gold for half price. All you have to do is enter my special code which is Ss3nKM8nn. Let me know if you have any problems with this, I am sure you won’t. Now go enjoy all the wonderful new features of Xbox Live.
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