Tuesday 23 November 2010

YouTube

It may not be too surprising to learn that the ever growing GOOGLE empire also acquired YouTube; For all the nonsense on YouTube, there are also some exceptionally good educational materials.

And with today's webcams and digital technology, you have some options in how you can make good use of YouTube and other such sites:

1) Rather than keep a Blog, you could keep a VLOG (Video-Log) as a study-research diary. This would help improve your oral fluency and act as a useful check mechanism to see if you really understand what you're studying or researching.
2) Video presentations can be uploaded into YouTube.
3) Video presentations and Video CVs are becoming more common. They can be stored on YouTube (or elsewhere) and linked from your website or Blog.

One warning about YouTube: It does periodically get closed down in some parts of the world (rather pointlessly since it is always possible to access it through  a proxy server).

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