Our exploration through the secrets of the Web goes on...The latest creature we descried is...Youtube!
Fortunately, this time wasn't the first time I found myself in touch with this character of the endless moors of the Internet, so I wasn't panic-stricken as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/ is one of the sites I proposed in our first E-tivity and as I wrote in that context, I think it can be very useful since everybody in the world can share videos and watch what others have decided to show. In this way we all can can watch and re-watch something we're interested in or find something nice just for fun. In addition, we can improve our listening skills and our knowledge of other cultures by using this tool, so it can be useful for languages students like us! On the contrary, I've never heard talking about TeacherTube...I just visited it and it's fantastic!
Obviously, there's also the other side of the coin...In Youtube everybody can find a lot of interesting things, but we all risk to meet something vulgar, offensive or simply stupid. A friend of mine showed me a video in which a person explained how to create a virus for computers...(there's no need to comment, I think...). Unfortunately, some people don't use Youtube properly so, as I said in my first post " Youtube is an opportunity in proportion to the intelligence of its users"...(I don't know if I'm quoting in the right way, but there's no problem, in my opinion: I'm not going to report myself) :)
Here there're the videos I chose:
I'm not a doctor but I WANNA work in a place like this...
and this is me last year...ha ha, I'm joking, but I'm really following an ice skating course (maybe with a bit less elegance...)
Fortunately, this time wasn't the first time I found myself in touch with this character of the endless moors of the Internet, so I wasn't panic-stricken as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/ is one of the sites I proposed in our first E-tivity and as I wrote in that context, I think it can be very useful since everybody in the world can share videos and watch what others have decided to show. In this way we all can can watch and re-watch something we're interested in or find something nice just for fun. In addition, we can improve our listening skills and our knowledge of other cultures by using this tool, so it can be useful for languages students like us! On the contrary, I've never heard talking about TeacherTube...I just visited it and it's fantastic!
Obviously, there's also the other side of the coin...In Youtube everybody can find a lot of interesting things, but we all risk to meet something vulgar, offensive or simply stupid. A friend of mine showed me a video in which a person explained how to create a virus for computers...(there's no need to comment, I think...). Unfortunately, some people don't use Youtube properly so, as I said in my first post " Youtube is an opportunity in proportion to the intelligence of its users"...(I don't know if I'm quoting in the right way, but there's no problem, in my opinion: I'm not going to report myself) :)
Here there're the videos I chose:
I'm not a doctor but I WANNA work in a place like this...
and this is me last year...ha ha, I'm joking, but I'm really following an ice skating course (maybe with a bit less elegance...)
5 commenti:
Hi Alberto!
I definitely agree with you! YouTube is useful to improve a language and to know something more about the topics you are interested in! I like the fact that everyone can upload his own videos and share them with other surfers. In the post of my blog I didn't speak about the risk of finding superficial or vulgar videos because I think that fortunately the largest part of them are positive! However, you are right: we all must be careful!
The first video is taken from the American comedy show "Scrubs" ,right? It's really funny!
The second one is very nice too...I love ice skating!
Bye bye
Laura
Hi Alberto,
That serial was on MTV, and I love it! It's really hilarious! Great choice, indeed!
As you pointed out one must be careful using such tools, and I've seen worse example of what you can find on YouTube...
But I think we're adult enough to choose what we are interested in, or at least I hope! The problem is when there are young boys or girls watching this kind of video...
Anyway, I'm glad to see that you find it useful to improve your English, and I agree with you that it can help us to train our listening skills, and even to enlarge our culture. Probably you use it more than me, and you can better appreciate its potential!
See you in class!
Claudia
Hi Alberto!!
We wrote more or less the same thing about YouTube. It's true that this tool has two different aspects; on one hand YouTube is a kind of big container when you can put whatever you want, but on the other hand you have the risk to "meet" some videos that are not so intelligent and pleasant to watch. Maybe it can be a problem for young people who can able to filter and select what they really want, but as Claudia said, we are adult enough to take the right decision.
What about the videos you choose, I really appreciated both; as Claudia wrote, I followed this serial on MTV and it's really funny. The second about the skating on ice is simply fantastic. Unfortunately I can skate and so when I see what these people can do on these skates I feel a little bit envious.
Bye Bye
Hi Alberto!
I agree with you! I think that Claudia is right but often it can happen that when you look for a video and type some words to search it, you find many links and so they can be vulgar or so on.
Hi Alberto!
Wow!You're very good at ice skating.Ha ha! I'm very wimpy with all these kind of sports like skating or skiing. Some years ago I made a skating course and I was always falling and hitting my rear. Really frustrating!
I saw the American serial on MTV channel but I don't like it very much. I don't know why! Maybe my sense of humor is very far from this serial.
As far as YouTube is concerned, we can do some listening exercise and we can watch funny or interesting videos but is it our real aim to improve our listening skills when we use YouTube? Maybe. I don't know! Definetly I prefer other tools.
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