Evaluation of Youtube
Sivnit Mudaliar
Learning methodologies have always evolved and changed to enhance the learning potential of students. One of the most contemporary and widely used methods is the utilization of internet. YouTube.com is one such tool which can be used in the teaching and learning process. Essentially, this is a video sharing website owned by the American company Google.Inc and was established by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and is available in 34 different languages. YouTube.com is a highly relevant and can be a very systematic way of teaching students concepts which are abstract and require visual representations to understand the main idea.
The screenshot below illustrates the general layout of the website and its essential components.
This website is a database for millions of educational videos for young people and can be easily accessed provide good internet connectivity. Teachers can, without much effort, create an account in Google.com (the parent website), register and upload class-based educational videos. In this respect, this web 2.0 tool is an advantage to teachers as they can make available additional classroom material to the ease of those students who are studying through a distance-learning program or teach concepts in classroom which are relatively abstract and difficult to grasp with theory work.
Likewise, YouTube.com is also a handy tool for teachers who can effortlessly record and document a teaching session and upload it to the site for student’s future reference. Similarly, YouTube.com provides a more social way of interacting and learning difficult concepts as there are comment blogs at the bottom of each video on which the users can post their opinions, questions, and actively discuss related school material. Nevertheless, teachers can easily subscribe to other reference materials such as interviews, research and scientific discoveries and animated materials to add colour in their teaching practice and optimising learning. YouTube.com is also an effective classroom tool as the in-built privacy filter generates videos relevant to the search input rather than corrupt videos or those which are ethically, morally, and legally unacceptable.
In short, learning can be facilitated through effective use of tools both natural and technological. One such tool is YouTube.com which a free video database and provides educators to expose to a more educational approach to learning. This media-based tool is easily strengthening the learning abilities of students and as a teacher I deem it necessary to address such internet tools.
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