This week we have explored the world of YouTube. Well, what can I say about it?
I must admit I don't like it very much. There are, surely, a lot of videos that can help us improve our english, listening to discussions of english native speakers. However there are other videos that in my opinion are so silly and not interesting. Exploring TeacherTube I saw there are a lot of videos about recipts, or explanations about how our body works: these can be interesting!!!
I said I don't like the world of YouTube because I don't like sitting in front of a computer for hour and hours to see videos, but if the videos are about english language learning they can be a wonderful tool to improve my english having fun! If like me you are not very good at cooking you should see this video about how to make a double layered chocolate pie!!!
On YouTube you can find whatever thing you want and its explanatory video: this is a useful thing! However, I think this tool can be shared only by young people, who want have fun watching some videos, sometimes also very offensive videos, but I don't think that a middle-aged person or an old person visites you tube to watch videos. YouTube permit you to learn a lot of things but doesn't give you the opportunity to speak in front of other people and have a real conversation!!!
YouTube can't be considered a tool on which you can put whatever you want. Some months ago I saw on tv that some students of an high school put on YouTube a video in which they teased and maltreated a subnormal mate of them: I think videos like this are to be forbidden!!!
Finally, I can say on YouTube there are some useful videos that permit us to improve our english; it depends on us to watch them and use their teaching with intelligence.
What do you think about YouTube? I'm looking forward to see your reflections!
Bye bye!
Letizia
4 commenti:
Hi Letizia!
I just read the post and it's amazing that we thought about the same video shoot by teenagers that hit a classmate! That was really awful and I agree with you when you say that Yotube lacks a "moderator" that takes a look to the videos uploaded and eventually censors them.
Anyway it's true that YouTube is fun and you can find a lot of interesting hints but like the Podcasts there is no interactiviness. You can watch a lot of videos and laugh and listen to English people talking about different topics but you can't ask questions and you can't talk with them, so in the end this tool is quite "limited" as all the other web-tools we have experienced so far.
See you tomorrow!
Hi Letizia!
I agree with you girls that in YouTube you can find any kind of videos, which can be fun, interesting, witty and satirical; however, as you said, the negative side of these video websites like YouTube is that often there is no control on the videos posted so we have to pay attention to what we can find in such sites!
I also noticed that most of the users of YouTube are young people, as the videos I watched mainly reflect young people’s lifestyle and problems of everyday life; we can see it also by the language they use in comments, which is very colloquial.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t watch the video about the cake recipe, can you please write me the link? As I am very interested in learning how to prepare such a cake..it should be fantastic!:-)
See you tomorrow!
Bye
Hi Letizia!
I agree with you when you say that some videos are the w However as youtube is opened to everybody and is made by everybody's work, moderators are, fist of all, us. When you come across a video you think shouldn't be watched by other people, flag it and youtube administrators will judge if its contents are legal or not -according to youtube terms.
I cannot watch your video as well. If you need some tips, please go to e-ctivity 7 comments on Elena's blog and read mine.
HOpe it helps.
See you on Wed!
Bye, bye!!!
Hi Letizia,
I think that we both share quite the same opinion, that is to say that You Tube has its PROs and CONs and so people can appreciate it but avoid it too considering it too dangerous. You said that what is important is to use it with intelligence, in my post I talked about a critical approach that is needed in such things. I think that it is quite the same... And this is highly important especially if we think that the majority of You Tube's users are teenagers.
See you on Wednesday!
Elena
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