YouTube is maybe the most famous site of videos of the web. I knew it also before Sarah suggested us to see it, but I had always seen only stupid and comic videos with my friends!!! What is great of YouTube is not only the possibility to watch and download videos, but also save, organise and share them with other people. Thanks to this site, you can know other users and interact with them, through the comments about the videos.
Moreover, you can find works about everything you want, from the most crazy thing to the most important or serious one. For example, surfing YouTube I discovered some videos of a friend of mine who is in Erasmus in Spain since last September and I saw his life there… (completely crazy!!!!) or I watched to the videos of some friends who was in Germany with me last month…it is wonderful because you can feel the emotions of the nearness and of the contact with the people or the places which you know but which you can not really live!
From another point of view, it can be also a means to have news about the world or, for example, it is really very easy to find out gossip…about a 70% of the videos are comic or only about the most famous people of the world (actors, singers, politicians, TV stars…..) and their life…in this case YouTube is a sort of entertainment!!! It is clear that this new technology, which is everywhere, and the possibility to shoot also with a mobile is not always a good idea: for example, when it overcomes the boundaries of privacy.
However, if you search for another type of material, it is also a good way to learn and improve your English. As the other sites, which Sarah suggested us to use, YouTube gives the possibility to a foreign languages student to listen to English speakers and, in this way, to improve the pronunciation, but also to have a dialog with the author of the video thanks to the comments. Moreover, this site is useful because it is a different way to learn…I mean that you can choose not only with a cultural purpose, but also funny videos which could interest you and thanks which you can learn without bore yourself!!! What is important is to search for intelligent videos…and only when you want to waste your time, you can also watch to all the stupid videos which there are!!!
Have fun with YouTube!!!
Moreover, you can find works about everything you want, from the most crazy thing to the most important or serious one. For example, surfing YouTube I discovered some videos of a friend of mine who is in Erasmus in Spain since last September and I saw his life there… (completely crazy!!!!) or I watched to the videos of some friends who was in Germany with me last month…it is wonderful because you can feel the emotions of the nearness and of the contact with the people or the places which you know but which you can not really live!
From another point of view, it can be also a means to have news about the world or, for example, it is really very easy to find out gossip…about a 70% of the videos are comic or only about the most famous people of the world (actors, singers, politicians, TV stars…..) and their life…in this case YouTube is a sort of entertainment!!! It is clear that this new technology, which is everywhere, and the possibility to shoot also with a mobile is not always a good idea: for example, when it overcomes the boundaries of privacy.
However, if you search for another type of material, it is also a good way to learn and improve your English. As the other sites, which Sarah suggested us to use, YouTube gives the possibility to a foreign languages student to listen to English speakers and, in this way, to improve the pronunciation, but also to have a dialog with the author of the video thanks to the comments. Moreover, this site is useful because it is a different way to learn…I mean that you can choose not only with a cultural purpose, but also funny videos which could interest you and thanks which you can learn without bore yourself!!! What is important is to search for intelligent videos…and only when you want to waste your time, you can also watch to all the stupid videos which there are!!!
Have fun with YouTube!!!
6 commenti:
Hi Caterina!
You wrote that you had always seen only stupid and comic videos…What harm can it do you?! I mean, at the end of busy days (sometimes during which everything has gone amiss) there is nothing better than watching funny videos which put you in a good mood, make you smile and banish your bad thoughts!! Don’t you think so?!!
See you!
Hi Caterina,
as you pointed out, you can exploit YouTube in different ways. I'm a little sceptical about how can we use it for educational purposes because it's too full of stupid videos!
Stefania
Hi Cate,
I really appreciated the examples you put on your post which stress on the interactive property of Youtube.com. The possibility of communicating from different places through images and words is truly fine even if it could be dangerous for our privacy; as I said to Giovanna the greatest problem here is control: do you think that each single video is uploaded only after having asked the permission to the protagonists? Well, I’m probably a little bit pessimist but…I don’t think so!
See you!
alessia
Hi Caterina!
I appreciated how you organized your post, this time: different colours for different discussion.
I think I'm going to follow your example for my next post. If I remember to!
I have to admit that when you are abroad, far from your friends and family, you miss very much their presence and knowing that through a tool like YouTube you can watch a little part of what they did it's amazing!
YouTube is for everyone, I think it depends on your tastes and mood what kind of video going to watch.
There are videos for everyone's taste!
See you!
Giovi
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