VIDEO SHARING WEB SITES: YOU TUBE. by Eny Johanna Prens

Web sites video sharing are the social networking sites that allow you to upload clips and share them with others.

  YouTube is a website where users can upload and share videos. It is very popular thanks to the possibility of hosting personal videos easily. The range of topics covered by YouTube has become for sharing videos on one of the most important parts of the web 2.0 culture. It has a variety of movies, TV shows and music videos.

USING THE VIDEOS IN THE CLASSROOM

YouTube is an important technology in the physical classroom and distance tool so that students are motivated, to ensure a learning easy, fun, expand and generate new knowledge, stimulate learning and also serves students recreate their research or field work and share them with the teacher and classmates, so we should take advantage of this web tool and improve the skills of the students.

     A very common way to share YouTube videos with a public, as students, is to embed the video in a web page, for example in a social networking site or a blog.

Students can be motivated to film their learning using a video camera or mobile phone - for example, a scientific experiment or a field trip - and you can then publish the results.

With a projector connected to the computer, provided you are online, the URL for the video clip can be easily integrated in ordinary PowerPoint presentation.

    The tool is located at the following link:

http://youtu.be/A3Ec-RpAyLM