viernes, 16 de abril de 2010

English VIII - Final Essay

The Benefits of Learning with Videos in the Internet:

Internet has become the main tool for almost every aspect in the life of millions of people around the world, connecting people, further than imagination could achieve. Chat rooms, Instant Messenger, Electronic Email, Web Sites, Electronic Commerce, Media Marketing, Videos, Music, Internet Phone Calls, and the new era of Social Networks, just to count some of the most important aspects.

The main problem is that many people only satisfy some simple requirements from the Internet and doesn't maximize it's potential. Many People just know less than a half of what Internet could possible do. A great example as a big benefit from the Internet is the power of learning almost whatever comes to your mind, just search with a “search engine” like Google or Yahoo! and you will find almost any Online tutorial for the thing you want to learn, mostly for free, exactly, you won’t need to pay a dime for it. A new way to learn is with videos, people creates videos with Online Courses and upload them to sites, like Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, you could learn anything from cooking to programming computers just watching videos, the best part is that every video is done from someone with the knowledge and is shared to everybody who accesses the Internet.

By this point, maybe you had remember something you always wanted to learn, by the end of this essay, you should be able to search what you really want to learn and find it with no problem at all. Lets say we want to learn to cook “Ham Bread”, a Venezuelan Christmas Typical Dish with just writing “Ham Bread” in Youtube, you will find many videos about it, one of the best is this one (Audio in Spanish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3rzbI3ZNEM it shows you step by step how to prepare and cook it. Or if you want to learn to play Violin, just type in the search box something like “violin lesson” without the quotes, and you will see a lot of results. For Students at the University, there is no better tool to learn than the Youtube website, Mathematics you could repeat the video over and over again or pause it, Computer Programming Languages, most popular programming languages as C, PHP and Java lessons, almost everything you could imagine, just to name a few.

At the Beginning most of the lessons available on the Net were boring, endless articles or lessons written, that was one of the greatest disadvantages, many tutorials still exists written, but now with Video and Audio technology, you will be able to learn or teach if you decide to create your own Video Tutorial, and transfer your Knowledge to others on the Net, it’s a growing mostly unknown part of the Internet that you could take advantage and explore.

In Conclusion, this is just the tip of the iceberg, one of the best learning tools on the Internet are the Videos, anything you wanted to learn is likely available right now, you just need to search for it. The Best part is that you could leave feedback to the creator of the video in most cases. And ask him/her any question you may have about his/her video or the method of teaching.

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