YOUTUBE

 

YOUTUBE

*Angie Plata

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

 

Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via YouTube, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, and registered users can upload videos to their channels. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.

Technology has become in a great allied when it comes about academic process, since the inclusion of tech in the learning and teaching process education has turned 360°, new and difference sources can be used within the classroom, well-trained teachers bring innovative sources which would not be possible if not for technology. Furthermore, sources like: weblogs, wikis, podcasting, presentation sharing software, digital conversation/group audio blog/voiced thread, image sharing, YouTube and many other could not be possible if not for technology.

YouTube is the most video sharing web site visited in the planet; thousands of new videos are published on this media each day. You tube has let education be better, if you did not understand what your teacher explained in class, just write the name of the topic on YouTube searcher and thousands of tutorials will appear to explain you in detail the topic of you interest.

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