Tutorial 3 & 4

1. What are the factors that lead to the extreme popularity of YouTube, especially with keen competition from other social network services like Wiki, Blogs and Facebook.

Allows people to upload videos to share with other people around the world through streaming while ensuring a certain amount of video quality.
Contains a wide range of videos and it advertises itself when people use the videos for their own websites.

2. The article discusses some downsides to YouTube. How would you deal with these issues?

These issues are inevitable as people would make use of communities to bring across their plans.

3. What would be the future direction for YouTube?. Refer to the sections “Where is it going?” and “What are the implications for teaching and learning” for some ideas.

The future direction for YouTube will most probably be broadcasting information in a different media. As a popular website, its name can be used for other means of broadcast, be it for research in schools are even a YouTube TV channel on HD.

Imagine a school where the lessons are taught using a broadcast method and teachers would enhance the experience of learning by doing hands-on activites as well as re-enforcing the students with related information.