Ra Ximhai (Jul 2016)
YOUTUBE ́S EDUCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES USES
Abstract
Under the theoretical framework constructed for Computer Mediated Communication, by documentary research, various contributions on YouTube were reviewed in order to spot the educational opportunities offered by it. The result distinguishes it as an asynchronously, transmissive and interactive communication media; classified to share videos and create communities around shared resources. Educational studies collected in this review describes it as teacher ́s tool for content management and community’s creator; and for promoting the development of learners seeking skills, selection and evaluation of audiovisual representations of own or strange authorship.