Imagine this: a university from grade school to college
without teachers except for few technicians to maintain classroom giant
screens, machines and internet modems and yeah; few security guards. Who can teach you “The Theory of Relativity” better than
Einstein himself? It is a
fancy thought but very possible. If I am a teacher; I will go to my class with
a small USB. I will be a sergeant at arms maintaining quiet in the class while
my pupils/students watch my teaching video.
To hear someone say to a person asking question; “Google it”
or “don’t ask me, ask Google” is no joke. The greatest teachers in our time are
machines: Google and YouTube and yeah; Yahoo, Bing whatever but they are all
machines. While we enjoy technology; the knowledge we can derive from it is truly
mind boggling. Google gives you from few to millions of choices in reply to a query
while YouTube provides you with tutorials that give Google a human face and a
voice.
I was watching on YouTube some photography tutorials when
some thoughts just sort of crashed into my mind. I have for quite sometimes wondered
how I can post a YouTube video on my blog. I tried several techniques but
nothing worked. I knocked on my head for an instant and said; YouTube. “How do
I post a YouTube video on my blog,” I typed on the search box. On top of my
screen among the series of answers was a video less than two minutes long.
Huh! How brainless of me…stupid; pleasantly stupid of me. In
all YouTube video; there is a box for “share” but whenever I clicked that in
the past…facebook, twitter and G+ icons appeared. That was how I shared video
on facebook, twitter and my Google+. What I didn't notice; really stupid of me
is there is a small arrow that when clicked opens a box that contains other
social networks and one of it is “B” for blogger. It didn't take a minute to
post one of my personal YouTube videos on my blog…buwahaha!
I can now post all of my personal YouTube videos and other
videos especially rare and good Islamic videos that I like to keep and where
others can watch on my blog :-)
NLK
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