Youtube University

Youtube is a real rotation in the field of audiovisual material shared on the network. His motto, "to convey to yourself (broadcast yourself)," self-explanatory rewards of the page is accepted as the paradigm of Web 2.0.

The millennian genesis (those born after 1980) has got an effectual and Youtube to look on free music films, episodes of pop serial publication and films. The corp Google corrupted YouTube in U.S. dollars 1.760 million in late 2006.

However, Salman Khan, a resident of California, United States, of Indian origin, has another use for the tool and has become a celebrity on YouTube to introduce audiovisual teaching material matter most revered by students: math .

Sampling to service a proportional who had trouble agreement the advance calculus, Khan modeled slate Paint program, recorded his voice through a taping program and was explicating step by step guidelines to accompany to resolve a complicated trouble.

In a proportional you the video was useful, so that Khan, who endure the determination of the effort that took place, raised the material to a YouTube channel made by the November 16, 2006 and that was the birth of Khan Academy (The Academy of Khan).

Nearly four yrs and 1.630 videos later, Khan virtual classes have been played 20.2 million times. In addition, its website has 70,000 users, consequently Khan Academy has more educatees than the Catholic University of Santo Domingo (UCSD) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (Intec) together.

Youtube has get a sort of alternative universe, without titles or schoolrooms or schedules, only knowledge-hungry students whose only desire is to learn.

Like Khan, other specialisers from around the global accept shared on Youtube what they cognize about how to assemble a computer, how to instal an OS and even how a heart transplantation. Who said the Internet is totally that is stunting the young minds and violating the copyright?

Khan Academy in the audio-visual classes are calculus, physics, algebra, geometry, statistics, finance, chemistry and biology.

Khan's method at all can't replace the schoolroom, following the teacher-student fundamental interaction is central to the teaching-learning procedure. However, it is potential that those who have incurred a hapless performance in some of the subjects learned by Professor of Youtube can review their lessons interesting.

Classes are delivered in videos that don't last more than 15 minutes, since Youtube has limits for average users, but the content is as precise and focused, you do not need to explain extended.

Khan holds a chair in a simple and correct English, apart from adding a sense of humor to the Pythagorean theorem and the binomial theorem, which in formal schoolrooms do not seem unfunny.

Beware of other dot-com bubble!

By achieving 500 million users (of which many are not active), the company Facebook is valued at more than 24,000 million dollars a Bloomberg magazine.The company, which bases its business with being social network support world's about successful, had earnings of $ 700 million in 2009. To obtain the value assigned to Bloomberg, Facebook needs to operate and is pop for the future 34 yrs.

The fiscal specialists expect earnings of 1,300 million dollars by the end of 2010, but the verb "hope" equals "has not happened yet." Would you buy contributions betting that Facebook social network will still be pop in 2044? Could someone make sure that Facebook will remain in control of our virtual lives in the future three yrs?

Google contributions surpass $ 400. Fund managers around the world expect the stock price will rise, since the company was 6.000 billion dollars in profits in the second quarter of 2010. However, can anyone project if Google remains the king of online search in the future five yrs?

Early in the decade of the 00 (2000), investors around the world lost billions of dollars when the bubble burst dot-com companions. Confronted with the massive use of online and news, from 1995, a considerable number of people thought that websites were the new gold mine and placed the demand for contributions prices of fiscal instruments in the sky.

Then, when about struck with the reality that these companions do not generate the expected profits, investors were in rush to sell their contributions, a natural phenomenon of the market economy downgraded the price of the instruments to zero. In the rankings of top business magazines like Fortune and Bloomberg, emerge as fastest growing companions eBay, Youtube, Twitter, among others.

The Wall Street Journal Google stands out as the Corporation paid $ 100 million like.com, a Web portal devoted to electronic commerce. Never mind that Yahoo was valued at 60.000 billion when Microsoft offered them an acquisition in 2008. It says Alexander Elder in his book Living the trading in, individuals reflect with and learn from their mistakes, but the crowds, which are affecting fiscal markets behave primitive and thoughtless.

Also Ralph Nelson Elliott, father of graphic analysis of values, based his theory with the fact that the crowds go from optimism to doubt, then fear, go back to hope and optimism. This means that the mood of about works in the form of a cycle that does nothing but repeat itself.

It seems that the fear of the dot-com bubble of 2000 was forgotten, so that investors are ready for another expensive lesson about the importance of not letting go with the flow.