Background. This study aimed to obtain an overview of learning outcomes using a virtual YouTube-based application as a medium for fundamental movement skills learning at the Elementary School. Methods. The method used in this study was classroom action research. The learning system created and implemented is a YouTube-based virtual learning system. The design used is a cycle model that include...

Y ouTube, a decade on from its inception, exceeding 1 billion users (1), has become the largest video-sharing platform on the Internet. With more than 300 hours of video uploaded every minute (1), generating millions of daily views, YouTube has succeeded in becoming a podium for all video sectors. With this expansion, a new division has emerged over the years: Education. YouTube is an extremely...

T he increasing popularity of internet social media is likely to present new opportunities and challenges to current paradigms in medical education. 1 Some advocate that social media (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and so forth) can enhance learning opportunities outside the classroom, and can be especially helpful to promote self-directed learning. 1 YouTube (www. youtube.com) was created in 2005...

In this paper, we present an in-depth and systematic measurement study on the characteristics of YouTube videos. We crawled the YouTube site for a 3-month period in early 2007, and obtained more than 2 million distinct videos. This constitutes a significant portion of the entire YouTube video repository. Using this collection of datasets, we find that YouTube videos have noticeably different st...

English Today / Volume 24 / Issue 02 / June 2008, pp 3 12 DOI: 10.1017/S026607840800014X, Published online: 05 November 2008 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S026607840800014X How to cite this article: Kingsley Bolton (2008). English in Asia, Asian Englishes, and the issue of prociency. English Today, 24, pp 3-12 doi:10.1017/S026607840800014X Request Permissions : C...

This article investigates how government interacts with citizens on social media channels in solving government transparency deficit problems. In Indonesia, Jakarta’s newly elected government adopted government’s official YouTube channel to address the long-standing government bureaucracy and corruption. Using content analysis, 495 YouTube videos are examined whether or not governmentgenerated ...

YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing websites on the Internet, allowing users to upload, view and share videos with other users all over the world. YouTube contains many different types of videos, from homemade sketches to instructional and educational tutorials, and therefore attracts a wide variety of users with different interests. The majority of YouTube visits are perfectly inn...

The first attempt at stimulating growth of the mandible in therapy of distal bite Class II/1 was initiated by Kingsley in 1877. The method described as “jumping the bite” is still applied today according to the principle of functional bimaxillary appliances such as for example activator, bionator, function regulator (1-3) and others, whereby the mandible is brought into the anterior position by...

At the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Kingsley Zipf, one striking fact about the statistical regularity that bears his name, Zipf's law, is that it seems to appear everywhere. We may ask these questions related to the ubiquity of Zipf's law: Is there a rigorous test in fitting real data to Zipf's law? In how many forms does Zipf's law appear? In which fields are the data sets claiming...

YouTube is one of the world’s most popular web sites and hosts numerous amateur and professional videos. Comments on these videos may be researched to give insights into audience reactions to important issues or particular videos. Yet little is known about YouTube discussions in general: how frequent they are, who typically participates and the role of sentiment. This article fills this gap thr...