We live in exciting times. About 7 years ago (in the days of dialup internet) I gave a talk at a conference on teaching Slavonic languages and predicted that once broadband is more readily available, teaching languages online will be revolutionized because we will be able to exchange voice and eventually video which are essential to language learning.

Here's an interesting example of the use of YouTube as both object and medium of study. YouTube is somehow seen as not serious but when I needed to figure out how to use a new video editing program, that's where I went. Here are a few other ways in which YouTube has been very helpful to me in just the last month: