Students should become familiar with Web 2.0 technologies; furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, students should understand the technical vocabulary associated with the reading in this content area; hence, though students enjoyed browsing the videos and then adding them to their blogs, they also had to complete a vocabulary self-collection strategy assignment for which the students had to select a significant YouTube vocabulary word, define it without a dictionary and then state why they chose the word for the class to learn; indeed, the students appreciated this lexical empowerment.
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