Hello to all who have found me here. I am starting this blog primarily due to my frustration with facebook's algorithm and lack of human customer support and human ideals. A conclusion has been reached by me (not so difficult a conclusion to surmise) that facebook is all about the cash and absolutely unconcerned with basic human morality. This should not surprise anyone who is familiar the psychological profile of the founder. I desperately need an outlet to express my utter disgust at the way they have handled, and continue to handle, my case.
Let me give you a little of the background to my angst. I am a native English speaking teacher from Canada. I am currently working at a university abroad, teaching English in several different international programs. My wife also works at the same university, teaching English at the Faculty of General Education. As part of her duties, she was asked to create an exit exam tutorial to help our students pass their English exit exam. We made a short tutorial video with the lowest possible tech (we had no editing software, no camera, and a very cheap, bad microphone).
We handed it in to the admin of the uni, who posted it on their YouTube channel, and thought no more about it, presuming that was the end of the story. Ten months later, we inadvertently discovered that our lousy little short video with poor sound already had nearly 5,000 views. So, we thought, why not do it right? If people are actually going to watch and learn from our tutorials, at the very least they deserve good sound. We ordered a good microphone, started our own YouTube channel, and made a second video.
After editing and producing our second similar tutorial video, with much, much better sound quality, we quickly realized that in order to be moderately successful at teaching people, we needed people to teach. Our journey towards increasing our audience began on facebook...
(more next time)
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