Well, that title is just a nice attention getter. Error messages can pop up on any computer. Besides, we sometimes make a mistake on the computer and want to make amends. So what can you do if no one is around to ask for help?
The raft of video clips on the Internet comes to the rescue. You can try the various video sites such as "YouTube," "Google Videos," "How to Videos," "VideoJug," etc.--scroll down a bit on the side panel at left--and enter an natural-language question, like "How to choose a printer when printing a Word document?" or "How to cancel a print job?" You will invariably come across a video clip that can provide you with an answer to your typed-in question or to something close to it, if you persevere.
That was what I did to get this clip on "VideoJug":
It's a well-known fact now that you can type in just about anything you want to learn on YouTube and other similar video sites and get a demonstration to address your question, although the quality of the answers varies.
And isn't finding a visual answer online to our everyday questions a desirable skill to model for and share with our ESL students?
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