What is Youtube about? What services does Youtube provide?

The above title poses two questions that we are suggested to discuss on our blogs. It's slightly ironic that I am now going to attempt to answer them AFTER I made a Youtube account last week.

This blog post is related to Technical Template Five, a template about what Youtube has to offer people, and also a look into using Youtube as a means to explain, convey or show someone something about a topic of interest (based on a fieldwork experience, OT practice area or a personal interest).

So, here's a wee Youtube video explaining one service: Youtube Creator Institute; pretty epic advertising!

http://www.youtube.com/user/youtube?blend=2&ob=4

Here is a site on the Terms of service for using Youtube:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/terms.html

And good old Wikipedia has a nice, easy description for me:

" YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, Vevo, Hulu and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube retrieved 28/3/2011)

My topic of interest is going to be Harps and Harp Music. The harp is a fascinating instrument that I will always be in love with, whether I am playing, composing, viewing or listening to other forms of harp music.

So instead of writing a novel (like I normally do) to explain about harps and so forth, I'm going to try and use Youtube material instead.

Here is a clip about the history of harps, this particular woman has many, many videos explaining different contexts that the harp has been played in throughout history (too many to upload all):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLjHztyfD8&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPAFDD890C8E48110B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qaik4xdWk&feature=relmfu (this lady is more professional!)

Here is a clip on how to play the harp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFyxTjvtx8&feature=relmfu

Here are some videos demonstrating the MANY variations of harp music: modern, traditional, celtic, alternative, punk, classical ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eBnlAfvbqE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrDMp0K2qXs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7TDOtfxts&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZi1NHyL8I0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAHUkIfK24&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMkOYq4lcZE&feature=related

So hopefully this is a good insight into harps and harp music!

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtbIWF_ynU