iPad for Dad, #7 – YouTube Rocks!
If you like this post, read some of the other descriptions of our Father/Daughter iPad adventure. iPad for Dad, #1, iPad for Dad, #2, iPad for Dad, #3, iPad for Dad, #4, iPad for Dad, #5, iPad for Dad, #6, iPad for Dad, #7, iPad for Dad, #8, iPad for Dad, #9, iPad for Dad, #10, iPad for Dad, #11, iPad for Dad, #12, iPad for Dad, #13, iPad for Dad, #14, iPad for Dad, #15, iPad for Dad, #16, iPad for Dad, #17 , iPad for Dad, #18, iPad for Dad, #19, and iPad for Dad, #20.
Today’s great success was YouTube — the iPad comes with a YouTube icon on its desktop. I demonstrated how to find all sorts of interesting videos — history just waiting to be accessed. Marian Anderson singing on the National Mall in 1939? Check. Leonard Bernstein lecturing at Harvard? Check. An Ogden Nash poetry reading? Check. Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony? Check…with the choice of several conductors. The Reverend William Sloan Coffin delivering a sermon? Check. Bill Moyers? Check, check, check — there must be 20 options with Moyers.
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And finally the pièce de résistance. Harry Searing is a master bassoonist and exceptional musician in New York City. He is also a relative. A quick search and there he is on YouTube performing a bassoon concerto.
For whatever reason, when YouTube opens, the application attempts to get a user to sign in with a password. You do not need to sign in. To avoid this tap the “featured” button on the bottom left-hand corner of the iPad screen. Thumbnails of the featured YouTube videos will fill up the screen so I explained to Dad that most if not all of these are not relevant for him (though the BP oil items could would be when he feels like looking at videos of an environmental disaster).
Fo find videos that interest him, Dad needs to search. I pointed out the YouTube search box at the top right of the iPad screen and we were off. More importantly Dad, and by this time my Mom, were both engaged.
YouTube rocks!
N.B. My parents had printed out the Apple iPad User’s Guide, mentioned in iPad for Dad, #6, more than 100 pages long. They say it provides lots of helpful iPad information, but like so many manuals written by experts, the instructions leave out key steps or bits of information that are significant omissions for people who are just getting started with a new technology.
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Is there anything better than living your entire life with a sense of curiosity and wonder? Combined with formidable intellect, humor, and a sincere interest in everyone and everything around them, your parents are a joy. Add to that their good fortune in having you around to help navigate the digital world. Wonderful series!
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i really enjoy this series of posts . . . how about a YouTube video of dad using the ipad?
Great idea! I am also thinking about recording a podcast with him. Slow and steady, however, because I want Dad to be sure that I am doing this for him and not for the blog.