About Video Mashups

Our CURIOS Video Mashup tool provides a way to create a compilation of material from YouTube videos. While there are many good videos out there, we usually cannot find the perfect one that covers all the points in the way that satisfies our needs. So this mashup is an attempt to curate or bring together the salient points into one place. 

Why did we take this somewhat kludgy and chopped up approach to teaching a clinical procedure?

1. There are lots of pretty good video materials on this procedure already on YouTube.
2. It is difficult to clearly capture good video within the narrow confines allowed by the camera angles. 
3. We could not find a single video that showed the steps that we wanted to convey.
4. Navigating to the relevant segments of each video is time consuming and awkward.

So we have simply spliced the useful excerpts from a selection of videos, interspersed with relevant helpful text to explain what to watch for.

We do not copy or lift the material from its original site, and we give due attribution to the original creators. Think of this as a variety of hyperlinked citations. In this age of copyright restrictions, we found that this approach was compliant with Fair Dealing (in Canada) and Fair Use (in USA). Comments on this are welcomed.

If you have any comments or suggestions on these materials, how we might improve them or suggestions for other materials we might use, contact us.