Youtube allows you to create your own “Search Story” video. Essentially, it is an online search-strategy tutorial that could be used for teaching undergraduates how to perform effective searching techniques. These techniques would be translatable to searching in article databases and library catalogs; but students would start on familiar grounds. I love it!
Once logged into Youtube, you can simply do a search for:
search story
or click here.
You are then prompted to enter keywords and search terms into 5 different search boxes.
Next to each search box, you have the ability to select if Google/Youtube will search: web, images, products, blogs, etc.
Finally, you are asked to customize your “theme music” and give your video a name. Once you finalize your video, you can upload it like you would any other video. Follow the “upload” prompts by logging in to your account and clicking on “upload.”
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Teachers and librarians (librarian-teachers) could use this tool with students who have already chosen a research topic. They would then be able to get practice conducting keyword & phrase searches, nested searches, and even Boolean search operators. Students would then be able to share their videos with classmates and instructors while having fun doing it. I can’t wait to try this out:)
