Thursday, October 18, 2012

Search Stories (google)

LINK TO WEBSITEhttps://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/
Purpose of the site: This site is a craetion of Google's video engine, Youtube. You get as a result a movie that shows all the searchings you do on Google and the best kind of results you chose. Then, this machine gets all of these and puts them together into a movie where you can show all of the things you've searched together.
How to use this site:
1. Enter all the search terms you want.
2. Choose whether to show Web Search, Images, Maps, News, Blog Search, Product Search, or Books.
3. See the preview below on how all the searches you put turn out in the clip
4.When done, go to 'Add Music'
5. Choose what type of music to choose between 3 types of Action, Comedy, Country & Western, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-fi, and Romance
6. Preview the final result, and if you are unsatisfied with the results you can change the story or the music
 7. Give it a title, genre, description and upload it to Youtube!
Example of how Camila Toro used the site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJzAHG7dqfE&hl=en_GB&fs=1 
How other students can use this website:
Projects: Students can take advantage of this amazing tool by using it in projects. When class work requires information about any special event in history or a remarkable character, they can use this website to show all the information and research about this topic. Also, they can show maps and images or translation if they are doing something about geography. They can practically do it for anything!!

Entertainment: Students nowadays are surfing the internet more than ever. And, most of the times, they are on Facebook because they can't do anything else. They could use this site to create a clip where they can show anything they want! They can do it just for entertainment, or show other fellow mates about their passion. It is very fun to do, and the results are amazing!

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