So cool and flashy, yet so easy!
You can go to the Search Stories YouTube page to see a ton of examples of these. Many of them even tell a story, like last year’s Google Super Bowl ad, Parisian Love:
Isn’t that precious? It gets me all choked up and stuff. ;P
If you want to make your own, click on the button that says, “Create your own with the Search Stories Video Creator.” under the main video (right now, it’s a Toy Story search…very cute!), there’s a button that says, “Create your own with the Search Stories Video Creator.” Click on that.
Then, type in whatever search terms you want and choose whether you want to do a web, image, map, product, blog, etc. search on each.
Click “next” and choose the music you want.
It will take a minute to process, and then you can preview your video.
If you like it, it’s time to upload it to YouTube.
Here’s another one I just made as an English class preview:
If all goes well with the Promethean board setup, I’ll show these to my students day one. :)
Have you made one of these search stories? Link to it in the comments.
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