Using Knovel in the Age of YouTube
In a post about a month ago, I wrote that:
“The founding of YouTube in February, 2005 stands as one of the greatest moments in internet history. The implications of easily available streaming videos were boundless. Our favorite result of YouTube? Wacky science and engineering related music videos!”
While I still wholeheartedly stand by my love of goofy music videos for entertainment, I can’t help but consider the benefit of using YouTube and streaming videos for education and training purposes.
Ensuring Knovel is accessible and easy to use is a high priority. As we continually add more features, content and functionality, it’s good to know that we can provide videos that enable our users to quickly adopt new offerings.
Before I get into Knovel’s new videos, I’d like to highlight videos produced by our users. Many information professionals have taken the time and effort to create instructional videos that raise awareness and encourage use of resources available in their libraries.
- One of the best videos that we’ve seen came courtesy of Jay Bhatt and Dana Denick of Drexel University’s Engineering Library. The video provides a quick and easy overview of Knovel’s search capabilities and interactive tools, while also providing specific information to help Drexel Engineering Students access the library. Terrific job Jay and Dana! If you have any Knovel tutorials that you’ve created, we’d love to see them! Drop your links into the comments section or send an e-mail to nschulman@knovel.com.
With our recent spate of product updates, we at Knovel have created new tutorial videos to keep pace with the changes. I’m proud to debut our new videos, right here on K Exchange!
- First, we have a new video that demonstrates our Basic Search capabilities. The video details how the search function works and illustrates how to use Basic Search to determine the best materials to use to avoid the negative effects of weathering. Take a look!
- Next, we have a new video that demonstrates the use of our Data Search function to develop improved liquids for cleaning the mixing vessels used in a production process.
- Finally, we a have a new video that demonstrates our Interactive Tools. This video includes a chemistry problem in which the user needs to analyze the physical properties of ammonium compounds.
What do you think of our new videos? Did you learn anything new about Knovel? Have you created any videos, or has anyone in your organization created a tutorial? We’d love to see them if you have!
