TIP of the day: Media search

I suspect that the Media available in Logos/Verbum is underutilized because many users have not worked with the Media Search sufficiently to be able to find the interesting (to them) resources ... and hence not aware of what a broad range of resources are included in the media search. A resource containing media will have tag or title as a Search field - found in the information pane of a resource.

1. There are 3 major categories of media one can search for - audio, image and video. The image category has a variety of subtypes. The easiest way to learn what each of the subcategories contain is to take the same search and run it over and over with different subtypes and view the results.

2. A simple example Search is to Search Architectural Images for <Thing Syngague>.

3. Hovering on an image will bring up a preview that frequently is the caption for the image but may be simply the text following an image without a caption.

4. Right clicking on an image allows one to copy, save, export to Proclaim or PowerPoint or to print the image.

5. Clicking on an image opens the resource containing it to the image.

6. The same search run on the subcategory Art Images.

7. The same search run on the subcategory Artifact Images (think archaeology).

8.The same search run on the subcategory Lanscapes.

9. The same search run on the subcategory Inforgraphics (think Faithlife Study Bible).

10.The same search run on the subcategory Line Drawings

11. The same search run on the subcategory Photos.

12. The same search run on the subcategory Site Plans.

13. One can, of course, run a search for all media when you have no preconception of what fits your needs. Notice that this includes a video.

14. One is not limited to the physical thing synagogue. However, the cultural concept synagogue finds no hits.

15. However, the simple text match synagogue results in considerably more results than the Biblical thing synagogue.

16. A search on the topic synagogue brings up a different subset of the results.

17. One may request a variety of subcategories.

18. One may use compound search arguments. Note that the unit for the two elements being in the same article is the same as for a basic search. This sometimes means a bit of research being required to understand why an apparently irrelevant item was selected.

19. This is an example of a chart that appears to be irrelevant.

20. Using proximity operators help focus the results.

21. Even with proximity arguments, if an image lacks an explanatory caption it is more frequently a positive result that one can explain but it doesn't fit your needs.

22. But some of the precise hits may be media you were unaware that you had such as people diagrams based on events not family trees.

23. And charts in a variety of styles spread throughout your library may illustrate particular aspects of the text in a manner very useful to teaching. Note that these images may have copyright restrictions with regards to reprinting them but they are still available for presentations.