The objective of the second study was to use video content as a way to research and understand complex subject matter. It inspires interest and motivation.

With the second study I explored how collaborative tools could assist students in researching video content. I call this technique video attaching, which allowed users to attach videos to one another, and compile their own video clusters. Not very different from video tags in You Tube or Vimeo, which allow users to see videos with related tags, this tool allows users to make meaning, and attach videos they see having relationships.

This tool would be used as students create collborative video spaces as they research for a paper, report or movie. In this example we see how videos students compile on To Kill a Mockingbird and the Civil Rights could be viewed and compared. These videos would not be seen as similar within an automated tagging system, but are historically related.