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Great ideas for making annotation an instructional tool

Blended Learning Environments - Models and Examples Note: Several of these descriptions come from Edutopia's playlist of Five-Minute Film Festival videos, with annotations added by the staff of Edutopia.

Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children's number sense. The movable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments that use iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads. Display 1 to 5 rows of beads, 10 beads per row. On the iPad, display up to 10 rows. Hide beads with the resizable shade, which allows teachers or learners to model subtraction or difference problems. Reverse the colors of rows 6 to 10 to distinguish (or not) groupings of 25 beads. Use the drawing tools to annotate work and show understanding Write equations and expressions with the text tool.

Now this looks interesting. I signed up and it works like a charm! Saves to Drive. It doesn't create a Doc file, because it has to link to the video. I can see this as being really helpful for editing video.

Add audio feedback to any Google Doc. Slides version is for fee.