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"Videos are traditionally linear and directive. In the classroom, videos are designed to either dispense information or teach the viewer a new skill. However, great lessons are rarely passive. Using the annotations feature in YouTube, teachers can create videos that require participation. At its most basic, students are given four choices, and they select the correct answer. If an incorrect choice is made, students watch a new video that reteaches the concept. If the correct choice is made, the initial video links a new video that shows the next step, or the next problem. Going deeper, the first video can link to several choices, and each of those choices can link to several choices. " A nice tool to enhance the use of video -- annotations that link to other videos. It doesn't say if the links could also be to resources or other kinds of sites.

Offers 4 different tools than can help you and students with video and Web work: Scrible to annotate electronic texts lets students work collaboratively and teachers can use annotations for formative assessment and comments; VideoAnt lets you use video as texts to timestamp video for access later, type up notes in a sidebar, and share annotations; Kaizena Shortcut is a Google extension that allows detailed feedback, and can also be used for recordings; EDPuzzle lets teachers create lessons for instructional videos like Khan Academy and give feedback on students progress. These all sound worth a try.

This is an incredibly good tool to shape your video instruction. EmbedPlus lets you annotate any YouTube video with your own comments and then embed it on your own webpage or wiki (also supports WordPress). You could take your own video, upload it to YouTube and insert directions for note-taking, suggestions for other activities, and so on. With the Pro version (currentl $14.99/lifetime!) you can add external links to your annotations, and the interface will inform you if a video you are using has been taken down or moved. A Slow button lets you watch the action in slow-motion. Again, the Pro service lets you crop and splice interesting parts of the video. I hope this tool stay around for a while and remains free.

This is a round-up of ways to add interactive elements to your own videos. These can enhance videos for flipped lessons. One of these tools is YouTube itself, which has built-in annotation tools. Mad Video lets you insert interactive tags to websites, images, or other video directly into YouTube videos. WireWax lets you insert a different audio track into the original video, while Blubbr creates video-based quizzes. Have fun!

"A whole course can be organized around a wiki as shown here, an excerpt from the upcoming Multimedia Kit, "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" which will include his book of the same name, a video, and a facilitator's guide from Corwin (corwinpress.com)." A concise (3 min) video on how to organize a course using wikis, with interviews with students. The course also uses Diigo to annotate readings. One students says it really makes her a better reader. As you read others' annotations, "It's really another way of having a discussion."

"Most people don't think about the useful editing tools that are built into YouTube. The YouTube video editor has some useful features for teachers and students." The tools R. Byrne's describes are photo slideshow creation, slow-motion, annotation to link videos, blurring faces, stabilizing footage, and adding color/light filters. You can also add captions, music track, and select privacy options. This blog entry alo links to several more ways to improve your videos and add interactive elements.

Build a video library by importing videos from YouTube, G-Drive, or Dropbox. Then control the video with the MoocNote interface to take notes that link back to the appropriate places in the videos. Access notes from anywhere and share. You can also ask questions of the community. This looks like an excellent resource and tool.

As always, an intriguing post by R. Byrne, showing how you can use several different new applications to massage video data and link together various videos you find or make. Also info on YouTube annotations.

"Within YouTube there is a free tool for creating audio slideshows. You supply the images and YouTube supplies the audio track. You can pick from thousands of audio tracks to match to your slides. After adding your slides and selecting an audio track you can add speech bubbles to your slides." "Creating an audio slideshow with annotations in YouTube is a good way for students to share the highlights of some basic research that they have conducted. " However, the audio is really just background music. I wonder if it could be adapted to adding a teacher- or student-made spoken audio track. R. Byrne

Great idea for presentations, whether yours or your students. You need to have a verifiable account and website where links will go, e.g., a blog. You then enable your YouTube account for external links. You can add annotations as speech bubble, note title, spotlight, or label. You control where it is inserted in the video.

Evernote for iPad seems to have a new interface, and this video is the most up-to-date I coud find--by J. Hannam 10/31/13. The introductory video covers just about everything, including note creation, sharing with other apps, annotating images using Skitch (built-in), and connecting with Explain Everything to create lessons. Evernote has always seemed a little more trouble than it's worth, but maybe after more trial and error, I'll get to like it. Might be useful for student projects, if the teacher is allowed to share the notes and can skillfully organize them when received. The information age really demands organization skills.

This is such a cool tool that I have to include it, even though it is not free -- just .99 cents U.S. Create your screencast directly on an iPod and upload it as MP4 directly to YouTube. You can draw on the website with a marker, draw tool, or laser point in different colors and two different styles. Annotations scroll with the page. Will not record video content, however. Purchase in iTunes or Apple Store.

This is a great article on using some of YouTube's lesser-known features: annotations to great adaptive listening exercise, playback speed control, and Safeshare links to remove ads for student viewing. This is a must-read article if you use video with your ESL/EFL students.

"Here is how it looks when you are using outliner to organize bookmarks, annotations and notes." A short video and an actual outliner to show how this feature of Diigo works.

This video lesson plan encourages "thinking notes" that "require students to track their response to a text and engage in more thoughtful reading? " Good idea that can be readily adapted to ESL/EFL reading classes.

Flash-based articulatory functions, video and audio support.