Zeen is a cool website that you can use to create visually attractive magazines for your class. It is free and allows you to pull photos from Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, and videos from YouTube to integrate them into your your multi-page magazine.
Create a map to allow your website visitors to place pins
Create a bookmark-map: a map where only you can post
Create password-protected maps, and share them with your friends
Upload photos along with your markers
Integrate your Guestmap with Flickr, and get your photos on the map
Show your guestmap inside your own homepage!"
wireWax is a new service (still in beta) that takes the concept of YouTube annotations and makes it much better. On wireWax you can build interactive tags into your videos. Each tag that you add to your video have another video from YouTube or Vimeo or an image from Facebook, Flickr, or Instagram. A tag can also include an audio track from SoundCloud or a reference article from Qwiki.
What makes using wireWax different from using the YouTube annotations tool is that clicking on your tags (what YouTube calls annotations) does not send you outside of the video you're currently watching. This means that you can watch a video within a video or view a picture or listen to a different audio track within the original video. When you click a tag in the original video the video pauses and the tagged item is displayed.
wireWax allows you to add tags to any YouTube video that is publicly viewable and has not had embedding disabled. I tried wireWax with this five minute video. It took a while (15-20 minutes) for the video to process for tagging, but once it was processed it was easy to create a tag. To create my tag I just advanced the video to the spot I wanted to tag, drew a box around the person I was tagging, then selected the wireWax YouTube app to put a video within the original video. Check it out below by advancing to about the 1.5 minute mark.
Applications for Education
wireWax could be a great tool for adding new layers of information to educational videos. If you're creating videos for your students or your students are creating videos to share with others consider tagging key points at which viewers might have questions. At those points insert tags that reveal clarifying information in the form of a video, an image, or an audio recording.
FotoFlexer is the world's most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software. FotoFlexer was founded by Arbor Labs, a team of graduate students and alumni from the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of California at Berkeley (and just one MIT/Stanford alum too).
The need we wanted to fulfill is quite simple:
Publish whatever you like: blog, photos, videos, audios, ...
Share whatever you want with people who matter to you or with the whole world
And, last but not least, create a powerful indexing tool that enables you to locate all your information and that which others allow for sharing.