Thursday, January 29, 2015

TCC 5-2 Making Videos Interactive

Having students view a video enhances learning..but wouldn't it be great if you could add notes, questions, or quizzes to the videos? Having students view independently would be good, too. Now you can!
The information for this article is gleaned from a blog post at Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
Five tools are listed there: Blubbr, teachem, Educanon, VideoNotes, EDpuzzle, and TedEd. Oops, there are two 5’s so 6 tools:

  • Blubbr focuses on the quiz aspect of this then provides feedback to their answers. 
  • In Teachem teachers can add commented, questions, and flashcard notes which are attached at appropriate points in the video. 
  • Educanon also allows you to add questions during the clip so that their value is enhanced. This site adds Vimeo videos as sources. 
  • More video sources are added by VideoNotes to include the two already mentioned plus coursera, udcity, EdX, and Khan Academy
  • Google Drive is connected to this one as a source for notes. 
  • EDpuzzle lets students or teachers clip the video in addition to already listed features of the other tools. (This was the late add.) 
  • TedEd supplies videos and allows you to add the lesson on the same site.

Enjoy!