Flipped Classroom-Students engaging with video is a video tutorial on how we can make use of Google Slides and YouTube to get our students engaging with videos and leaving comments. This is a really simple but effective tip that can be used in both the classroom or for homework.
EDpuzzle is an educational site to help you better utilize video in your classroom for learning. You can find and crop video to use only what you need, add audio notes within the video or do some voice over work for a video, and you can embed questions throughout the video to track student understanding. EDpuzzle collects data as students watch and interact with the video. You can see if and when a student watched the video, and see the progress of all students through the answers to embedded questions. You can also upload your own videos like screencasts.. Click here for overview and implementation ideas. iPad App | video | video tutorial EDpuzzle the excellent free tool that educators everywhere are using to flip their classroom/lessons and assess student learning, just released their "School Channel". This channel allows teachers to share/copy other video lessons from their colleagues. android app | iPad
NEW When you use EDpuzzle's Live Mode you project a video on a screen in the front of your classroom. Students watch the video on your projected screen while they have their laptops or tablets open. Then when a question appears in the video the video pauses and the question automatically appears on your students' screen for them to answer. As the teacher you can instantly see which students have answered and how they answered. Video Tutorial on Live Mode works. www.freetecdh4teachers.com
ClassHook is a service that you can use to find and share video clips according to topic, subject, and standard. Within ClassHook there are features called Pause Prompts and Live Discussions. Pause Prompts are time-stamped questions that you add to video clips in ClassHook. When you're showing a video to your class, the questions you've written as Pause Prompts will automatically pop-up at the timestamp you've specified. www.freetecch4teachers.com
ClickView is a tool that you can use to create interactive video lessons with videos you've made as well as with videos you find online. What I like about ClickView is its clean and simple interface. In ClickView you can add short-answer, multiple choice, and true/false questions into the timeline of a video. You can also add annotations to a video in the ClickView editor. A feature of ClickView that many teachers will like is the ability to prevent students from skipping ahead to simply guess at the answers instead of actually watching the video. Your completed ClickView lessons can be shared to Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, or any other LMS of your choosing.Watch this video. www.freetecch4teachers.com
Screencastify Makes Video Quizzes Easier with Interactive Questions Feature - Google extension
- Interactive Questions to add multiple choice quizzes to your videos so you can assess student understanding
- And Viewer Analytics to see who has viewed your videos to track student engagement
Ted-Ed Lessons Use lessons already created by others or make your own with questions, links, images and discussions. Ted.Ed: A five minute introduction-Flip & Blend your learning How to use TED-ED Lessons
- How to Find TED-Ed Lessons by Grade Level www.freetech4teachers.com
H5P Similar to Edpuzzle
Playposit (formally educanon) A site similar to EDpuzzle that allows educators to edit a video and add quizzes. Multiple choice questions. Capability to monitor student responses. Student registration but no email necessary. You can crop the part of video that you want to use and set questions for a specific point in the video, Use Youtube, Vimeo and Teachertube videos. Good information in FAQ How-to video tutorials
ReClipped is an educational tool to use to annotate and create video snippets. It allows you to collect relevant parts from videos, add your comments and notes to them and then share them with others. You can trim videos and choose specific timestamps for the start and end of your snippet. Reclipped has recently added a great feature called ’Summary Note’. A summary note is ‘a special snippet for quick note-taking on videos. It is like a Scribble Pad, where you can write your thoughts and ideas in the form of bullet points, while watching the video to help you revisit them quickly,
ESL Video Create quizzes to go with videos. ESL Video is great for ELLs though, like TED-Ed, its “interactivity” comes after the video is watched instead of during it, as is the case with the iSL Collective and EDPuzzle, the next one on this list. See “ESL Video” Improvements Turn Good Site Into Great One.
- newer feature on the site – the ability to create interactive videos
Bookmark It is a free Chrome extension that can solve a problem many people face when trying to show students just a specific part of a video. That problem is having to scroll along the timeline of a YouTube video to find the spot that you want to share. Bookmark It lets you add timestamped bookmarks and notes to the timeline of a video. video www.freetech4teachers.com/
Interactive activities based around English songs 3 FREE websites useful for listening and ESL activities. Students can study on their own, do the activities and get feedback. It can encourage autonomy and get students motivated. Video overviews and tutorials
- https://lyricstraining.com/ and IOS app | Android app
- https://www.learnenglishwithbsc.com/
- esolcourses.com/topics/learn-english-with-songs.html
MoocNote is a tool for adding timestamped comments, questions, and links to videos. MoocNote allows you to organize playlists (MoocNote calls them courses) of videos according to topics that you identify. MoocNote could be a good tool for middle and high school teachers who want to organize playlists of videos for their students and add some clarifying information to those videos.
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ytCropper lets you share just a portion of a YouTube video by specifying the start time and end time of the video that you want others to see. To do this simply go to the ytCropper site then paste in the URL of the YouTube video that you want to share. Once you have done that you can specify the start and end time of the portion of the video that you want people to watch. ytCropper will generate a link to the cropped version of the video. Share that link to have people watch your specified portion of the video. ( www.freetech4teachers.com)
Annotate Videos
- VideoAnt
- By using VideoANT anyone can add annotations to any publicly accessible YouTube video. To do this copy the URL of a video and paste it into the VideoANT annotation tool. Then as the video plays click the "add annotation" button when you want to add an annotation. To have others annotate the video with you, just send them the VideoANT link. Here's a video of how it works. www.freetech4teachers.com
- ReClipped
- ReClipped is a neat tool that lets you take notes, share notes, and share clips from educational videos. With a ReClipped account you can clip sections of videos that you find on YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Coursera, and TED. In addition to clipping you can create time-stamped notes about the videos that you clip. A Pinterest-like aspect of ReClipped appears if you choose to share your clips and notes on a board. ReClipped boards can be shared publicly or kept private. Here's a demonstration of how ReClipped works. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Timelinely
- Timelinely is a free service for adding annotations to YouTube videos. You can use Timelinely to add text, image, and video annotations to any public YouTube video. After you have added your annotations to a video you can share the annotated version with anyone much like you would share any other video. You can share your annotated video by embedding it into a blog post or by just giving people the link to the annotated version of the video. In the following video I demonstrate how to use Timelinely to annotate YouTube videos. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Bookmark It
- Bookmark It is a free Chrome extension that can solve a problem many people face when trying to show students just a specific part of a video. That problem is having to scroll along the timeline of a YouTube video to find the spot that you want to share. Bookmark It lets you add timestamped bookmarks and notes to the timeline of a video. Once you've added your bookmarks and notes you can return directly to them from the Bookmark It extension. Watch my video that is embedded below to see how Bookmark It works. www.freetech4teachers.com
Watch2gether is a neat site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. www.freetech4teachers.com
Vynchronize is a tool that lets you create an online room in which you can watch a video while chatting about it with other viewers at the same time. www.freetech4teachers.com
YouTube annotations to create interactive or choose-your-own-adventure video series. video tutorial
- Youtube Annotations Create tags, links and comment features to youtube videos. Adds interactivity
- Create and edit annotations
- Advanced tips for annotations usage
- Associated Website Annotations
- InVideo Programming
- Merch annotations
- Link to fundraising sites through annotations
Vizia is a web tool that allows you to create interactive and engaging videos. You can ask questions, multi-choice quizzes, and collect feedback through your videos.You can also use it to insert polls, and short answer questions into your videos with a ground-breaking new interface. Videos created via Vizie embeddable anywhere online. video tutorial
Text2VoiceOver is a service that will let you type the words that you want to hear spoken over a video. You can use Text2VoiceOver to create a voice over for a video that you have found on YouTube. Text2VoiceOver can also be used to create a voice over for a video that you have stored on your computer. video
Teachem create lessons based on video(s). On Teachem teachers can build courses that are composed of a series of videos hosted on YouTube. Teachers can write questions and comments in "flashcards" that are tied to specific parts of each video and display next to each video. Students can take notes while watching the videos using the Teachem SmartNote system. Basically you post a question and the student clicks a button to see the answer. Creating Course Tutorial | Flashcards tutorial
Comment Bubble Visit Website: Customizable video-response tool allows easy student feedback
Popcorn Maker add annotations right onto a video
Vibby is a service for breaking YouTube and Vimeo videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then plays only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website. tutorial
TAGX allows you to create video highlights and annotate the interesting parts of a video.
Adobe Spark is a versatile tool that I've used to help students make video book trailers, to create video biographies, and to showcase the highlights of their digital portfolios. But until now there was one thing missing from Adobe Spark. That thing was a collaboration option. Today, Adobe addressed that need by adding a collaboration option to Adobe Spark. The new collaboration option in Adobe Spark will let you invite people to edit and comment on your projects. To invite collaborators you'll simply enter their email addresses and they can then jump into your project. Projects that you have been invited to join will appear under a new "shared with you" tab in your Adobe Spark dashboard.
Apollo Create lessons in seconds from presentations (not sure about videos). Drag and drop your existing presentations, search high quality creative-commons licensed images, and import directly from Google Drive. Good support videos Annotate: Apollo records your drawing and voice while your students follow in real time from their device, whether they are in your classroom or across an ocean. Engage: Host live quizzes, field questions, and even hand off drawing control to one of your students. video overview
Google Forms is a great platform for creating all kinds of simple quiz and review activities. One of the features of Google Forms that is often overlooked is the "go to section based on answer" setting. When you use that setting correctly you can send students to watch a review video when they answer a question incorrectly in your Form. In the five minute video shows how to create a Google Form that prompts students to watch review videos when they answer questions
Clip Choose is different because your polls are based on videos.
The audience votes for their favorite video or whatever prompt you give them regarding the videos. For example, Clip Choose could be a good tool to use to create video quizzes for a lesson about bias and propaganda. When teaching students about types of propaganda I could put two or three videos in Clip Choose and ask students to select the one that demonstrates the use of a particular propaganda technique.
mysimpleshow With this web-based video tool teachers and students can make their own animated explainer video. It’s free to use and teachers can create videos that show students how to complete a task, or use it as an option for students to record a video that demonstrates their understanding. It gives both teachers and students an opportunity to create a shareable product. mysimpleshow gives users the option to choose a storyline to structure their thoughts and add images to their video. There is also the option for users to add a voiceover by recording their voice or using a computer character. The new PowerPoint import feature makes the process quicker and easier than before. There’s no need to write a script from scratch anymore since users simply upload their PowerPoint to mysimpleshow and it extracts the most relevant text setting it up in a script format. video
- Explanation Essentials Guide, which is designed to shake up your approach to presenting and provide useful strategies that focus on clarity and explanation excellence. Click here to download the guide (PDF)
- Chalkmotion is an intriguing free tool that lets you either draw or choose “hand-drawn” illustrations to use in a slideshow (you can also add text). The intriguing part comes in when you publish your show – instead of just showing the images, it shows the the process of actually drawing
- 14 Tools and Resources to Get Students to Create Instructional Videos
Wideo added a new feature that allows you to build interactive buttons into each frame of your video. The buttons can be hyperlinked to any webpage that you like. When people are watching your video they can click the buttons to be taken to the webpage you want them to land on. For example, clicking the buttons in the video embedded below will take you to the website of my favorite animal rescue organizations.
SoundBible is a good place for students to find all kinds of free sound effects recordings. Students can download files as MP3 or WAV files. And best of all, students don't need to register on the site in order to download the files. But they do need to remember to cite the source of the sound effects as most are labeled with a Creative Commons license. Learn more about SoundBible in this short video.
Taking Notes While Watching Videos
- VideoNotes is a tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. A good tool for students to use to take notes, ask questions, and answer questions while watching "flipped" instruction videos. video tutorial | Integrate with Google Classroom directions. | video for Google Drive
- Vialogues (Video + Dialogue ) is an online video with a group discussion feature. Vialogue allows users to interact with videos by adding time stamped comments to them. This can be a great tool for teachers to use with their students to get them engaged in video prompted discussions.To get started, upload a video, grab one from YouTube, or choose one from the growing collection on our site. Once you’ve created a vialogue, you can encourage thoughtful conversations by posing questions, adding polls, and replying to comments. You can even embed a vialogue into your website, LMS, or blog. video
- VoiceTube (Also an App) It has free video content with scripts, definitions but also allows for note taking. The notes become clickable, so students can click on them and go straight to that part of the video.
- ReClipped take notes, share notes, and share clips from educational videos. ReClipped blends the best aspects of TurboNote, VideoNot.es, and Pinterest into one slick system. With a ReClipped account you can clip sections of videos that you find on YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Coursera, and TED. In addition to clipping you can create time-stamped notes about the videos that you clip. The Pinterest-like aspect of ReClipped appears if you choose to share your clips and notes on a board. ReClipped boards can be shared publicly or kept private.
- TurboNote is a Chrome extension that lets you take time-stamped notes while watching videos on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and many other video sharing sites. Updates feature transcript search and synced viewing where you can invite other TurboNote users to take notes with you in real-time. To do this you create a TurboNote "event" then invite others to join by sending them the link to your event. Once people have joined your TurboNote event you can can sync the video time to watch videos at the same pace. You can then chat about the video in real-time. Video demo
Framebench is a cloud based platform that enables users to come together and view visual assets(images & videos) in perfect sync, mark and annotate over them, change color composition in real time while chatting over the inbuilt voice channel. All these changes are then available for rest of the team to be viewed at a later time. Touchcast is a real-time compositing app engine that allows creators to embed interactive elements, web pages, docs, videos, pictures int the video image content itself. The viewer player allows the viewer to interact with the elements, overview video
Touchcast is a real-time compositing engine that allows creators to embed interactive elements, web pages, docs, videos, pictures int the video image content itself. The viewer player allows the viewer to interact with the elements,
ThingLink for Video allows you to easily add interactive elements to public videos on YouTube. This is a great way to add rich layers of information and resources to videos you share with students. You can for instance add links to websites where students can read more on the topic of the video, or add links to other videos. video tutorial You can also annotate your video by adding text and hyperlinks. Watch the video 4 Ways to Transform Student Projects with ThingLink for Video
Answer Pad web-based and iPad app Gauge understanding in the classroom while teaching a new concept in the classroom. Engaging students in a hands- on way, giving more reluctant students an opportunity to show what they know during class time, can provide teachers with timely and crucial data that drives instruction, and positively impacts learning.
Video sharing sites are visual Wikipedias
HapYak allows you to add text, links and image overlays to your videos. You can also easily annotate your YouTube and Vimeo videos and create quizzes using multiple choice and free-text questions. it also lets you draw on your videos, share commentaries and link to any specific moment in the video.
ClassHook helps finding educational moments from popular television shows and movies. Teachers can use ClassHook by making connections to popular television shows and movies. Not only does ClassHook save time you time as you search for the “just right” video, it helps you locate engaging, inspiring, and culturally-relevant video content that is appropriate for your next lesson. The demo video New added a feature called Pause Prompts that enables you to add discussion questions to the videos that you find through their site. video from www.freetech4teachers
ytCropper lets you share just a portion of a YouTube video by specifying the start time and end time of the video that you want others to see. To do this simply go to the ytCropper site then paste in the URL of the YouTube video that you want to share. Once you have done that you can specify the start and end time of the portion of the video that you want people to watch. ytCropper will generate a link to the cropped version of the video. Share that link to have people watch your specified portion of the video. ( www.freetech4teachers.com)
Know Lounge is a complementary service to the Know Recorder app (see below). Know Lounge lets you create an online room in which you can host tutoring sessions and record videos. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to use Know Lounge as teacher. video tutorial
Comment Bubble lets you leave comments on videos collaboratively. After you sign up, you can upload your own videos or paste the link of a Youtube or a Vimeo link. Then you can change your video setting such as the title, description, visibility and most importantly, you can customize the 5 different comment buttons that you want your students to click on as they watch the video. When you are done, you can send the link to your students and wait for their responses. As the students watch the video, they can vote on the comment buttons, or they can leave comments by writing, recording their voices or filming themselves. The comments are automatically added to the thread.The students can also reply comments on each other’s comments. The all comments will be visible to everyone.
Vibby a service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website. Vibby could be a good tool to use when you want to share with your students just a few pieces of a larger video. Using the comments in highlighted sections could be a good way to call attention to important parts of a video or to add further explanation to a section.
Write-on Video is a user-friendly ipad app that allows you to annotate and animate videos and pictures. Arrange photos and videos into a stunning slideshows complemented by free-hand drawing, text boxes, stickers, audio and sound clips. Write-on Video automatically organizes each annotated frame into a storyboard so that you can add comments and information beside each scene. All text in the storyboard is true text that can be edited in reader app 3.99
Verso - A innovative site/app where educators can create Flipped Lessons that students can respond to.
OpenEd is a free service that has created a huge catalog of educational videos and games that you can browse by topic, grade level, or Common Core standard. The service launched last fall and has steadily added new features since then. The latest addition to OpenEd is an assessment creation tool.
Grockit Answers - create a Q/A session for any YouTube video.
The Mad Video is a service for creating interactive videos. The service is kind of like ThingLink for videos. Using The Mad Video you can take a video that is hosted on YouTube and insert interactive tags. The tags can link to websites, images, or other video clips. People can see your tags when they place their cursors over your video. You can add multiple tags to each video in your The Mad Video account.
Youtube Annotations Create tags, links and comment features to youtube videos. Adds interactivity
WireWax takes the concept of YouTube annotations and makes it much better. 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. The processing takes time,but once done the tagging goes quickly. To create a tag just advanced the video to the spot I wanted to tag, draw a box around what you want to tag, then select the wireWax YouTube app to put a video within the original video.
Comment Bubble a website for recording and graphing viewers reactions to videos. Here is how to use it: upload a video or paste a YouTube link to create a video page. There are five comment buttons that you can customize for viewers to press when they see the things that you want to know. Viewers can also record video or audio comment right from the browser and type notes for you.
Flipgrid is a new site/community/app that reminds me of a more "adult" version of Voicethread. This is a nice site/community and iPad app that allows educators to record a video (asking a question) called a grid and then have students respond via their own video. Educators can then view through their admin page which videos have been viewed, questions answered, etc. Best of all Flipgrid has an educational portal where students don't need an email address or account to access teacher's grids, as well as many privacy options for educators to control. Finally, a Flipgrid can be embedded into a site and easily integrated into any LMS (Learning Management System).Disco Library
The Disco Library is an excellent place to see examples of Flipgrid in action. Search for topics by grade level, subject area, and topic goals. Do you like one of the topics? You can make a copy and customize it to your needs! This is a great time saver and support for educators, who might not feel comfortable developing a topic.
Embed Plus is a tool for editing and annotating videos that you find on YouTube. Embed Plus allows you to start a video at any point you specify. You can also use Embed Plus to skip scenes in a video, play it in slow motion, zoom into an area of a video, and annotate a video.The annotation feature of Embed Plus is a nice complement to the real-time reactions feature offered by Embed Plus. Real-time reactions pulls in Twitter and YouTube comments about your chosen video. The annotation feature lets you comment on specific parts of a video. Your annotations can include links that you insert.
Apollo creates a classroom experience so immersive, that it is more interesting to pay attention than to daydream. It transforms old lessons seamlessly into the digital world and lets you capture student feedback in a way never before possible. Create lessons in seconds. Drag and drop your existing presentations, search high quality creative-commons licensed images, and import directly from Google Drive. Annotate Apollo records your drawing and voice while your students follow in real time from their device, whether they are in your classroom or across an ocean. Host live quizzes, field questions, and even hand off drawing control to one of your students.
Blubbr is a quiz creation service that you can use to create video-based quizzes. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. To create a quiz on Blubbr start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices. Repeat the process for as many video clips as you like
ClassHook helps finding educational moments from popular television shows and movies. Teachers can use ClassHook by making connections to popular television shows and movies. Not only does ClassHook save time you time as you search for the “just right” video, it helps you locate engaging, inspiring, and culturally-relevant video content that is appropriate for your next lesson. The demo video New added a feature called Pause Prompts that enables you to add discussion questions to the videos that you find through their site. video from www.freetech4teachers
ytCropper lets you share just a portion of a YouTube video by specifying the start time and end time of the video that you want others to see. To do this simply go to the ytCropper site then paste in the URL of the YouTube video that you want to share. Once you have done that you can specify the start and end time of the portion of the video that you want people to watch. ytCropper will generate a link to the cropped version of the video. Share that link to have people watch your specified portion of the video. ( www.freetech4teachers.com)
Know Lounge is a complementary service to the Know Recorder app (see below). Know Lounge lets you create an online room in which you can host tutoring sessions and record videos. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to use Know Lounge as teacher. video tutorial
Comment Bubble lets you leave comments on videos collaboratively. After you sign up, you can upload your own videos or paste the link of a Youtube or a Vimeo link. Then you can change your video setting such as the title, description, visibility and most importantly, you can customize the 5 different comment buttons that you want your students to click on as they watch the video. When you are done, you can send the link to your students and wait for their responses. As the students watch the video, they can vote on the comment buttons, or they can leave comments by writing, recording their voices or filming themselves. The comments are automatically added to the thread.The students can also reply comments on each other’s comments. The all comments will be visible to everyone.
Vibby a service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you've highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website. Vibby could be a good tool to use when you want to share with your students just a few pieces of a larger video. Using the comments in highlighted sections could be a good way to call attention to important parts of a video or to add further explanation to a section.
Write-on Video is a user-friendly ipad app that allows you to annotate and animate videos and pictures. Arrange photos and videos into a stunning slideshows complemented by free-hand drawing, text boxes, stickers, audio and sound clips. Write-on Video automatically organizes each annotated frame into a storyboard so that you can add comments and information beside each scene. All text in the storyboard is true text that can be edited in reader app 3.99
Verso - A innovative site/app where educators can create Flipped Lessons that students can respond to.
OpenEd is a free service that has created a huge catalog of educational videos and games that you can browse by topic, grade level, or Common Core standard. The service launched last fall and has steadily added new features since then. The latest addition to OpenEd is an assessment creation tool.
- OpenEd's assessment creation tool is designed to help teachers create Common Core-aligned assessments. To get started you have to create an accountant on OpenEd.io. Click the "assessments" tab then the "create" button to start building your standards-aligned resources. After titling your assessment you can choose the standards that your assessment will address. You can choose as many standards as you like. With your standards identified you can move on to adding questions to your assessment. Assessment questions can be created from scratch you can choose some of the questions that OpenEd recommends based on your standards choices. You can also search for questions on OpenEd and add them to your assessments.
- The best feature of the OpenEd assessment creation tool is the option to associate images and videos with specific questions. This option not only allows you to use media in your questions, but it also allows your students to see suggested review resources when they don't reach a standard on your assessment.
Grockit Answers - create a Q/A session for any YouTube video.
The Mad Video is a service for creating interactive videos. The service is kind of like ThingLink for videos. Using The Mad Video you can take a video that is hosted on YouTube and insert interactive tags. The tags can link to websites, images, or other video clips. People can see your tags when they place their cursors over your video. You can add multiple tags to each video in your The Mad Video account.
Youtube Annotations Create tags, links and comment features to youtube videos. Adds interactivity
- Advanced tips for annotations usage
- Associated Website Annotations
- InVideo Programming
- Merch annotations
- Link to fundraising sites through annotations
WireWax takes the concept of YouTube annotations and makes it much better. 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. The processing takes time,but once done the tagging goes quickly. To create a tag just advanced the video to the spot I wanted to tag, draw a box around what you want to tag, then select the wireWax YouTube app to put a video within the original video.
Comment Bubble a website for recording and graphing viewers reactions to videos. Here is how to use it: upload a video or paste a YouTube link to create a video page. There are five comment buttons that you can customize for viewers to press when they see the things that you want to know. Viewers can also record video or audio comment right from the browser and type notes for you.
Flipgrid is a new site/community/app that reminds me of a more "adult" version of Voicethread. This is a nice site/community and iPad app that allows educators to record a video (asking a question) called a grid and then have students respond via their own video. Educators can then view through their admin page which videos have been viewed, questions answered, etc. Best of all Flipgrid has an educational portal where students don't need an email address or account to access teacher's grids, as well as many privacy options for educators to control. Finally, a Flipgrid can be embedded into a site and easily integrated into any LMS (Learning Management System).Disco Library
The Disco Library is an excellent place to see examples of Flipgrid in action. Search for topics by grade level, subject area, and topic goals. Do you like one of the topics? You can make a copy and customize it to your needs! This is a great time saver and support for educators, who might not feel comfortable developing a topic.
Embed Plus is a tool for editing and annotating videos that you find on YouTube. Embed Plus allows you to start a video at any point you specify. You can also use Embed Plus to skip scenes in a video, play it in slow motion, zoom into an area of a video, and annotate a video.The annotation feature of Embed Plus is a nice complement to the real-time reactions feature offered by Embed Plus. Real-time reactions pulls in Twitter and YouTube comments about your chosen video. The annotation feature lets you comment on specific parts of a video. Your annotations can include links that you insert.
Apollo creates a classroom experience so immersive, that it is more interesting to pay attention than to daydream. It transforms old lessons seamlessly into the digital world and lets you capture student feedback in a way never before possible. Create lessons in seconds. Drag and drop your existing presentations, search high quality creative-commons licensed images, and import directly from Google Drive. Annotate Apollo records your drawing and voice while your students follow in real time from their device, whether they are in your classroom or across an ocean. Host live quizzes, field questions, and even hand off drawing control to one of your students.
Blubbr is a quiz creation service that you can use to create video-based quizzes. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. To create a quiz on Blubbr start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices. Repeat the process for as many video clips as you like
VideoNotes is a tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. A good tool for students to use to take notes, ask questions, and answer questions while watching "flipped" instruction videos.
Synchtube - Create a public or private room where users can view the same video and chat in real time.
Synchtube - Create a public or private room where users can view the same video and chat in real time.
iPad Apps
Together Learn, the app provides the chance for multiple people, in different places, to watch the same video in real time while at the same time having live video / audio chats while at the same time using a live shared chalkboard. The app lets you fast-forward, rewind, skip chapters, and pause a wide variety of videos while it lets you video conference.
Verso - A innovative site/app where educators can create Flipped Lessons that students can respond to.
Answer Pad web-based and iPad app Gauge understanding in the classroom while teaching a new concept in the classroom. Engaging students in a hands- on way, giving more reluctant students an opportunity to show what they know during class time, can provide teachers with timely and crucial data that drives instruction, and positively impacts learning.
Know Recorder is a free iPad app and free Android app for creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. With Know Recorder installed on your iPad or Android device you can draw and talk while the app records everything that you do and say.
Write-on Video is a user-friendly tool that allows you to annotate and animate videos and pictures. Arrange photos and videos into a stunning slideshows complemented by free-hand drawing, text boxes, stamps, and sound clips. Write-on Video automatically organizes each annotated frame into a storyboard so that you can add comments and information beside each scene. $3.99
Watch2Gether is a site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. You can also use more than just YouTube videos in Watch2Gether. You can now use videos from Vimeo and Dailymotion. If audio is all that you are concerned about sharing, you will be happy to know that Watch2Gether now supports using media from Soundcloud. There is the option to moderate discussions and ban participants who are not participating appropriately.
Verso - A innovative site/app where educators can create Flipped Lessons that students can respond to.
Answer Pad web-based and iPad app Gauge understanding in the classroom while teaching a new concept in the classroom. Engaging students in a hands- on way, giving more reluctant students an opportunity to show what they know during class time, can provide teachers with timely and crucial data that drives instruction, and positively impacts learning.
Know Recorder is a free iPad app and free Android app for creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. With Know Recorder installed on your iPad or Android device you can draw and talk while the app records everything that you do and say.
Write-on Video is a user-friendly tool that allows you to annotate and animate videos and pictures. Arrange photos and videos into a stunning slideshows complemented by free-hand drawing, text boxes, stamps, and sound clips. Write-on Video automatically organizes each annotated frame into a storyboard so that you can add comments and information beside each scene. $3.99
Watch2Gether is a site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. You can also use more than just YouTube videos in Watch2Gether. You can now use videos from Vimeo and Dailymotion. If audio is all that you are concerned about sharing, you will be happy to know that Watch2Gether now supports using media from Soundcloud. There is the option to moderate discussions and ban participants who are not participating appropriately.
Interactive Slide Shows
Zoho Show It helps you create interactive presentations using simple yet sophisticated tools .It has several features that sets it apart from other presentation applications.
Nearpod is a free iOS app that teachers can use to create quizzes, polls, and multimedia presentations. These materials can be shared directly to students who have the Nearpod student app installed to engage participants and allow them to interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. Teachers can view students' responses individually or as a whole class. It also lets you be a fully engaged participant and interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. video | video 2
EverySlide is a free (for educators and students) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, and Android devices used by members of your audience. As you move through your shared slides you can pop-up a poll to gather feedback from your audience. EverySlide supports PowerPoint and Keynote slides. To get started just upload your slides to EverySlide (you can re-use uploaded slides for multiple groups). When you're ready to present give your audience the access code for your slides. At the end of your presentation you can grab a spreadsheet of the responses to your poll questions. Watch the video
Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.
Vyew is an online presentation tool that does not require you to download anything and can be used for free with up to 20 participants. Vyew offers tools for uploading slides and talking about them with other participants. You can also upload documents and annotate and discuss them with other participants in your Vyew room. Vyew provides you with a whiteboard on which you can type and draw. If you want to share your computer's screen with other people in your Vyew room you can do that too. Vyew users can talk to each other using voice and text chat.
Mix.office.com is a free, easy way to take your PowerPoint presentations in Windows and bring them to life as interactive online lessons. From recording audio or video of yourself giving a lecture, to directly marking up the presentation as you would at your whiteboard, to quizzing, to sharing, and creating. This solution allows you to take existing PowerPoint slides and insert quizzes, videos, apps, and other content from open source services like Khan Academy and CK-12, and screen capture, narrate, and markup the slides with or without video capture of you while you are presenting. You can then share it with anyone on the Mix Gallery site. Your new Mix can be viewed directly in any web browser. Office Mix Video overview
ParticiPoll is a service that you can use to add interactive polls to your PowerPoint presentations. Your polls are created and delivered within your PowerPoint slides. Once you've added ParticiPoll to your PowerPoint you can create as many polls as you like. The best aspect of ParticiPoll is that you don't have to leave your slidedeck at all in order to administer the poll and see the results of your poll.
Your audience can respond to your ParticiPoll poll through their cell phones, tablets, or laptops. To respond they simply go to the URL for your poll and choose a response. When you want to display the poll results you just click to the next element in your PowerPoint slidedeck and the results are displayed for all to see. All polls are anonymous. video overview
Viddix - And now for Something completely different! With this tool you get two panels on your screen. The first displays a video, the second displays text, pictures, links, videos, polls and other things you may want to include. The two panels work independently but are also connected if that makes sense. So for example, you can pause the video panel and click on a live link in the other panel to explore what the person was talking about. You can then restart the video and it will move the slides in the other panel from where you had originally left off.
SlideIdea create engaging presentations/slideshows. An educator can either create a presentation from scratch or use one of the many downloadable templates. Once a presentation is done a teacher can share them w/ students through the use of unique ID code. Also, an educator can use SlideIdea to poll, ask questions, or assess their students, and is great for Differentiated Instruction.
StoryDesk is a collection of interactive templates. These templates do all kinds of stuff – ranging from video playback, to file storage, to playful and engaging ways to make your existing content interactive. To begin, you first download StoryDesk from the Apple App Store. It’s a free app (at least the basic version is). Once you’ve registered, you can tap the + button to create a new presentation. From here, a few templates are automatically dropped in to the presentation. But the first thing you’ll notice is that the structure of the presentation looks nothing like a typical slide show. It’s nonlinear – meaning you can organize your slides in a grid. This is really interesting, as it lets the presenter create hierarchies of content. The important stuff can live at the top, while the finer points can be layered below. It’s very novel way to present.
Creating Content Adding content to the templates is as simple as tapping and holding on the templates. Here you can add photos or text or video (and more).
The files are imported from the cloud – either using one of the many storage services StoryDesk integrates with (Google, Dropbox, Box, and more). Files can also be uploaded to StoryDesk’s content management, found at StoryDesk.com.
StoryDesk’s Interactive Templates are phenomenal. I counted close to 50, and they’re all designed for touch-interactivity. My favorites were Robusto, Burns, and VideoStar. The templates make creating a beautiful presentation idiot proof.
easy.
Navigation This is where StoryDesk differs dramatically from the typical slide show. Instead of only being able to flip left and right, StoryDesk enables nonlinear navigation. With a single swipe I can navigate to any screen I need to. This very much changes the flow of presentations. Instead of the content driving the conversation, the content can support the conversation. It reflects the changing nature of presentations, which are a lot more conversational and interactive than they used to be.
RoundtableTM
Roundtable is StoryDesk’s latest feature. It lets a presenter guide a group presentation from her device to up to 10,000 iPads. Seriously. I don’t know who presents to audiences of 10,000, but it’s nice to know you can. The audience can follow along and interact with the content, but only the presenter has the power to advance to the next screen.
Watch this video to learn more about StoryDesk
QuizSlides Create multiple choice formative or summative assessments from PowerPoint or PDF files. video
Nearpod is a free iOS app that teachers can use to create quizzes, polls, and multimedia presentations. These materials can be shared directly to students who have the Nearpod student app installed to engage participants and allow them to interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. Teachers can view students' responses individually or as a whole class. It also lets you be a fully engaged participant and interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more. video | video 2
EverySlide is a free (for educators and students) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, and Android devices used by members of your audience. As you move through your shared slides you can pop-up a poll to gather feedback from your audience. EverySlide supports PowerPoint and Keynote slides. To get started just upload your slides to EverySlide (you can re-use uploaded slides for multiple groups). When you're ready to present give your audience the access code for your slides. At the end of your presentation you can grab a spreadsheet of the responses to your poll questions. Watch the video
Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.
Vyew is an online presentation tool that does not require you to download anything and can be used for free with up to 20 participants. Vyew offers tools for uploading slides and talking about them with other participants. You can also upload documents and annotate and discuss them with other participants in your Vyew room. Vyew provides you with a whiteboard on which you can type and draw. If you want to share your computer's screen with other people in your Vyew room you can do that too. Vyew users can talk to each other using voice and text chat.
Mix.office.com is a free, easy way to take your PowerPoint presentations in Windows and bring them to life as interactive online lessons. From recording audio or video of yourself giving a lecture, to directly marking up the presentation as you would at your whiteboard, to quizzing, to sharing, and creating. This solution allows you to take existing PowerPoint slides and insert quizzes, videos, apps, and other content from open source services like Khan Academy and CK-12, and screen capture, narrate, and markup the slides with or without video capture of you while you are presenting. You can then share it with anyone on the Mix Gallery site. Your new Mix can be viewed directly in any web browser. Office Mix Video overview
ParticiPoll is a service that you can use to add interactive polls to your PowerPoint presentations. Your polls are created and delivered within your PowerPoint slides. Once you've added ParticiPoll to your PowerPoint you can create as many polls as you like. The best aspect of ParticiPoll is that you don't have to leave your slidedeck at all in order to administer the poll and see the results of your poll.
Your audience can respond to your ParticiPoll poll through their cell phones, tablets, or laptops. To respond they simply go to the URL for your poll and choose a response. When you want to display the poll results you just click to the next element in your PowerPoint slidedeck and the results are displayed for all to see. All polls are anonymous. video overview
Viddix - And now for Something completely different! With this tool you get two panels on your screen. The first displays a video, the second displays text, pictures, links, videos, polls and other things you may want to include. The two panels work independently but are also connected if that makes sense. So for example, you can pause the video panel and click on a live link in the other panel to explore what the person was talking about. You can then restart the video and it will move the slides in the other panel from where you had originally left off.
SlideIdea create engaging presentations/slideshows. An educator can either create a presentation from scratch or use one of the many downloadable templates. Once a presentation is done a teacher can share them w/ students through the use of unique ID code. Also, an educator can use SlideIdea to poll, ask questions, or assess their students, and is great for Differentiated Instruction.
StoryDesk is a collection of interactive templates. These templates do all kinds of stuff – ranging from video playback, to file storage, to playful and engaging ways to make your existing content interactive. To begin, you first download StoryDesk from the Apple App Store. It’s a free app (at least the basic version is). Once you’ve registered, you can tap the + button to create a new presentation. From here, a few templates are automatically dropped in to the presentation. But the first thing you’ll notice is that the structure of the presentation looks nothing like a typical slide show. It’s nonlinear – meaning you can organize your slides in a grid. This is really interesting, as it lets the presenter create hierarchies of content. The important stuff can live at the top, while the finer points can be layered below. It’s very novel way to present.
Creating Content Adding content to the templates is as simple as tapping and holding on the templates. Here you can add photos or text or video (and more).
The files are imported from the cloud – either using one of the many storage services StoryDesk integrates with (Google, Dropbox, Box, and more). Files can also be uploaded to StoryDesk’s content management, found at StoryDesk.com.
StoryDesk’s Interactive Templates are phenomenal. I counted close to 50, and they’re all designed for touch-interactivity. My favorites were Robusto, Burns, and VideoStar. The templates make creating a beautiful presentation idiot proof.
easy.
Navigation This is where StoryDesk differs dramatically from the typical slide show. Instead of only being able to flip left and right, StoryDesk enables nonlinear navigation. With a single swipe I can navigate to any screen I need to. This very much changes the flow of presentations. Instead of the content driving the conversation, the content can support the conversation. It reflects the changing nature of presentations, which are a lot more conversational and interactive than they used to be.
RoundtableTM
Roundtable is StoryDesk’s latest feature. It lets a presenter guide a group presentation from her device to up to 10,000 iPads. Seriously. I don’t know who presents to audiences of 10,000, but it’s nice to know you can. The audience can follow along and interact with the content, but only the presenter has the power to advance to the next screen.
Watch this video to learn more about StoryDesk
QuizSlides Create multiple choice formative or summative assessments from PowerPoint or PDF files. video