Make any video your lesson
Flipped and Blended Interactive Video Learning Platform
eduCanon is a free, web-based platform that allows you to build formative assessments right on top of any YouTube or Vimeo video. Once you sign up for an account, which takes about 60 seconds, you are given access to a lesson builder, where you select a YouTube video, then create your own multiple-choice questions to go along with it. You can build your own library of video-based lessons, and even maximize higher-level thinking by asking students to create their own eduCanon lessons.
As the biggest video sharing site by a landslide, YouTube attracts people from all walks of life, for better or for worse. Yet the Google-owned company is reportedly developing a version of the site for kids under 10 years old, and has even gauged the interest of video producers willing to create child-oriented content, according to multiple sources cited by The Information.
The best tools and services to capture, edit, publish and distribute video online.
Is there a connection between movies and presentations? We believe there is. Just as with movies, your story should avoid clichés and be relevant, to engage your audience with real conflicts and strong protagonists as you move from scene to scene to arrive at a climax.
Introducing an easy way to annotate videos with rich media
ThingLink lets users add interactive links to any photo and turn them into fun web experiences that drive engagement.
Collaborate! Invite everyone in your social network to upload their photos and video clips. Create! Complete a memorable video complete with music and effects- for free. View and Share! Watch and share your video with your social network.
July 29, 2014 This week's tip for teachers is about creating videos in Google Drive. As you know, since the time Google made it possible to integrate third party apps into Google Drive, there appeared a wide variety of excellent applications that are deemed to enhance the overall performance of your Drive .
Students research, then script, then perform or record their poetry tutorials. They're confused at first, but after a little direction and purposefully not giving strict guidelines, they are on their way to develop a "lesson" on a specific poetic device or topic that can be shared in 5 minutes or less.
Earlier this week I published a post about three good video creation tools. Magisto was one of the tools that I included in that post. The other two tools were WeVideo and Wideo. Of the three Magisto is the only one for which I haven't published a tutorial at some point.
Creating flipped video lessons is one of the topics that I frequently receive questions about in my email inbox. I've started putting together some videos about how to use various tools for creating and sharing flipped video lessons. In the videos embedded below I demonstrate how use EduCanon, VideoNotes, EDpuzzle, Versal, and Otus to create and distribute flipped video lessons.
