Monday, June 30, 2008

YouTube Video Annotations

If you have not seen it yet, YouTube has a new feature with video annotations that allows you to add interactivity to any YouTube video you have. It is a pretty slick feature that could have some great educational potential.

You can read more about it here. Here is an examples of it being used (you'll need your imagination since these are not educational uses, per se):

Magic card trick

If we could use YouTube's engine to run the web site for the CCIL student uploads (non-profits can do this via a program at YouTube and thereby gain control of what is put on the site), I could imagine this as a powerful tool for CCIL and VS students to manipulate and share their findings.

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