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The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education

I disagree that this is a reinvention of education. These videos are little more than traditional lectures and tutors. It is a reinvention of content distribution with crowd sourced tutoring, which, don’t get me wrong, are both awesome.

The Khan Academy is a great repository for educational content (particularly mathematics-related topics) and a fantastic cheerleader for this combination of educational content and tutoring.

12 Fun Hacks for Getting More Out of YouTube – Some really cool ones for personal and teaching use

via mashable.com

I use YouTube so much in my classes. It’s nice having some of these tools to work with. TubeChop has been one of my favorites. It let’s you grab just the scene you want and embed it.

Some of these others look quite cool too.

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

This is a good video that briefly shows our close relationship. It is nice to see it, as brief as it is, on national TV. However, I can’t imagine that anything there was particularly surprising to Americans (yes, US Americans).

The comments section drives me nuts, though. I’m not sure why I read the comments section ever. It’s like that inner need to watch a tragedy. The best comments are people expressing pride for Canada and both groups expression appreciation for one another. At worst is it a mixture of outright trolls and left-handed complements (directed at both nations), ugh!

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BubblePLY & Screenr

[EDIT 10/3/2012 – I removed the links to BubblePLY. After trying it out again, I got virus warnings. My old video links directly to the download page now. Overall, I just have bad vibes about it and I don’t want anyone going there off of my recommendation.   However, Screenr is still wonderful.]

BubblePLY is a very cool annotation tool for online videos.  It accepts more than just YouTube, but it makes no guarantees about those it will accept.  I suppose you’ll just have to try it out and see.

 

BubblePLY enables you to put text annotations, subtitles, and even images and video on top of the video.  This is a great tool for teachers.  Imagine the benefits of being able to annotate instructional videos.

 

Here is a sample (though, not good one) from my personal video collection:

 

[edit – The embed doesn’t seem to work, which is unfortunate. I hope that they fix this. Here is the link to the video.]

 

 

Here is a screencast of the process done with Screenr.  You’ll notice the audio isn’t very good.  I think that’s my microphone (and/or audio card).  Both BubblePLY and Screenr is a great job, though.

 

TubeChop

TubeChop is a great YouTube editing tool.  No need to register or log in.

As a teacher, I often just want to show a piece, or a series of pieces of a video to a class.  TubeChop makes this easy.  Just grab the URL for the YouTube video you want to edit (or do a keyword search from the YouChop site) and paste it into the text box on the YouChop homepage.  YouChop with then load it into the editor and you can choose a range of time (the portion of the video you want to watch) using a slider for start and finish.  Then “Chop It”.

The site will them give you a link and embed code that you can use to disseminate the finished product.  Very easy and very convenient.

Give it a try.  Here is the resulting 10 second piece that I cut from a 5 minute video

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