Annotate YouTube Videos

November 5, 2015 YouTube video editor is absolutely a powerful video editing platform to use in your instruction to create and edit videos. It provides almost all the pro features you normally find in a premium video software and all for free. Our YouTube for Teachers series here in EdTech and mLearning attempts to help teachers make the best of YouTube in their teaching by providing them with educational channels designed specifically to tend to teachers educational video content as well as resources featuring tips and tricks on how to create and edit instructional videos on Youtube. In today’s post we are introducing you to a very important feature called annotations. Annotations are those pieces of information that you add to a video in the form of layered text, links and hotspots. 1- Creating annotations Here is how to access annotations and add them to your videos: Each annotation type comes with a bunch of setting options to choose from. Source: YouTube Help.

Support: Video in the Classroom Classroom video projects teach students to plan, organize, write, communicate, collaborate, and analyze. In fact, video has become so prolific that some colleges even include video submissions as part of their application process. As this media further matures, students may need to be able to express themselves as effectively through moving imagery as with the written word. Using video could be as simple as recording a student oral presentation for future review, or as elaborate as producing an original short film. Depending on the complexity of the project, consider these suggested steps for ensuring that your students create thoughtful final products that demonstrate their knowledge rather than pieces full of flash but potentially lacking in substance. One of the most complicated aspects of working with video is interpreting the various file formats that work with cameras as well as editing and publishing tools. YouTube SchoolTube SchoolTube is a k-12 specific video sharing platform.

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