BubblePLY & Screenr

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

Video Editing 2.0: 8 Ways to Remix Online Videos

Video Editing 2.0: 8 Ways to Remix Online Videos

Don't have video editing software? No problem! Here are some online versions that will take you a long way. Not only do the software exist online, but so do your videos. So, your students can easily work on their videos at school and home and not worry about software or transportation of large video files.

Dan

Photo Story 3

This is a link to an application that I blogged about in a previous blog (not very active since the baby came along)

http://blog.danielcraig.com/2005/05/photo-story-3.html

Photo Story 3 is a great "free" software for designing multimedia presentations. Check it out.