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Layering categories
Richard Byrne who writes the Free Tech 4 Teachers blog and I seem to have similar interests. In a recent post, he describes three services that allow an educator to add questions to a video. The idea is to encourage … Continue reading
Layering question stems in Insert Learning
Insert Learning is the service I recommend for educators interested in layering elements (comments, links, questions, discussion prompts) on online web pages to create learning resources. I have generated a couple of video tutorials you are welcome to explore. In … Continue reading
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Speculative Annotation
I have been writing about services for annotating online web content and video for at least five years. now. I think of what these services allow users to do as layering – adding annotations of various types on top of … Continue reading
Hypothes.is revisited
I have been writing about layering services since 2015 and continue to encounter new services and increased interest in the capabilities layering offers. Layering is the term I have tried to use to create a category of online services. There … Continue reading
EdPuzzle
This is an updated version of a post from 2019. I thought it relevant for educators still faced with teaching online when the new year begins. EdPuzzle allows the addition of elements to existing videos. I haven’t written about layering … Continue reading
Questions and studying
The “testing effect” is one of the most reliable tactics for improving the benefits of study behavior. This tactic involves the use of some study time to attempt to recall information to respond to questions. This is sometimes called “retrieval … Continue reading
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YiNote demonstration
YiNote is a Chrome extension allowing the annotation of online videos and the export of these annotations for storage and study. It is this capacity to export the notes taken with links to specific locations in the original video is … Continue reading
Perusall for social reading
Perusall offers an online environment (hosted by the company or through an LMS) that allows the annotation of pdfs and Word documents. The pdfs are either content the instructor has the rights to use in a course or digital textbooks … Continue reading
Diigo for layering
Diigo is an online service for social bookmarking. It allows a user to collect links to many online resources and to highlight, annotate, tag these resources. It is social in the sense that as a user you designate your stored … Continue reading
MoocNote for annotating video
MoocNote is a tool (web based or Chrome extension) for adding time-stamping annotations to online video. Educators could use MoocNote to add comments, questions, or links to videos students are assigned to study or could be used by a student … Continue reading