Adding captions to your video content increases accessibility and can help to further engage students. Find out about captioning your videos – including how to use YouTube’s useful automatic captioning service!
VideoNot.es is a free, open-source online tool which allows you to take notes whilst watching videos from various online sites such as Coursera, YouTube and Vimeo. All of the notes you type are automatically synchronised with the video. This means
We’re very pleased to announce that you can now add videos from Vimeo via the Mashup tool into your module! The mashup tool greatly streamlines performance and lets you get videos directly into your module with very little effort. Blackboard
This short blog will quickly go through what you need to do to embed your YouTube video directly into a PowerPoint presentation. That is, the video will appear directly in the presentation slide and not just be a link to
It seems a while back a lot of people were on fire about Xtranormal. If you’ve never heard of Xtranormal, it’s a website where you can create your own animations in 3D with full text to speech options. It used to be free but those days are gone. The desktop version “State” is still free but at 500MB it’s not a small download. Plus you’ll find that once you’ve wasted a lunch time downloading it you still have to pay for most of the characters and scenes…
I’m very excited. Sometimes I think that doesn’t happen very often, but actually I do get quite excited by things that will make a major difference to the learning experience, the student experience, even if I then am frustrated by
