The ability to embed iTunes U media on any web page is possible, but not well documented. In this entry, we will review the necessary steps on how to use iTunes U media within a web page using a Flash-based...
Alexander Street Press' Critical Video Editions combine extensive collections of video with a powerful suite of searching, video clipping and sharing tools specially designed for teachers and researchers. The collections include famous and rare video from the performing arts as...
There is a lot of buzz right now around the native <video> tag specified in HTML 5. The introduction of the <video> tag is a pretty big deal. Up until now, to display video in a browser, you needed to...
VideoANT is a simple, easy-to-use online environment developed at the University of Minnesota that synchronizes video with timeline-based text annotations. VideoANT is designed to engage learners by supporting interactions between students, instructors, and their videos. VideoANT can handle YouTube...
(With numerous contributions from Brian O'Hagan.) As YouTube improves its video service, it becomes ever more attractive to educators. Yes, YouTube is stocked with novelty videos, but it is also now a large repository of educational material. Universities are getting...
Vimeo is a video-centric social network site, supporting many features such as embedding, sharing, video storage, and user comments. Unlike YouTube and other video sharing sites, Vimeo allows only user-created videos, and caters to high-end video content creators, offering higher...
YouTube is now offering some content creators the option to add a Creative Commons license to their video uploads. In a related move, YouTube has added an option to allow downloading of certain videos. Downloadable videos are free or include...
Educators can become broadcasters with Ustream.tv. Ustream allows anyone with a computer, an Internet connection, and a webcam to quickly set up their own channel and broadcast live. The broadcast can be password protected for situations where you want to...
The flexibility of YouTube videos continues to improve with additions helpful for many educators. Here are a few highlights to add to earlier postings about YouTube features. Widescreen Video YouTube changed the aspect ratio of its video player from 4:3...
YouTube has released a new caption feature for videos. As summarized in a recent YouTube Blog posting: "[W]e've added a new captioning feature which allows you to give viewers a deeper understanding of your video. Captions can help people who...
Different video and audio players can be embedded into HTML pages, but each has its intricacies. The Center for Instructional Technology at University of California at San Francisco has put together this helpful web form, to generate the requisite HTML...
YouTube recently announced the addition of a video annotation tool. YouTube describes that users can add three types of annotations to their own videos: speech bubbles, notes, and spotlights. Links, which presently only point to other parts of YouTube, can...
More than another web-based video tool with a stupid name, Omnisio enables users to: select clips from YouTube and other video service embed comments in the video assemble your own video compilations from edits you've made sync a video to...
What is podcasting? Podcasting is a form of media delivery in which audio files are published to the Internet for users to download to their personal computers or portable media players. When new files are added to the podcast, users...