Video annotation for students!

Students have been learning to annotate text to gain a deeper understanding of what they read and to create meaningful responses after reading. The same kind of "deep viewing" is possible with video content, and two cool tools make it easy for students to annotate and share video.

VideoAnt is developed by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. It allows you to annotate any YouTube video just by loading the video and clicking to make a note. Students can share it via a URL -- one link to collaborate and one link just to view annotations. Teachers can see students' annotations either within the video or as a list with timestamps to the side of the video. Very easy to use!

ThingLink is another video annotation tool that works much the same way (load a YouTube URL and pause videos to annotate, share via URL) but the annotation must be viewed as part of the video, not as a timestamped list. (ThingLink does allow for image annotation as well.)