Tag Archives: layer
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
Layering explained
Layering is a term I have been using for some time to describe a category of online services that educators can use to extend existing online content to make this content more effective. This video (created using Loom) explains this … Continue reading
Layering for video lessons
A couple of popular edtech bloggers (Byrne, Ferlazzo) have just put up posts explaining how educators can develop interactive lessons for online learning making use of existing video sources. I have been writing about this topic for several years explaining … Continue reading