![]() ![]() I prefer it without comments, since any humour that may have been present in the original is destroyed by explanation. You have a comparison now, the original unannotated version on and the annotated version on YouTube. By adding these comments it changes from being a jokey nod to some of the people involved and edges closer to being an edupunk 101, ie you could use it to introduce the concept to novices now, in a way you probably couldn't with the original. So here is my edupunk video with annotations. It would be much more powerful for educators if you could add annotations to other videos. Google states that viewers don't like annotations and typically close twelve of them for every one that they do. Today, I logged into the YouTube editor and saw an announcement that Google is going to remove all existing annotations from YouTube videos on January 15th. At the moment (I don't know if there are plans to change this), you can only add annotations to your own, uploaded videos. Eighteen months ago Google removed the annotations editor from YouTube. If you combine that with the discussion permitted by comments and you've suddenly got a pretty compelling learning application. YouTube annotation allows this second order decoding. Much of teaching can be seen as providing commentary, analysis and interpretation on the world. Despite YouTube removing the annotations function, it's still poss. What adding comments does is potentially transform any video into an educational one. UPDATE: NEVERMIND Youtube have decided to discontinue this function too. ![]() So, I took my edupunk video, and added some annotations, see below. It's very easy to do (to go back to my previous post, another example of lowering the 'cost' to the user). YouTube now allows you to add annotations to your uploaded videos. ![]()
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