Sometimes you just want to have you students take intermittent notes on particular time lapses of the video. What we also found awesome is that you can make your videos more engaging with H5P and interactive video on WordPress, Moodle and Drupal and it lets you track student performance. H5P Interactive video is an HTML5 based interactive video content type allowing users to add multiple choice and fill in the blank questions, pop-up text and other types of interactions to their videos using only a web browser. But for this post, we are only discussing its interactive video feature. H5P is much more than an interactive video platform. We are presenting them in preference of open source technologies as we support and acknowledge the efforts put into open source technologies as opposed to for-profit edtechs.
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This is why we have listed 8 free video tools that can help you, more or less, build activities or questions around videos students watch at home as part of a blended, online or flipped learning course/class. The best solution to help students think about the video they are watching is embedded questions and discussions.
Watching a 20 minute video for example might disengage a student, or might include more information than the student can retrieve. However, like reading texts, especially long intricate texts, students need embedded formative feedback. Although having students analyze and reflect on videos should be balanced with textual analysis and interpretations, videos do have the added value of using the visual and auditory channels to help students retain more information so that they can be in a better position to deconstruct the messages encoded in the video, reflect on it, and discuss with peers.
As educators, we all know that videos engage students more than reading texts.