Weblectures as interactive content

With the new release of Presentations 2Go, teachers and students can now also add notes retrospectively when viewing a web lecture. These notes can be public or private. An important benefit of the new release is that students (as well as teachers) can make their notes in a secure environment.

Presentations 2Go makes a distinction between ‘moderators’ (teachers) and ‘audience’ (students). Moderators have extra possibilities. They can introduce command ‘tags’ which can be responded to. In this case, the video recording pauses and an optional link automatically opens in a separate window. The ‘assignment tags’ that are handed in are only visible to group moderators. It’s also possible to enable students to react to each other’s notes.

When watching the web lecture again, notes can be filtered using keywords (searching within a web lecture) or by user name. Finally, the (filtered) notes can also be downloaded in HTML format. This means they can be utilised usefully within existing learning environments or locally in for example Evernote or OneNote.

Adding assignment tag at a specific moment on the timeline

Educational scenarios

New educational scenarios are made possible by the introduction of rich media tagging. For example:

• Enrichment of a web lecture with additional notes and hyperlinks from teachers
• Time-independent responses or the asking of questions on the Presentations 2Go time-line, e.g. in combination with short information clips
• Execute commands whereby the web lecture automatically pauses, such as for a ‘response tag’ or a reference to an external learning or testing environment
• Online assessment and coaching of students
• Allow students to assess each other’s videos
• Download notes and place them in an e-learning environment
• Process notes in the classic way

These applications and scenarios are not only available for web lectures.
Teachers and students can also add tags to traditional video recordings.

Enrich weblectures with notes, information and hyperlinks

Benefits Rich Media Tagging:

The advantages of working with the latest release of Presentations 2Go include:

• A better unlocking of web lectures so limited time can be used more efficiently
• The possibility for students to use their mobile phones, iPads, netbooks, etc. effectively and informatively in lessons and lectures and so integrate them with the latest developments
• Enrichment of web lectures (also retrospectively) with notes, information and hyperlinks
• The unique possibility of asking questions or giving commands within the time-line (assignment-mode) and linking them to external testing or learning environments
• Extra possibilities for online coaching and supervision
• Notes and responses can be saved locally and viewed interactively using a browser

Rich Media Tagging is a standard component of Presentations 2Go Pro and Video Server

Students and teachers can make interactive contributions to lectures and web seminars easily using Live Tagging.

With Presentations 2Go, students can also use their mobile phones or laptops to share tags with fellow students or teachers. When watching the recordings, they can see their own or fellowstudents’ or teacher’s notes on a time-line which indicates the moment they were created in the lecture. It’s also possible to scroll through the tags to look up, display or play that point of the lecture. This enables them to easily find the content they are looking for in the web lectures so they can use their time more efficiently. These tags can also easily be used to enhance the web lectures. Using a tag-cloud, you can find the parts of the web lectures where the content you are looking for is located. The (filtered) notes can also be downloaded in HTML format for personal use so they can easily be used to enhance existing learning environments.

Weblectures given a new dimension, varied, dynamic and interesting

Benefits of Live tagging

• Increases the involvement of students in the lecture
• Offers teachers possibilities – also retrospectively – for expanding lectures or exploring content in more detail
• Unlocks web lectures so limited time can be used efficiently
• Gives students the possibility to use their mobile phone, iPad or netbook interactively during lessons and lectures
• Notes are saved locally and can be viewed interactively using a browser