Teaching Tip: Use PopcornMaker to make video interactive

September 16, 2014

Marissa Carl

PopcornMaker is a free-to-use, drag-and-drop video editor that makes mashups easy, even with multiple types of media.

With this tool, video can be transformed into a more interactive medium. Instructors can use it to pause a video mid-stream and pose a question for deeper thinking, add pop-up translations where necessary and provide additional resources from the web, in context, while the video is playing. This makes it an interesting tool for storytelling, enhanced lectures, instructional videos and especially student projects.

Read more about PopcornMaker on iTeachU.

Christen Bouffard, an instructional designer with UAF eLearning & Distance Education and author of this Teaching Tip, will showcase this tool and other video editors during a Teaching Tips Live session at 1 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 18. Join the online event via this link: http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/ttl-interactivevideo.