The future of educational video? Toronto's Summit Heights Public
School is experimenting with Popcorn.js in the classroom Video
is the lingua franca of our age. What if we could bring it into
the classroom in exciting new ways? What if we made video social
— collaborative, interactive, and linked to a wealth of deeper
context and resources — instead of the traditional “TV in a box”
experience? What if students could talk back to video, remixing
and making it part of their own essays and art, instead of just
passively consuming it? That’s the possibility Mozilla’s new
Popcorn video tool brings to the classroom. Popcorn allows users
to turn boring old traditional video into dynamic “hyper-video”
or “social video,” weaving in context and content from across
the web. The educational opportunities for the tool are huge,
from “video book reports” to dynamically exploring the solar
system to turning every multimedia encounter into a chance to
dig deeper, learn more and explore. Mozilla's new Butter app
makes it easy