I did a presentation the other day on how one might use the
Promethean software to do some interesting things with video. I
don’t think the software is essential to do any of this but it
did make it pretty easy and we already have it on all our
computers and all our student computers. In any case, I used the
video above to demo a few easy things for kids to do using
screenshots from virtually any video. Yes, it did make my kids’
day to use a Fineas and Ferb song about squirrels in someone’s
pants. I’m not sure what the teachers thought of it but
sometimes you have to amuse yourself. Simplest- Visual Answers
Take video screenshots to answer questions. Easy but a different
level of involvement with the video. Depending on the questions
this could be low level stuff or something more sophisticated.
You could do simple things like ID the protagonist. Or you could
ask harder questions like- Capture the most dramatic frame in
the video. Summarize or Cartoonize Using simple screenshots you
can add word balloons to s