Want to enhance the viewer experiences and discussions around the YouTube videos you embed? You can now upgrade your YouTube embeds with real-time reactions and DVD-like controls  without having to alter the original content, using EmbedPlus. Here's an example I created of an enhanced YouTube below - although please note, that I haven't activated all the features mentioned above. EmbedPlus offers a number of features: Real-time reactions. Scene skipping. Movable zoom. Third party annotations. Slow motion on-demand. Instant replay. How might you make use of it MORE >>

One I recently discovered is the Johns Hopkins Medicine YouTube channel , which I would like to share with my readers. embedded just a few examples from the channel below. It’s amazing how many resources I have been discovering at Johns Hopkins. work within one small part of Johns Hopkins Medicine and have been discovering the many resources across the larger organization available to both staff and the public. The Johns Hopkins Medicine channel has many more interesting and informative videos. The link has also been added to the Free e-Learning page. MORE >>

YouTube is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Well, maybe that's not a good description of YouTube. However, with the right set of instructions and proper organization, YouTube can be a great environment for learning. Content authors can take advantage of many of YouTube's features to easily upload video content, organize it, and distribute it. Let's look at three benefits to using YouTube as an e-learning distribution tool. 1) YouTube takes your training to the Web. 2) YouTube takes your training Mobile. MORE >>

Last night, my 8 year old daughter wanted to show me a video on YouTube that she had deemed “the funniest thing ever.&#   Ten seconds into a 4 minute video of fruit and vegetables with superimposed mouths spouting truly random dialog, I was gritting my teeth while she was laughing hysterically. That may be true, so let me give you another example. eLearning elearning Fun user adoption web-based training youtubeOver at the Learning Circuits blog, the big question for July is “How do you make eLearning fun?&#  They are not asking for much there, are they? MORE >>

Example: The BIT.LY If you have access to your own webspace, blog, etc then create a page/post that will contain all the information you want to make available, then use a URL shortening service to generate the shortest possible link to use for the code (see first example above). Whether the content is a book in the Library, a YouTube video, a seminar room at a given time, it doesn’t matter. The following YouTube clip demonstrates how this is already being done. WordPress YouTube address for my blog is [link]. How can we use them? Books & Textbooks. MORE >>