Vialogues is a free tool for easily and simply adding comments to videos.

This tool solves a problem I was having for a long time as a teacher: how can I 'close read' videos with students and colleagues like we do with text.

Vialogues allows us to do this.

Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tIk4IOOeco

I want students to watch this slowly and closely. I want them to think along with the creators. I want them to extend the idea of close reading from text to video.

Absolutely necessary that our students become media literate. This might help go a long way toward doing that.

Here is a screenshot of the YouTube video that I submitted to the class for their close reading and then in-class discussion.

https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/11116

Image address: http://dujye7n3e5wjl.cloudfront.net/photographs/1080-tall/time-100-influent...

NowComment: https://nowcomment.com/documents/65361/twopane#.WEBg5qIwjC-

One of the best features about NowComment is that it is teacher friendly. In this particular example

(https://nowcomment.com/documents/58343/twopane#.WEKUmKIwjMg)

I added a few elements (a YouTube video and an introductory online photography course) to begin to round out a proto-lesson plan on vanishing point and artistic choices in photography.

NowComment has the capacity to be a "course in a box".

Vialogues: https://vialogues.com

Vialogues How-To: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAKRcmZFcW0

Vialogues Forum: https://vialoguesfeedback.uservoice.com/forums/105623-user-feedback-for-via...

NowComment: https://nowcomment.com/








Terry Elliott: @telliowkup, terry.elliott@gmail.com, http://impedagogy.com/wp/

Link to Video: http://youtu.be/iNY8nmJ-7K8?hd=1

A five minute video on creating a Vialogue. Join me at Vialogues as we work together reading Mr. Rogers:

https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/33412/