Trying out Mozilla Popcorn Maker...

Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a tool which allows online video to be repurposed and made more 'interactive'. I learned about it today from this post by Neil Mehta.

This is a very simple edit of the 1st part of google hangout I did last week with Eve Purdy.

Was this an easy to use tool?There is certainly a learning curve- and it took me a few hours to edit this very short video. In part because it doesn't seem very stable of Chrome as it crashed a few times. So I don't think it is something that will have widespread take-up just yet, but I may be wrong!

I also don't think that it is very easy to see what the source materials are. Yes, it's visible in the code but I guess best to add attributions in ourselves. You can see the sources for any video produced by clicking on the quotes in the top left hand corner, so attribution is easy.

The next thing I want to do is see how long it would take me to have done this same editing within YouTube itself. And then I might try adding some of the fancy features in Popcorn Maker .. eg links out.

Of course as Popcorn Maker themselves have tweeted the main advantage is that someone else can take what I have done and remix it and make it better.

@amcunningham thx for trying out Popcorn, main advantage besides hyperlinks are ability for others to remix and improve makes. Enjoy! :)
— Mozilla WebMaker (@webmaker) September 12, 2013

Maybe Eve Purdy will have a go herself!

exploring sliderocket

I came across sliderocket today and thought it looked very interesting. I found it browsing chrome extensions and it can be used as a Google app. There is also education licensing. There are interesting features like extensive analytics, feedback and polling allowed in presentations. But ... not in the free version. So this shows some of the more limited features.

What do you think? Any experience with this?