taking notes with videonot.es

This post was originally written for my school's staff newsletter, Bear Essentials, November 29, 2013.

image from http://www.videonot.es/img/logo.png

I ran across this very cool new chrome app/website recently.  It came to me through one of my circles/communities in Google+.  It would be great for blended or e-learning classes, but useful for anyone taking notes on videos.

The app/site is videonot.es and it allows you to take notes while you are watching a video - side by side, on the same screen.  Each point you type is automatically tagged with the minute/second in the video when you typed it.  When you go back through your notes, if you click on a point, it will load the video to that part of the video.

The video and corresponding notes are saved in your google drive.  This means that you could start watching and taking notes on a video notes at school, then go home and pick up right where you left off.  You (or your students) can also share it with others and take group notes.  There is also an option to export to Evernote if you are an Evernote user.

To use videonot.es you need to go to the chrome store, find the app, then install it.  When you install a chrome app it is connected to your chrome id and therefore is with you on any computer with chrome that you are on.  To use it (after install), type videonote.es into your URL, or from Drive, go to create and find the app in the list.

There is a youtube 3 ½ minute demo you can watch at http://goo.gl/H0EccN (shortened URL is case sensitive) or in Youtube, search for “Videonot.es as Demo”.