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Sharing and seeking: ideas for making videos more interactive
I’m working on a course that uses almost all video. The content’s good, but the client is asking for ideas for making it more interactive.
Someone sent me the 21 Jump Street movie site as an example. I know, right? I like how the trailer layered movie trivia questions over the video. I thought this would make a good example so I tried building it in SL.
This is what I put together: Elearning Quiz Demo
I’d also be interested in what you think the right number of questions per video might be. Most videos will be 1-2 minutes.
Thank you!
We need a "Like" button!
Thank you everyone for the great feedback!
I updated slide properties to pause base layer so now it plays properly.
The airport clip is silent but it's just a placeholder clip for the "real" project, which is confidential (you know how that goes).
The pop up video idea is another one. This project is a little formal but I'll give it a go and share how it turns out.
Thank you everyone!
Hi Gonzalo,
The video pausing is really simple, actually. You just click the gear icon and check the pause timeline option. You have to do that for each slide layer.
To create the quiz questions on slide layers, I cheated a little by creating one large image for the slide layer, image and questions. I then added four radio buttons and a submit button. The submit button reveals a feedback graphic with the correct and incorrect icons.
This solution was super fast for creating the prototype, but not desirable for production work because nothing on the slide is editable in Storyline.
I really like the presentation!
I experienced the same as Bruce - the video kept playing in the background while I was working on the question. This will be an issue since you won't be able to control how long a person takes on each question (unless you can pause the video as Bruce suggests).
Taking a slightly different tact, are you familiar with the VH1 "Pop-up video" shows? It's basically music videos with pop-up facts either directly or even indirectly related to the video, artist, or something mentioned in the song. So perhaps you could do something similar with your facts and then just include the quiz at the end? (Or is that what your clients were trying to "solve"?)
Perhaps breaking up the videos into smaller chunks would work, with the question at the end of each chunk.
Using your sample video, you could first stop it at the same point (where the first gentleman puts his bag on the belt) and then phrase the question in a scenario, perhaps like "The screener identifies the following items. Which one is a violation?"
And then you would move on to the next section of video, which is an issue with next traveler's items.
And, if you have the liberty to inject some fun, you could play a record-scratching or brake-squealing sound with a big WAIT! or HOLD ON! graphic when you stop the video to ask the quesiton.
Again, a great start!
Nice work. Agree, getting the vid to pause would help learners understand what you are trying to do. And maybe it's just me, but it seems a light soundtrack is called for. Seems a bit odd to have a normally relatively loud scene (airport) be silent. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool concept. Well done.
Adding the scoring wouldn't be difficult either.
Great example. Great movie too - I laughed so hard when I watched it.
Cheers!
Love this, Montse - thank you for sharing it! I'm not seeing the issue of the video playing continuously when the questions pop up... it pauses as expected. Maybe it's been updated? I especially like the transition on the slide layers and the blurred background that appears behind the quiz questions - those effects really make the whole thing feel integrated and smooth!
Very nice. I also like the Pop Up video idea. Here is something from Mozilla Webmaker that might help with that...or at least give you additional ideas.
Great demo!
For me the interactive video approaches like these that are made possible by Storyline are one of the most exciting features of it. It's unfortunate that none of this will work on Mobile Safari because you get that "Play" button that messes everything up - I can just about persuade clients that learners can download the Articulate player app for the iPad, but since there's not yet any equivalent for the iPhone as far as I'm aware, my clients won't accept any of this cool stuff
Jeanette - I think the problem is when the pop up comes up and the video keeps playing. If you have an unattentative viewer, the pop-up will show up and disappear before they can click on it. I think the video should stop until you click on the pop up which will provide the viewer an incentive to actually click on it.
As an alternative interactive video. Have you thought about making it like the old "Choose your Own Adventure" stories. Where the outcome of the next video depends on your choice, and the conclusion (score) of the course depends on your choices?
Montse-
I LOVE it! Really nicely done. Any chance you could make us a quick screenr to show us some of the main functionality?
