VMCAnalytic Tool: A Demonstration

• In Event: The Video Mosaic Collaborative: An Online Professional Development Resource for Mathematics Education and the Learning Sciences

Abstract

The VMCAnalytic is an open-sourced tool that is integrated with the repository infrastructure that supports the Video Mosaic Collaborative (VMC). This integration of this tool makes available the video collection stored on the VMC for analysis by individuals and collaborators. Users can search the VMCs’ extensive metadata and import one or more videos into their workspace and use the videos to create a new multimedia object. After selecting their videos, users have the ability to set start and stop points to select segments from the videos they want to analyze. They are free to create free-text essay annotations to support their choices for that segment of video. Multiple segments of video can be placed sequentially on a timeline to tell a story (See Figure 1). Users also have the ability to create an overall description and summary that will appear before the videos start to play.


Figure 1: An example of a VMCAnalytic

The VMCAnalytic tool allows a group of researchers to collaborate on building a VMCAnalytic together through multiple sharing options. One can share an analytic by giving access to another user on the system or by creating and sharing a hyperlink URL that expires after a pre-determined amount of time. New collaborative tools (e.g. the ability to chat with another user while you both work on creating a VMCAnalytic, allowing other registered users to comment on your VMCAnalytic, invitation-only research groups) are currently under development.

VMCAnalytics that have been constructed are eligible, after review, for publication on the VMC. These VMCAnalytics will be given a persistent record in the VMC library.

This presentation will provide a detailed demonstration of the features of the VMCAnalytic tool. It will also provide a review of the diverse themes used for
VMCAnalytics. Finally, it will provide guidance on how others could use the tool to create their own digital objects.

Author

• Robert Sigley, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway