Splicd is an invaluable service that lets users, practitioners and learners alike, select and share a segment of a YouTube video.I found Splicd a simple and easy service to use;select a video from YouTube, copy the video's url into Splicd, enter the start and end times of the video segment required. This service has so much potential within education - resources, evidence, presentations etc.I would be surprised if readers of this find didn’t visit http://www.splicd.com/ to try it out.

An increasing number of learning providers are... using video and audio to collect evidence; and using Xerte to produce accessible learning resources - including audio and video clips; In both cases transcriptions may be required and/or, in the case of accessible resources, is essential to widen access. Scribie... is a company specialized in audio transcription services; enables users to submit audio recordings... Interviews, meetings, podcasts, webinars... will produce a high quality transcript for as little as $0.99 per minute of audio (approx, at time of going to print, £0.60 per min); with my typing skills and other commitments I find this an attractive ROI. will have your transcription file ready for download in 1 business day. Although both audio and video files are supported, using Oxelon, to strip an audio file from a video, will reduce file size and upload time. Note: Payment is made when users upload files for transcription. Find out more at http://scribie.com/.

If you are one of the many practitioners who want to make it easier for your learners to carry out learning activities that involve drawing on images, then you should check this service out. Drawtivity (developed by Webducate funded by the Talis Incubator) is an e-learning tool for creating on-line activities that involve both drawing and feedback. As an Open Education Resource authoring tool, Drawtivity facilitates the sharing, reuse and adaptation of these activities. Take a look at an overview at http://www.screenr.com/gg0. The Drawtivity authoring system is now available for beta testing. This means practitioners can now create an account and start creating and using their own Drawtivity activities. Visit http://www.drawtivity.org/ to find out more. My trial effort can be found at http://www.drawtivity.org/activity.php?c=6JZMSNqGklTs.

Create Video Questionnaires Intervue.me... is a new website I have been evaluating recently; is another website that is based around the use of webcams; enables users to create questionnaires and then get the recipients of the questionnaire to leave video recorded answers. The site is very easy to use... Register; go to 'My Dashboard'; click on 'Create New' to start a questionnaire; click on 'Edit title' so that you can give your questionnaire a name; decide on... the levels of privacy you want for the questionnaire; whether you want people to be able to leave anonymous answers or add comments to the answers; type in a question; give more explanation below the question if you think that makes it clearer; add as many questions as you want; Once you have added all your questions... click on 'Share' or 'Invite' to either get a URL for your questionnaire or to email it to specific people. Once people receive the questionnaire they... click on the questions; record answers using a webcam. My first effort is available at http://intervue.me/i/367; PLEASE have a go at answering the questions! Find out more at http://intervue.me/.

Multiple choice quizzes are still used by practitioners for a variety of purposes. If you use multiple choice quizzes for any purpose, using Google Docs and grading it with Flubaroo could save a lot of time that individuals can put to better use on other tasks. Flubaroo... is a free script that practitioners can use to grade the quizzes that they administer through Google Docs; provides step-by-step directions for using the script. To use Flubaroo... create a multiple choice quiz using Forms in Google Docs; take the quiz yourself (this provides the correct answers for the grading process); get your learners to take the quiz (it can be embedded in a webpage or provide learners with the URL for the form); then insert the Flubaroo script by selecting it from the "insert" menu in your spreadsheet; once the Flubaroo script is inserted users can... select it and it will grade the quiz for them; get reporting and analysis on learner performance; and email learners their scores. Visit http://www.flubaroo.com/ to find out more and/or to try it out. Visit http://www.flubaroo.com/flubaroo-user-guide for the user guide.

If you show videos as part of your teaching/training etc., and/or use video evidence, SnipSnip.it could be useful for skipping over the parts of a video you don't need learners/assessors/verifiers... to watch. Another benefit of SnipSnip.it is that when the videos playback they are displayed on a blank canvas devoid of the distracting and sometimes inappropriate "related videos" that appear on YouTube. To use SnipSnip.it... copy the link (URL) of a YouTube video; paste it into SnipSnip.it; and then enter the start and end times for the section of video you want to share. After you've completed those steps SnipSnip.it will generate... a link; here is the link I made earlier, pinpointing the lunar eclipse - http://snipsnip.it/a7d02xni4r5/; and an embed code that will play just the section of video you selected; I've embedded my first effort below... cropped with SnipSnip Try it out at http://snipsnip.it/.