Designing a Web Application for Simple and Collaborative Video Annotation That Meets Teaching Routines and Educational Requirements

TL;DR

This paper presents TRAVIS GO, a web application designed to facilitate simple, collaborative video annotation tailored for educational settings, addressing teachers' needs for easy-to-use, integrative tools that support teaching routines.

Contribution

It introduces TRAVIS GO, a novel web-based tool for collaborative video annotation that aligns with teaching practices and incorporates user feedback from teachers.

Findings

TRAVIS GO enables quick, easy video annotation in classrooms.

The tool supports collaboration, tagging, commenting, and project sharing.

It provides adaptable features for different educational levels and subjects.

Abstract

Video annotation and analysis is an important activity for teaching with and about audiovisual media artifacts because it helps students to learn how to identify textual and formal connections in media products. But school teachers lack adequate tools for video annotation and analysis in media education that are easy-to-use, integrate into established teaching organization, and support quick collaborative work. To address these challenges, we followed a design-based research approach and conducted qualitative interviews with teachers to develop TRAVIS GO, a web application for simple and collaborative video annotation. TRAVIS GO allows for quick and easy use within established teaching settings. The web application provides basic analytical features in an adaptable work space. Key didactic features include tagging and commenting on posts, sharing and exporting projects, and working in live collaboration. Teachers can create assignments according to grade level, learning subject, and class size. Our work contributes further insights for the CSCW community about how to implement user demands into developing educational tools.