Q: I kept the interviews to show in my psychology course on VHS tapes. How do I digitize them to prepare for the online version of this course?

A: There are many services available to transfer VHS to digital files format. If you want to do it yourself look for USB Video Digital Converter. It comes with a software that allows you to edit videos on your computer, cut and save the chunks of your video in different format. You can find video tutorials online for different products. I am going to hook my VHS player with Sabrent USB-AVCPT A/V-to-USB 2.0 Digital Video Adapter to document the course materials I have on VHS tapes.

Q: Animated videos as course materials are very engaging for students. Is it any way to create them quickly?

A: There is a tool - VideoScribe. See if you like it. Start with Sparcol.com account.

Q: Where I can find reviews and recommendations about educational tools?

A: edshelf has well organized resources. For example, if you are interested in teachers toolkit for video the search will take you to this page: https://edshelf.com/profile/jonnywathen/teachers-toolkit---video

Q: I am looking for a way to use a branching scenario in my video to make it interactive. Is it possible to do for a person withough special video editing skills?

A: Yes, you can do it with YouTube! The key word is to add annotation to your video. This article will help:  
 http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92710

http://www.movements.org/how-to/entry/how-to-make-your-youtube-videos-more-interactive-by-adding-annotations/

Notes

• Annotations appear on standard YouTube players and embedded players.
• Annotations do not appear on custom YouTube chromeless players.
• Annotations do not appear in video playbacks taking place on mobile, tablet and TV devices.

Q: Do you have any examples on how to do storyboard for educational video?

A: See techniques recommended for story-boarding below.

Storyboard the Simpsons way: http://www.animationmeat.com/pdf/televisionanimation/strybrd_the_simpsonsway.pdf

Example of the school district template: http://schools.shorelineschools.org/home_education/Forms/Video%20Storyboard.pdf

Example of Educational Video Storyboard: https://sites.google.com/site/heidiedtec541/educational-video-storyboard

Examples of a movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FOKJk-7K9gY

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos?landing_page=General+Teacher+Videos+Landing+Page&gclid=COa005Pw07ICFQWCQgod4lUAtQ

Power Point for story-boarding: http://www.joedeegan.com/educational-video-storyboard-ed-tech-561/

Storyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWPjjoOFIu8

Free storyboard software: http://www.atomiclearning.com/storyboardpro

Q: What technology is available for free to create video for my class?

A: New service knovio: http://www.knovio.com/

Create: bring “flat” PowerPoint® slides to life with your webcam, microphone

Edit: make changes, without the need for video editing software or skills

Share: publish instantly to private spaces or your social networks

Jux: https://jux.com/ gives your user-friendly opportunity to design any content. Use Fkickr (creative Commons licensed) images: http://www.flickr.com/

With MentorMob http://www.mentormob.com/ you can be creative and organize your content.

You can use your iPad as whiteboard with ShowMe application: http://www.showme.com/

ShowMe is an open learning community where you can learn or teach any subject.

If you use Google+ - hangouts offer you whiteboard options as well.

Camtasia Relay gives you an option to upload your video content directly to YouTube channel.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia-relay.html

Q: I created video for my class. Where to look for legal music to use in it?

A: Creative commons provides the resources of legal music for videos: http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos

Q: Is any free video editing application available?

A: Lightworks is a free video editing application that is now available for Windows, though Linux and OSX versions users.
Download from http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Read more about this product from Guy Mullins at
http://at.uto.asu.edu/news/lightworks-review/#more-2574

Q: How to convert video to reduce the size and keep it good quality?

A: Use Any Video Converter

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Any Video Converter Freeware- the Free Video Converter - is the most renowned free video converter for converting video files between various formats, including AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, FLV, SWF, 3GP , DVD, WebM , MP3, etc for iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android, PSP, Tablets.