Have you heard about interactive annotations?

[Katie Bacon]

Annotations Man, & How to use YouTube annotations are many user-created tutorials about annotations, you would have learned that interactive video annotations are a set of simple tools that enable you to add text and hyperlinks directly onto your youtube videos. There are so many creative ways this tool could be used within a youth work setting with a group of young people. All you need is a mobile phone/digital camera to shoot footage, pack of jaffa cakes (stimulate the creative process), flip chart paper to note down ideas and story line, practice a few times and bobs your uncle. Young people can do 99% of the whole task - you need to eat the jaffa cakes yum!

Possible video's:
Visiting a sexual health clinic - what to expect? Information and support on offer, what to do if you think your pregnant
Going on a bender on the weekend - risks? How to keep safe? What to do if it goes all pete tong
Feeling depressed - choices and support on offer
Impact of bullying - different points of view
Leaving care - setting up flat, dealing with bills, college/work and mates

Example:
Choose a different ending is an interactive video describing the life of a teenager trying to survive the slums of London. The story, which is shot from a first-person point of view, lets viewers control the hero’s actions (e.g. deciding whether or not he should take his knife to school). Only when the plot reaches one of its grim endings do you realize that the video, commissioned by the London Metropolitan Police, is actually a powerful tool in helping young people cope with some of the tough decisions they are faced growing up in a violent environment. This interactive video is a great example of how annotations on YouTube have evolved in just one year: what started as a small-scale experiment is now changing visual storytelling on the web.

Provide dynamic commentary: Basically, this means placing a layer of comments on a video; things like director comments, pet dubbing clips, and how-to tips for everything from origami to guitar lessons.
Add interactive links and menus: Many video-makers use the links to direct traffic to other videos and to create video menus.
Create branching story-lines: Unlike the above two types, which maintain the individual video as the comprehensive story unit, this third group emphasizes a collection of videos organized in a hierarchical structure as a new format of storytelling. Here we find a wide spectrum of use cases, including murder mysteries