Last weekend I discovered a great website that allows you to make videos on YouTube (and other video websites) interactive with clickable areas.  It is called The Mad Video Inc.  It was very easy to set up and create the interactive content.  It took me about 1/2 hour to open their studio, upload my video lecture on the Neolithic from YouTube and then add the material.  I've inserted my first experiment below and I will be asking my students to give me feedback.  I think it will make video lectures much more interesting, but I really want to know what students think.  

Are these clickable buttons helpful in terms of getting a deeper understanding of the Neolithic period?  Are they just distracting?

I would like to use these in my online World History course that will be starting in January.  I am just starting to put my Mesopotamia lecture together and have accumulated 24 websites that I would like to insert into a video with 37 slides.

I am thinking that in the future I will once again have students create their own videos, but then asking them to go one step further to add some interaction. 

Please leave your comments!