A videopaper is a multimedia creation consisting of video, text, and slide images. The PLAY buttons inserted into the text allow the author to "quote" from the video. When a reader clicks on a PLAY button, a specified section of the movie will display. In the creation process, the author identifies exactly how much of the full video they would like to associate with a PLAY button, and only that section will be viewed when the PLAY button is depressed. The space beneath the video is used to display slide images, which the author synchronizes to display alongside the movie. Slides can be activated only in coordination with the movie. The slides will appear and disappear as directed by the author. The text section of the videopaper behaves just as any web page, containing links that are internal to the videopaper and links that are external to sites in the internet (see some examples of these below).

The text of the videopaper is HTML. This text was created using Dreamweaver 4.0 The PLAY buttons, menu buttons, title, and slide synchronization were created in VideoPaper Builder 2.0, a piece of open-source software designed for this purpose. It is free to the public (see link below). The movie was captured digitally from analog footage released on a VHS tape, edited in iMovie and exported to Quicktime for use in the videopaper. The slides were captured as stills in iMovie, edited in Photoshop, and saved as .JPGs (.GIF images are also compatible with VideoPaper Builder 2.0).

The software was originally created in 2001, through funding from a Nation Science Foundation grant program called "Bridging Research and Practice." The intent of the software is to allow researchers to demonstrate through annotated video some of their findings to practitioners working in the field.VideopPaper Builder is currently in use by a number of research organizations, including TERC and the Concord Consortium in Massachusetts. It is also in use by teacher education programs at Northwestern University and Tufts University. Graduate students in these programs film their own teaching, edit the film, and annotate the edited version through a process of self-reflection and analysis. Although it has been presented at national and international education conferences, this is the debut of videopaper in the world of ultimate frisbee.

http://vpb.concord.org