Contributions to Using IT in Education: An Educational Video Player

Following the trends of IT use in education we propose four main principles of educationalapplication development: anytime-anywhere access (including access for mobile devices); user-generated content; assigning users an active role inside the platform; creating acorrelation between natural activities and educational activities – adding fun into theequation. With these principles in mind we developed a small Educational Player – a movieplayer that connects to a database to show information relevant to the events in the movie, more specific to the exact key-frame (in the movie time-line) at the moment of the request. Though the application is still in a conceptual form, its possibilities make us confident in itsfuture success either as an informal way of learning, or by using it in a formal educationalcontext either as an e-learning tool, either as interactivity tool in a traditional classroomsetting