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YouTube Interactive Charts no longer work
Our interactive chart videos on YouTube relied on a feature in YouTube called ‘Annotations’. Unfortunately YouTube has now discontinued the ‘Annotations’ and replaced them with what they call ‘End Screens’ and ‘Cards’
Sadly neither of these new features can be used to replace the full functionality of the ‘Annotations’ in the way that we used them.
However, as many of our members found the Interactive Chart very useful, we have released an app for it. It is very simple and works in the same way as the video. Just download the app and click the sound you want to hear. It actually works even better than the video did.
Our first Interactive Phonetic Chart
We made the first version of the interactive phonetic chart in March 2011. YouTube had recently introduced the annotations feature and we saw the opportunity to make videos that were interactive. Most people were not really making full use of the annotations and I often found myself going to the switch them off because they were distracting me from the video I was trying to watch. People used them in a very uncreative way to try to get people to visit their site or subscribe to their channel. It was normally an afterthought and often people didn’t think about what they were losing when they cover their video with an annotation.
Interactive Phonetic Chart on YouTube
As an English teacher I have seen the IPA symbols in almost every classroom I have worked in. I had also seen other interactive phonetic chart versions on websites but I wanted to create one on YouTube because that is where people were looking.
My initial interactive phonetic chart experiment was to create a video of the IPA chart where you could click on symbols to hear the sound. I made the video, uploaded it and arranged all the annotations to link to the right part of the video, then I kind of forgot about it and went back to teaching. Meanwhile, the video started to get thousands of views and when I finally did check back it had around half a million. It was really because of the success of this video that The English Language Club was born.
