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VideoPaper Builder 3 (VPB3) is a multimedia creation tool for users of any level of technology skills, that enables the creation of documents called VideoPapers. VideoPapers are interactive documents which link and synchronize video, text, and images a single, cohesive document that can be viewed in a web browser. The VideoPaper, an HTML document in a format similar to a frame-based webpage, consists of three main frames:
A video frame that contains an edited QuickTime video with subtitles, and a controller.

A slide frame that maintains a space for relevant images that supplement the video, such as: notes from the board, a student's facial expression, scanned content of (student work or teacher handouts), or digital images of logos and graphics. The images are synchronized with the video on when to appear.

The text frame that contains a navigation menu and holds the "pages" of the paper. In addition to the written commentary, these pages contain links/buttons that play specific, relevant segments of the video.

A VideoPaper enables its author to effectively annotate video footage in a way that is currently not widely available to computer users of average experience and ability. This medium offers the author a chance to record, edit, and annotate classroom activities, student behavior, teacher strategies and more. The commentary that the author then offers the reader is necessarily closely linked to the footage that has been recorded. Treating the video as a "text" itself, the author's written reflections arise from those same video clips to which the viewer also has access. This primary source becomes a basis for discussion.

VideoPaper Builder 3 software is cross-platform, and runs natively in Mac OSX or on Windows machines. The VideoPapers produced by VPB3 can be published onto a CD-ROM, DVD, or posted on the internet. and can be viewed in a web browser such as Netscape, Safari, or Internet Explorer. A Spanish-language version of the software is currently available.