Learning Constellations 1.0 was the first video annotation system built which supported the analysis of an entire body of research data using ethnographic style video data (Goldman-Segall, 1990). It was an event based tool rather than timebased, as are VANNA and CVIDEO. This means that the need of the user is to collect events into clusters and build meaningful groupings of selected chunks or stars.

Using the first version of Learning Constellations, the user was able to:

• Choose the start and end points called star chunks and choose the ordering of these star chunks
• search through transcripts, topics and participant names attached to each video chunk,
• Link video star chunks together into clusters called constellations
• Browse, view, and/or build annotations and groupings of video
• Analyze the video data from many diverse points of view
• Examine the same documentation with collaborators adding new levels of meaning by including their own written observations to the existing descriptions
• Use the tool as a presentation device to show selected video data.