Use to argue against Euclid.

Create screencasts online.  Java-based.  Still in beta, but a great tool.  Resolution much higher than what I've been able to achieve with SnapzPro on my Mac.  And yes, it's cross-platform!  So far, you can't embed, though you can download as Quicktime, upload to Google Video or YouTube, etc, and embed from there, I guess--which might cause the same fuzzy resolution I've been fighting with SnapzPro all along.  iShowU, by the way, is a new Mac screencast software--about USD $20--that is far superior to  SnapzPro, if you want to buy software for your Mac.

Screencast-o-matic seems  eager to add features and improve its  service, so it's definitely something to watch.  Thanks to Jeff Utecht and Chris Craft for the tip.

Thanks to Patrick Higgins (who thanks Will Richardson) for this find:  this might be just the peer feedback tool we're looking for for the 1001 Tales writing workshop.  It requires a webcam, but otherwise is dead easy to embed--easier than Yackpack, and video added to boot.  (And check out the film debut of Patrick's Audrey, who can't be more than four moons old, on his demo.  Priceless, Patrick.)

I'm seeing this as a way for students to give peer feedback by reading their flat classroom peers' works aloud into their webcam, pausing for commentary all the while.  At a couple stages in the Flat World Tales, we had students podcast themselves reading their own works, then listen and reflect about what they heard.  Otherwise, no audio-video was used; instead, students only wrote their feedback on each other's wiki page.  My students said this took them upwards of a half hour per story feedback.

So Flixn might be faster, easier, and more effective--and more social.  Some of the student feedback expressed regret that they could not see or hear their flat classroom partners this time around.

I'm really liking this....Chris Watson, are you listening? 

One possible web 2.0 alternative to Skype conference call restrictions.  Web-based conference call recording.  Don't know if it's free.