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Video conferencing today is broken: typically requiring cumbersome downloads, logins, and endless contact lists, it too often becomes a service that is slow and unreliable. Enter tinychat. Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without the extraneous ad-ons and inconvenience, making video conferencing an accessible, uncomplicated experience. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux; with Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome; and there is a version available for iPhones. You can have up to TWELVE people in a room with HQ video, protected by passwords and moderators, share your desktop with them, and your conferences can be recorded and embedded on your website.

Video conferencing today is broken: typically requiring cumbersome downloads, logins, and endless contact lists, it too often becomes a service that is slow and unreliable. Enter tinychat. Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without the extraneous ad-ons and inconvenience, making video conferencing an accessible, uncomplicated experience. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux; with Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome; and there is a version available for iPhones. You can have up to TWELVE people in a room with HQ video, protected by passwords and moderators, share your desktop with them, and your conferences can be recorded and embedded on your website.

Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website. For additional information contact info@teachertube.com.

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

"It's easy to build your own video site with VodSpot. Fill it with your own videos, favorites from the Net, or both. It's powered by Vodpod, so you can include videos from 1000's of websites-YouTube to TeacherTube"

Very interesting site allows video viewers to insert comments at specific points on video timeline.

Another tool that allows viewing of YouTube w/o ads or comments. Enter a video link, and Safeshare creates a new link to the video in a page w/o the distractions.

Click on the Classroom Videos tab below the featured video to see hundreds of playlists arranged by subject and objective.

Article on TeacherTube blog about uses of video in education.

Live streaming Video from the phone

Cool stream video app for the Phones with video.

Good list of instructional tips for using digital video cams with students.

Video chat, streaming video channels, web meetings.

Site that turns videos, images, text, and audio into professional looking videos (similar to Animoto).

Vocabulary video site. Includes lesson and implementation ideas for teachers plus tips on creating/submitting student videos to the site.

Videos for children ages 0-10.

TED educational site. Now includes tools that allow teachers to add discussion questions to videos for students.

Add chapter place marks and comments to YouTube and Vimeo videos.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by watching the following video introduction to Digital Storytelling.

Palbee is a free online service which allows you to set up easy video meetings with your friends and colleagues. You can also use Palbee to record your own presentations and store them online.

Hilarious video from SNL of interactive whiteboard "use"

Upload and manage videos on multiple sites at once.