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This is a video tour of Google TV, which offers TV channels on the Web with an excellent search engine. Also has apps, e.g., connections to NetFlix, Twitter, Amazon, et al. You can use your mobile phone as a remote control and use voice search. You can watch TV and a website at the same time, e.g., for a sports event. More developments to come.

Watch TV shows on your computer. You may wish to use excerpts from episodes in your class as conversation starters or models for social interactions to be play-acted.

"Watch live broadcasts watch * Live video broadcast * TV, HD quality * Run by users like you * Free for everyone broadcast * Broadcast any video instantly * From any broadband connection * Files, DVD, Webcam and TV * Free for everyone A small download, but requires broad bandwidth to operate. ESL Lesson (q.v.) is using this app to broadcast classroom documentaries on the Teacher's TV channel.

"Complete coverage for major TV network affiliates in all 210 US DMAs, national cable news, as well as the most international coverage available anywhere." Called by one user, "a virtual DVR for every channel, every city, at every hour of the day." Also for mobile platforms. Free trial.

"# To get familiar with the learning gains that can be achieved by using movies,TV shows, and documentaries as learning tools. # To implement strategies to approach movies and TV shows as learning tools. # To maximize the learning gains out of a variety of web tools."

"Not only does SafeShare.TV remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them." This may be a good way to clean up videos before using them with younger students, especially.

"Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA." Thousands of videos created by high school students to teach each other. RSS subscription to keep up with updates. This is so far a 7-year project. It would be a good project display point for students as well as a learning tool.

"This is a guide with step-by-step instructions for recording and publishing internet video. Make Internet TV is suitable for many levels of experience; just jump right in at the chapter that seems right for you."

How teachers can flip their classroom, and have kids make the videos to teacher other kids, in this case, math. If you are thinking of trying "flipping," you must watch this creative set of examples (in several languages) of kids solving problems.

Great notes to help you get more from your iPad: create folders, use a split screen, search your apps, have a text read to your students, mirror content on an HD TV or connected to a projector, save a Web page to read later, find some good content creating apps.

Play your presentations without an Apple TV, through any Mac or Windows computer, from your iPad or iPhone.

Nik Peachey demonstrates a wonderful tool, SafeShare.tv that can be used to crop YouTube videos, stripping ads, and shortening them, to make them more useful for ESL/EFL classes. Nik gives a number of suggestions, with accompanying video examples, and an instructional video of how to use the tool.

These sites include RAS Animate with thought-provoking videos about education and other subjects; Problem Attic with a bank of 80,000 quetions from the NY Regents exams, review tests, quizzes, and flash card; Learners TV with thoughsands of video lectures, tests, and animations in various disciplines to support classroom instruction; Sketch Toy which lets you draw and share pictures; Daily Infographic, where you can search topics and subscribe; and Google Tutor, which gives you news, tips, and tutorials about Google. Thanks to M. Sheehan at Learning Never Stops for the info.

"Have students create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarizes them. Ask students to create a 30 second podcast that introduces themselves. Then allow students to present them or play them on separate devices as an audio gallery. Create a classroom blog and ask each student to write a blog post introducing themselves to the rest of the classroom. Have students create a quick comic strip to describe themselves or to recreate a recent funny moment in their lives. Use PollEverywhere to ask students interesting questions and get to know them as a class, like their favorite subjects, bands or TV shows. Use GoogleForms or SurveyMonkey to survey students about their interests, academic inclinations, and background info - a 21st century alternative to the "Getting to Know You" info sheet! Have students create word clouds to describe themselves and share with the rest of the class. Have students go on a QR code scavenger hunt in teams to get to know each other and learn about your classroom rules in a fun, engaging way. Ask students to create their own Voki avatars that introduce themselves to the class. Encourage them to be creative with the backgrounds, characters and details of the avatar to reflect their own personalities and preferences. Have students create graffiti online that speaks to their interests and personalities and share with the class." A nice set of ready-made lessons using readily available apps on the computer.

This is one of the more educational timeline services and is mostly video-based. Especially appropriate for secondary students, but you will need to do some preparation to use the videos with English learners.

"In an effort to save you a little bit of time, I've gone through a treasure trove of YouTube videos that are all about iPads in the classroom. From tutorials to recommending apps, there are a bunch of videos designed to help teachers, students, and admins alike." R. Byrne includes the actual videos along with a brief description: apps worth having that you can easily download, a Comprehensive Guide to the iPad for beginners, How to Set up Apple TV in the Classroom, Evernote, etc.

"Here are three tools that provide students with the option to answer questions or ask questions while watching flipped classroom videos." These include Video Notes, Teachem, and Blubbr.tv. Links also to VideoNotes that allows students to take notes while watching a video.

Teachers are welcome to create new quizzes. [They then can be posted on Detwiler's site, or embedded in their own Web page.] You can base your quizzes on videos from YouTube, Blip.tv, TeacherTube, or other video hosting website. You can view, edit, or delete your quiz at any time from your Account page. Click here to see how to create a quiz.

These wonderful videos take you from initial lessons to interviews with teachers and students to advice by the expert, and a view of how those lessons are put to use in the classrom. Amazingly good teacher training in 26 videos.

An interesting article on student "addiction" to social media: ""The students did complain about how boring it was [to] go anywhere and do anything without being plugged into music on their MP3 players," says Moeller. "And many commented that it was almost impossible to avoid the TVs on in the background at all times in their friends' rooms. But what they spoke about in the strongest terms was how their lack of access to text messaging, phone calling, instant messaging, email and Facebook, meant that they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away." "Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort," wrote one student. "When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life. Although I go to a school with thousands of students, the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable." The student responses to the assignment showed not just that 18-21 year old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook-with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends-but that students' lives are wired together in such ways that opting out of that communication pattern would be tantamount to renouncing a social life."