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"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.

This is a round-up of ways to add interactive elements to your own videos. These can enhance videos for flipped lessons. One of these tools is YouTube itself, which has built-in annotation tools. Mad Video lets you insert interactive tags to websites, images, or other video directly into YouTube videos. WireWax lets you insert a different audio track into the original video, while Blubbr creates video-based quizzes. Have fun!

The problem of non-access to YouTube for many classrooms around the world is solved by looking to such alternate resources for videos as TeacherTube and Teachers.tv. This blog also links to a page with many other such alternative video sites.

"Blogging apps make it possible for students to record their observations and those of others from almost anywhere (click here for the mobile apps for the most popular blog platforms). Here are three mobile blogging activities that you might have students try on your next field trip." R. Byrne suggests 3 lessons using Animoto for mobile, podcasting with Audioboo or Sound Cloud, and picture enhancement with ThingLink or PicCollage. More ideas in the links below the entry.

Azendoo helps teams assign and track their various roles in a group project. I can imagine this as a nice way for teachers to help students decide on tasks and roles with the group as well. Reminders to the team help keep work on track. Azendoo allows as many workspaces as need, and each space has 10GB of storage. works with Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box to help sharing.

For Android devices -- mindboards can be saved to your Google Drive account and then opened on other devices. Might be good for students to brainstorm group projects or tasks.

Great tips for using teams, groups, and project-based learning. Common sense, but with some good management techniques.

"With PDFVue you can upload any document from any computer without having to have expensive client software. Once you've made your changes you can simply download the updated PDF or share the secure PDFVue link." This looks like an incredibly useful tool that avoids the expense of the Adobe program -- plus, you can share documents at the site from your desktop.

"Snipd helps you save and share your favorite content from within pages you enjoy. Save a snippet of an article, image, or any flash content (YouTube, Hulu, MetaCafe, etc.) without leaving the page." An interesting site-sharing tool.

"SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free." Free app to share presentations. Save creations as PowerPoint, or slideshow.

"SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free." Free app to share presentations. Save creations as PowerPoint, or slideshow.

"Create page turning publications and share them online. Get noticed and captivate your audience with interactive online brochures, magazines, portfolio's and more..." Create your own or your students ebooks or ejournals. Free tool.

Convert Online FLV Youtube Videos direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, mp3, mp4 and mobile. Enter the video link from the provider, then click the >Catch! button, which displays the links to different types of video.

Create ejournals and ebooks for free; explore the YUDU library of free books and magazines to see how it would look to self-publish. A great way to have your students publish their own works.

SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Create online versions from your ppt, embed the presentation in a blog or website, collect feedback, discuss the presentation in groups. Free.

"Snipd helps you save and share your favorite content from within pages you enjoy. Save a snippet of an article, image, or any flash content (YouTube, Hulu, MetaCafe, etc.) without leaving the page." Ave as you surf; no installation; free; tutorial on the site.

"TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it." Embed in a blog, etc. Could be very useful if you want to use just a small clip from a longer video for your language class.

"An Apple app which lets you quickly scan and mark paper-based quizzes using the special mark sheet and your mobile device. The children simply make a mark on their answer sheet to show their answer." (M. Burrett) "Quick Key eliminates hand-grading of quizzes, tests, and formative assessments, even for teachers working in paper-based classrooms, without a computer." Clever app - reads and grades.

This Etherpad clone allows you to set up a live public text chat on the fly. Enter your name and then invite users to share your pad. Use it as a backchannel during a flipped classroom, or with your lecture or conference presentation on land to receive questions from the audience.

Create a text chat on the fly. Set up a public pad without sign-up, then invite others to join you. Use it for backchanneling questions during a lecture or meeting. Or embed a Google Hangout to allow more than 10 users to follow the audio talk.

This is such a cool tool that I have to include it, even though it is not free -- just .99 cents U.S. Create your screencast directly on an iPod and upload it as MP4 directly to YouTube. You can draw on the website with a marker, draw tool, or laser point in different colors and two different styles. Annotations scroll with the page. Will not record video content, however. Purchase in iTunes or Apple Store.