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This website has a large bank of resources for teachers. The videos and resources that I previewed seem to try to incorporate a variety of learning styles and thinking skills. Most of this site focuses on lessons and resources for teachers, but these could be alternative methods for re-teaching or tutoring students as well.

For a novice to digital storytelling, it takes time to weed out the good resources from the poor ones. This blog follows a virtual classroom teacher who teaches this specific technology. He lists his favorite storytelling technologies, even including resources that anyone could use while writing.

This digital storytelling website is filled with every resource you can imagine. The website documents the research and success stories behind digital storytelling. It breaks the digital storytelling process into four steps, providing websites and program ideas to help you along. It helps you with grant writing, if you feel like you need additional resources to start digital storytelling in your classroom. What I especially appreciate, is the assortment of rubrics provided, so that you have a idea how to grade stories created by your students.

Catlin Tucker discusses how too often teachers that attempt to implement a flipped classroom feel that they need to make the videos themselves and fail to make use of the resources that are already available. She then discusses that watching a video after school is still passive learning like sitting in class listening to a lecture and that instead, teachers need to focus on what they make the students do with that knowledge.

(Actually 6 now because it looks like Sketchcast is no longer available.) A annotated list of different screen capture tools that teachers can use to create screen captures. These can be used to create videos of your computer screen to create your own lessons or even instructional videos to give students directions on what to do or how to use a certain application even in a flipped classroom setting. Some of these resources also have other uses including editing capabilities and the ability to upload other types of videos.

In a brief handout form, the concept, as well as pros and cons of digital storytelling are defined. This handout could be a fantastic resource when explaining the concept to parents of students or in a college course.

This is a collection of videos at multiple levels to re-teach/explain a variety of mathematical topics.

This is an article published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offering tips for tutors. Most of these could also be applied when creating videos to post online for students to use as well.

This a quick explanation on how to embed a YouTube video.