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Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere. We hope to expand our understanding of history by exploring the audio dimensions of our past, and we hope to enlarge the tools and venues of historical research and publication by promoting production of radio documentaries and other forms of aural history.

Free audio books, looks like a great opportunity to get some people access to literature from a different perspective.

Add audio to a slideshow.  Making slideshows multimedia! Easy to use and has a free component as well as a pay option. 

250 free ebooks. If you have students who are not reading for whatever reason, it's a great place to get started. Rather than not letting them experience the text, let them experience it. Get the process of appreciating storytelling even if it is audio.

Multimedia online note taking tool. Students can capture screen images, make audio recordings for notes, or write text notes to accompany drawings. These different media can then be organized into videos!  I envision it being similar to Evernote with more interaction capabilities and with the great addition of being able to create videos of the information gathered. I like this tool!

Digital storytelling site for sharing stories. 

MyBrainshark.com is the perfect solution for the shyer set. Audio narration can be added through this website, as well as some nice background music for effect.

I nice tool to create PPT presentations with audio and to share those presentations. In the development of these PPT sharing tools, this is a nice tool for having students create simple multimedia presentations. 

Great site for using the power of technology to add value to vocabulary instruction/learning: video, links, text, audio

Obviously,I'm not a writing expert, but I love how this post describes the writing process this teacher is using at Duke with her students. The peer editing process is tested and this approach uses a screencast (video that can include audio of what is happening on a computer- mouse movements, ability to highlight text while commenting, etc.) I think it's right up our alley and incorporates free technology.

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft is a great site for CC licensed media. If you are having students create digital products this is where they (and you) need to start for images, audio, and video that is legal and ethical to use. 

Anytime you have students using the internet for research then you 'should' be teaching about copyright. It is something that we as teachers often ignore, but it's an important lesson to learn and to share with our students. This is a recorded presentation by Wes Fryer. Worth a listen, some simple applicable points that you can immediately incorporate into your classroom.

A service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ) to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. Constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

An online tool to mash up photos, and audio in a cool way. Easy to use with students.

I've long used Evernote for my own personal notetaking on the web(although I have recently been migrating to Diigo for my online annotations), this post by Shawn Miller is such a great explanation of the tool that I'm going to move Evernote back into the forefront of my notetaking. I do love the mobile Evernote app on iPhone. It makes it very easy to not only take multiple kinds of notes (audio, text, image) but makes it easy to share those notes. 

These add-ons can help capture information on the internet to share with your students. The information does not have to be text based to share.

Drag & Drop.io 2.0.1: Store and share pictures, videos, audio, documents and more without an account, registration or email address. Sharing is private.

Easy way to create mashups of video, audio, graphics, and text, and publish for sharing.

Create and share flashcards online, make the flashcard idea more interactive, allows you to capture some metadata and track how you are doing. If students are going to memorize something this might be a way of making it more interesting. Enables the input of video, audio files into flashcards.