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Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Windows only.

Mathway is an automated math tutoring sytem that allows students to enter in their actual math problems and provides solutions with step-by-step explanations. Any math problem you might have isn't just solved, the solution is revealed in logical, easy-to-follow steps, so the user gets more than the answer, the user gets the tools to the answer so that it can then be applied to similar questions. Besides being entirely free, users select the type of math problem they'd like help solving, from Basic Math to Pre-Algebra to Algebra to Linear Algebra to Trigonometry to Prevalculus to Calculus. Then, it's a matter of simply entering in a problem and clicking on "answer." The program also has sample problems, and provides graphing and glossary definitions.

Information Literacy Games: Finding Kermit This blog post features a great video of Kermit the frog singing It Ain't Easy Being Green. It follows up with an explanation of a search game that can be used with the whole class in a lab or on an individual workstation. It's part of a free series of online information literacy / information fluency games available from 21cif.com. Finding Kermit was the inspiration for one of the first Internet Search Challenges created by Dr. Carl Heine. The task is to track down a picture of Kermit ready for graduation in the least amount of time. The search game is embedded on the page so you can try it without going to the main site. Many teachers use this as a whole class lab activity. Put up a search challenge and then it's off the races! Most of these games were developed for middle and high school students. Adults find them challenging as well.