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What is the flipped classroom? A reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive, teacher-created videos and moves "homework" to the classroom. Moving lectures outside of the classroom allows teachers to spend more 1:1 time with each student.

I recently heard an interview with acoustic engineer Trevor Cox and discovered his YouTube channel as a result. He's got some amazing videos related to sound that could be a great hypermedia tool for a science classroom.

A site which gives a lot of great information on multimedia and hypermedia uses in the classroom, as well as many informational resources.

There is a clear disconnect between the media students are accustomed to using outside the classroom and the media they predominantly use within the classroom. Students spend copious amounts of their free time socializing, shopping, and even studying on the Internet, where they are flooded with text, images, video, animation, and sound in what is a complex multimedia environment.

Website featuring celebrities reading children's books.

Read Aloud videos of picture books by celebrities.

I linked the k-2 reading section, but eSparkLearning has excellent learning videos for grades k-8.

A resource database for educational videos and games divided by subject and concept.

Great ideas for integrating video in the classroom.

Teachers who use instructional video report that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom.