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"Ariel Braunstein, co-creator of the Flip Video camcorders, announced the launch of Knowmia, an online tutoring service for K-12 students. Knowmia is a digital repository with more than 7,000 videos culled from the Internet by the site's moderators in subjects from microbiology to Mandarin Chinese. The new site automatically searches through thousands of tutoring videos and recommends lessons based on the user's personal preferences"

This is a web 2.0 that can be used to create digital videos that can be used in lessons. You can bring different subjects to life by creating a videos using images, video clips, music and text.

YouTube is a resource site where you can host, tag and share videos. If you want to use a video, you can either link to it on the YouTube site or embed it into a web page or blog. It is therefore a useful resource of user-generated video content.

ThingLink's technology makes it possible to embed audio, video and rich media links directly in images and share them across the web.

A powerful tool for finding short clips for every class.

Great video tutorial to create a mindmap

I think this is may be an easier tutorial to follow (at least it was for me) to learn how to use Jing, both the screen capture and video applications. For more flexibility, upgrading and paying the nominal annual fee may be well worth it if you plan to use this application a lot.

Thanks, Barb!

This a youtube video that teaches you how to use Diigo in the classroom. It talks about how you can use it with your students. Shows how you can share information with your students as a group discussion and use it at home for homework purposes.