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Thought provoking post about screencasting.   However, how about using screencasts as method of assessing student learning?

Here are a few strategies that will improve your students' attitude toward math and word problems. With these tips, students will look forward to math problems rather than dreading them!

Using Web 2.0 to create Interactive Lecture with Your Students

What is Soshiku? Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS. And it's totally free.

Avoid phishing, malware, and viruses by examining short URLs before visiting them. Find out where links really take you.

In spite of all the talk about Twitter in connection with the Iranian elections and all things international as of late, I doubt that many of my university colleagues will be including Twitter on a syllabus this fall. I've talked before about the "Twitter Cycle" or the fact that, at first glance, Twitter appears trivial, and even, dare I say, stupid. The fact that one's thoughts need to be distilled to 140 characters or less constitutes a seemingly outwardly unacademic endeavor and therefore many open a Twitter account, declare it the dumbest thing ever and never return again. In this post I have two bold goals: to briefly lay out the case why Twitter is the platform for the globally minded and to provide 10 tools that I believe are central to those interested in all things global, including language learning.

"What's Sketchcasting? Step 1 Record a sketch with or without voice. Explain something, have fun, or create art. Step 2 Then embed the sketch player in your blog or point people to your sketch channel. "

"Classroom Video ConferenceThe author of two books, 12-year-old Adora Svitak published her first, Flying Fingers, at the age of seven. In addition, she has spoken at some of the nation's pre-eminent education conferences and taught students around the world via her video conferencing programs. Most recently, she spoke at the TED conference. "