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More twitter for teacher links than you'll ever need - scan through and see if one strikes your fancy.

TurningPoint and TurningPoint AnyWhere (both Mac and PC) are used at DUSON as a 'clicker' technology to engage students in the classroom.

"Qualitative Research Online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, and teaching qualitative research in the health sciences."

comprehensive collection of materials to help nurse educators understand and conduct qualitative research

Jing is featured in this list, as well as a few other tools for recording voice and screen video

Labyrinth is an experimental educational pathway authoring and delivery system being developed at the University of Edinburgh along with a number of other partners. Users are presented with set or randomly selected choices as they move through a Labyrinth, each of which has a consequence for the user. Examples include virtual patients, quizzes, games and tutorials.

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A guide for becoming a better screencaster. IMHO, screencasting is what professors are doing when they record a lecture for students. This may help improve the quality of those 'recorded lectures'

"Overview of the Copyright Law and Educational Uses"

Another example of using Jing, a previous iNET featured tool, to give student feedback. Jing is a free and simple to use screenrecording application, which is perfect for recording short 'screencasts', tutorials, instructions, and annoucements.

I did similar screen casts when I taught graphic design. It was so much better than textually critiquing something very visual...and it took less time. The students liked the video because it helped them "See" the things they could improve upon and they liked hearing the tone of the voice which helped eliminate any misinterpretations of the critique...meaning I wasn't out to get them.