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Watch YouTube videos with friends in real time. Plug in YouTube url, creates room so you can have live chat while watching video simultaneously

thought-provoking video by ALA about online privacy issues. Features ALA prez, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, etc. Very good resource for introducing privacy literacy discussion?

ASU's "The Library Minute" YouTube channel - brief videos about library services and tools.

Crazy idea? ETC creates a YouTube channel and does a series of brief screencasts where one or more of us (once a month?) demos a technology or tool or service and how we are using it or how we might want to use it for instruction within SUNY.

record screen activity to various video formats and can include audio as well. Freeware

blog post

Thomas A. DeVaney, from JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 5, No. 4 December 2009

Create a printable summary of your video/screencast - FLV format only, 25 MEG limit

An interactive branching storyline video series on YouTube that attempts to teach kids non-violence.

I now have it in my mind to create something like this for information literacy! Perhaps using screencasting and having students make critical choices in a sample research process that can then show them the outcomes of various strategies, from topic choice to searching to paraphrasing and writing.

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. The effect of the slideshow is known as "Ken Burns". Could see using this to make a tutorial, along with audio, out of screenshots? Or even a simple tour of building, etc.

easy to use tool to embed documents on any website and can mark up the documents for otherts to see. Also provides usage analytics & access controls.

This might be a nice way to both attach more specific help to online handouts and tutorials, giving them more context. You might even place a video tutorial made by another organization, for example, in the context of your own environment so students can make better sense of it in relation to your own library's resources.