** Jing - I'm such a big fan of Jing. This FREE program allows you to create screenshots and voice/video tutorials and share with others via a URL (you can also choose to save them to your hard drive). I love the ease and low learning curve of this software, and that you can so easily share your work with others. I have used this several times with students and colleagues to demonstrate a concept. Here is an example of a tutorial created for students.
The ways this can be used with students are really limitless. This could help explain a confusing concept or give an introduction to a great site or program they might ant to use in a learning unit. Or this might be used with parents to show tools they can use at home to better help their children learn a concept.
The one thing to note is these tutorials do use Flash so viewers would need to download the latest version of Flash to view the materials.
** Viddler - this free online video sharing site has a couple of great features that I haven't seen in all video storage sites.
1- It allows a user to directly record a webcam video onto their site. You don't need to record it on your own computer, save it and then upload it. You may record and upload it all at the same time and then it's available for others to view. Here is an example of one I did to try out the service.
2- It allows for comments to be placed at certain spots of the video. So instead of commenting on the video as a whole, you can make a comment at, say, 1:46 seconds into the video. Additionally, these comments can be threaded among several people. So fellow classmates/colleagues can comment on your comment. It's a great way to generate discussion at certain points of the video.
I really believe both of these tools could add to the classroom in unique and extremely beneficial ways.
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