Live Minutes - Free Conferencing (Webinar)

http://liveminutes.com

LiveMinutes is a FREE service that lets you organize web meetings (webinars) to share and annotate documents with team members, students, clients, etc. You can use LiveMinutes for internal meetings, training, teaching...FREE.

First, sign up for an account - follow the tutorial when you sign in.  To get started just click "start sharing" and a meeting space is created for you. That meeting space is assigned a URL that you can share with the people you want to join you.
 

Live Minutes offers a good selection of tools that you can utilize to share ideas with others. You can talk to each other using either the Live Minutes audio or by connecting through Skype. Live Minutes offers a collaborative whiteboard for drawing. You may upload images and documents for others to see and comment. And in the future Live Minutes will allow you to share videos during your webinar.

This is a great way to quickly host a live online tutoring session with students or talk to you collegues wherever they may be. The drawing option on the whiteboard could be very handy for illustrating concepts that are difficult to type quickly on a keyboard or that lose meaning when someone is just explaining rather than showing.

Really Free Conferencing!

Hangout with your friends or colleagues, share videos (up to 9) and conference for free. Join the call with your browser, Skype or your phone directly. No long distance charges, the number is toll-free, really.

More? In the US, you can even get called by the conference on your landline or mobile directly !

Meeting is recorded : The recording of your call are saved to your reports or to your Dropbox account.

 

WatchKnowLearn - Educational Videos

http://www.watchknow.org

Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal.  Launched in October 2009 after a year-long development period, WatchKnow is a wiki-style portal that gathers and organizes educational videos for students ages 3 to 18. An age filter slider allows you to easily focus your search. 

The Vision behind WatchKnowLearn is simple:
To provide a world-class, online domain on which educators can store, categorize, and rate the best, K – 12 educational videos on the Internet today. And to make this service FREE so teachers, parents and students everywhere may have access to those videos.

WatchKnowLearn has indexed approximately 50,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 5,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom, as well as parents and students at home 24/7.

ThingLink - Create video, music, text IN a picture!

http://www.thinglink.com

What is ThingLink?

ThingLink helps you create and discover rich images.

Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!

Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.

Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover.

Here is a link to a picture for Valentines' Day

 

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/346325469999661056?buttonSource=searchPage
You may click on the hearts and get a history of Valentine's Day or a Beatles' song, "And I Love Her."
Click on the link above and see how this works...

You may search by a subject.  There are many pictures with Martin Luther King Jr. with clicking points for his "I have a dream" speech, facts about his life, and websites for additional information. 

 

Simple task:  Locate a picture that relates to your topic.  Attach videos, music, text, images, websites, etc.to create a "talking" picture.  I can see some very interesting presentations!!!