Blogger Andrew Miller offers some strategies for making the model work, including appropriate reflection, technology considerations, creating a need to know and more. Via Jason Baughman, Raymond Fyfe 
Capture anything you see on your PC screen with SnapIt. It is convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click. 
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This is a useful tool that allows you to 'embed' voice messages into QR Codes. This means that you can print up short message on paper or add them to websites for people to scan. Via Nik Peachey 
Flipping a classroom is not a teaching technique, it is more in line with a philosophy or way of teaching. It involves using technology as a tool, not the main focus, for helping students increase their understanding of science or math concepts. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
In an interesting move, Salaman Khan is opening up the Khan Academy to crowdsourced videos which will be curated by his team. 
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Helpful overview from JISC on what's involved in producing screencasts. Helpful tips on how to plan your screencast, tools you can use to create your screencast and the sort of equipment you need. Via Dundee TILT 
This is a great way to create and share video messages using only your webcam. You don't need any special software or to upload large files. You just record directly into your browser. Via Nik Peachey 
With Microsoft Expression Encoder 4, you can record a movie of your desktop screen of any size and simultaneously capture the webcam video and audio narration from a microphone.
Alternatively, you may capture the screen activity without the audio and add a voiceover later at the time of producing the video using the “Audio Overlay” feature.
Expression Encoder has been around for a while but with one limitation – the free version would only let you screen capture 10-minute video clips and if you were to record clip of longer duration, you had to switch to Expression Encoder Pro.
Well the good news is that Microsoft has recently released a new version – Expression Encoder SP2 – that contains bug fixes and stability enhancements and they’ve also dropped the time limitation.
Read more: http://www.labnol.org/software/camtasia-studio-alternative/20333/ Via Robin Good, Dundee TILT 
Educators and students who use technology can find themselves recording sound in a variety of ways, whether it's producing podcasts from cell phones, creating foreign language dialogues on laptop c... Via Dundee TILT 
The New York Times Research and Development brings its headlines, the weather, and more to your mirror. The 'Reveal' mirror displays media right in front of your face while you brush your teeth. Via FionnualaCarmichael 
Blogger and PBL specialist Andrew Miller offers an array of creative suggestions for using Quick Response codes in the classroom. 
Discussion of the Flipped Classroom - rich in comments.
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Connected Learning draws on the power of today's technology to fuse academic achievement through experiences laced with hands-on production, shared purpose and open networks. Via Raymond Fyfe 
Are you interested in bringing technology into your classroom? There's a suite of education Ipad apps available to help you do just that. Learn about them here.
Via Danita Russell TED Talks Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record. Screenr’s web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web. Just click the record button, capture your screen & voice, and share the link.
Screenr is a free web-based screencasting tool and you can login with a Twitter, Google, Facebook or Yahoo account. You can record up to 5 minutes, when you've finished you can preview your recording and then decide if you want to publish it.
Once published you can post to YouTube or you can download your video. If you don't want it to be public once it's published just download and then delete on the screenr.com website.
You can also embed screenr screencasts on other websites. Via Dundee TILT 
Let me pose this scenario: Via FionnualaCarmichael 
Welcome to another post rich in resources. If you have come here looking for links that will guide you to videos and multimedia to use in a Flipped Classroom that is coming in a future post. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
"@nancyrubin: 10 Ways to Change the Minds of Tech-Reluctant Staff http://t.co/AW3cl65O via @leecrockett #edtech #teaching #leadership"...
Via Danita Russell
A quick guide to QR codes and using them in your college/institution - with some practical tips and advice by Noel Davis JISC RSC South West e-Learning Adviser...
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