Jing

Have you used Jing? It's a free screen capturing service.

I was able to make this video in literally less than 5 minutes. It's so cool! It's really quick and easy.. and I can envision it being really helpful when email or chat reference hits a dead end. You know? I usually take a lot of screenshots in those situations and request the student's email address, but we could just paste the Jing video URL into the Meebo chat with this service.

free educational videos online

I discovered that many videos from NOVA and National Geographic are available online for free. (Yes, including at least one I purchased a while back.)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/

Additional videos are available for streaming from Annenberg Media. They're not to be downloaded, and the user needs to sign in to a free account.
http://www.learner.org/index.html

I put links to the home pages and to some specific videos on our Delicious page, tagged with videos and other tags when relevant.

Great academic skills videos

These videos are pretty cool. Peer-review is explained in the Database module.