Parleys Desktop Application

Parleys Desktop Application

Parleys is a software suite and hosting site that allows you to incoporate video/audio with PowerPoint slides.... this has been done before.  What is new and worthwhile here is that you can tag and comment on the presentations while they are playing and follow up users can read your tags and comments.

Parleys most likely will work well in the asynchronous online classrooms because it mimics a lecture and allows feedback, questions, comments, etc... exactly where they would appear in the lecture.  The program itself is also featured filled with layout configurations.

Currently in Beta.

Link to  an example of hosting: Comparing Java Web Frameworks

Embedded example, not as featured filled:

Embed IT

Embed IT

Have you always wanted to embed an office document, picture, or media file in a webpage and didn't know how?  Well Embed It will allow you to upload a file and it will generate the needed package and code to embed it into an LMS or Webpage.

http://embedit.in/

Youtube EDU

Youtube recently launched thier education section.  This section sorts videos based on colleges and allows you to see what is the most popular.  It is a start and should be interesting and something to check on as it continues to grow.  I personally like the directory listen so I can see which colleges are participating and how much show.  This also could be a great resource for online courses and to supplement curriculum

http://www.youtube.com/edu?action_directory=1