Ted-Ed video flipping “tool”

The folks who brought you TED have created a site that facilitates your repurposing any YouTube video as a lesson.

Plenty of examples, and you can click on the “Take the TED-Ed tour” button underneath the big graphic for a brief rundown:
http://ed.ted.com/

If you haven’t tried Google Drive or Hangouts…

Brian Janz of the University of Memphis writes about some good reasons to test drive these open tools:

…”The Google Drive Toolkit
I am quite impressed by the breadth of tools available within the Drive platform, and it just keeps getting better. Of course there is the Word-like word processor that is the most well-known tool in Drive, but there is also a very serviceable Excel-like spreadsheet tool, a very functional PowerPoint-like presentation tool, a fine Visio-like drawing tool, a Survey Monkey-like survey tool (called a “Form” in Drive), and what I consider a best-of-breed video conferencing capability called a Hangout (while not strictly speaking a Drive tool, it is in the Google family…more on this later).”…

See his full post on WCET’s Frontiers blog:
http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/collaboration-with-open-tools/