Creativity Resource

Let's say one of my students misses a class and they need to make up the time. There are 30 classroom hours, and 6 driving hours required in Iowa to complete driver education. I can put situational videos of actual driving senarios on Thing Link and can send via Facebook or Twitter. Students can blog about what's happening, the errors made and add how they would correctly navigate the situation. It would take some planning and videoing for me as the teacher, but a good way to reach kids and maybe they could comment on any similar situations they've seen (say riding with parents or others).

Not all comments on this app (Thing Link), were positive. Some said it's not a free app and it was hard to get tech support. Others gave rave reviews on the 360 degree video views, which would be good in a driving video.

Teaching Spanish and using video and audio clips is a great way to reach students individually as well as those that might be absent. What and exciting and great teaching tool.
However, I have a concern about many of the programs that I researched and the cost of them. School systems don't have the funds to pay for all of these awesome innovations that could benefit our students. That is discouraging.

A free resource that may meet your needs is Flipgrid.  It is a quick win and great for formative assessment.  You may post a video and students respond.  Try it!  I think you'll like it.