I went through several of the tools. Although some other members of the course wrote enthusiastically about teachthought.com, I had trouble accessing most of the tools there. I had to open a new window each time and type in the site name.
In the end, I decided to go with 2 sites that help you enhance lessons using youtube.
The first is: caption.appspot.com
This allows you to add captions to a personal uploaded video on youtube, or to an existing clip.
The second is: tubechop.com
This enables you to show just the important part of the clip without searching in front of the students.
I was looking for a good animation program that my students could use. I found goanimate.com and got all excited about it. Then I saw that it's not so simple.
Conclusion: Sometimes it's preferable to remain with the tried and true tools and just improve your use of them.
