TokBox - Free Video Chat and Video Messaging

Just recently I found this website. It's a great tool to keep communication open with your students. Use it to send video messages via email (recipient will get a link to the video) or have a video chat with up to 20 people at once.

The advantage to this is that there's no software to install, you just need a microphone and webcam to use it.

I find that it's often difficult to reply to email questions because the explanation is hard to communicate via typed message. I plan to use this as a way to respond to my students with questions that can't be answered with just an email. (Students don't have to have an account, but can sign up free and reply via video message as well.)

http://www.tokbox.com