Here's a simple little online application that easily sets up group chat sessions.

Simply click on Neat Chat, enter a nickname. You'll be given a URL that you can send to your group through email, twitter of facebook.

Here's a site ( thanks Brian R) that would be good to help you or your students document sources using MLA or APA
http://www.easybib.com/

Jane's 25 Places to find instructional videos

1. 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos
2. Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
3. blip.tv - next generation TV network
4. Google Video - videos on all topics
5. Graspr - The instructional video network
6. Howcast - How-to videos
7. iCue - A fun, innovative, learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives
8. Instructables - Make, HowTo and DIY
9. iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.
10. John Locker - Documentaries and educational videos
11. MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)
12. MonkeySee - HowTo videos
13. neoK12 - free educational videos and lessons for K-12 school kids
14. Research Channel - 3,500 video titles available
15. SchoolTube - provides students and educators with a safe, world class, video sharing webiste
16. Sparkeo - a flexible video platform
17. SuTree - learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.
18. TeacherTube - educational videos
19. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
20. TV Lesson - How to videos
21. Ustream - watch live broadcasts, explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or review our past broadcasts.
22. Video Jug - Life explained. On film.
23. Vimeo - a thriving community of people who love to make and share videos
24. YouTube - videos on everything under the sun
25. YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US.

On learning, students today, multitasking, video game addiction and learning. Watch it online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/