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Venngage: This is a great tool for creating several different types of visual materials, such as infographics, presentations, reports, diagrams, and lesson plans. The tool has a variety of templates for you to choose from, and you’ll find the templates’ ease-of-use convenient when you want to build visuals in a short amount of time. Venngage is also cloud-based, so you can continue working on templates from any device. Create up to five free projects. FREE/PAID
Grammarly: a textual analysis tool that offers suggestions to improve your writing. It reviews punctuation, spelling, grammar, formatting, and speech conventions. Available as a desktop app or browser extension. Free/Paid.
Hemingway: a text editor designed to help improve your writing by analyzing its readability and making grammatical suggestions. Available as a desktop software (paid) or as an online platform (free).
WriterDuet: screenwriting software with cloud-based collaborative features, outline/corkboard viewing mode, and support for several file types. Free trial for your first three screenplays; subscription plans and one-time-purchase available. Free/Paid.
Medium: a sleek blog-publishing platform designed for optimizing interactions between author and readers with marginalia comments, which can be made private or public (the latter, with the approval of the author). Comments can be enabled in fully published mode or in draft mode (whose visibility is limited to individuals with the unlisted link). Great platform for collaborative authoring and/or annotating text. The blog also aggregates post by themes, rather than authors allowing users to find stories that are similar to their “favorites.” FREE.
See our post on How to Use Medium in the Classroom.
Scrivener: content and generation platform that offers several organization tools for your library. Contextualize your documents, add annotations, and seamlessly navigate through research documents without leaving the application. 30-day free trial period available. PAID.