Kaltura Capture: This is a screen-recording software native to NYU Stream. Using this software requires the user to download a desktop application that they can use to record their screen, themselves, or both simultaneously. Videos captured with the software are hosted in the user’s private NYU Stream Library. This screen recording software has the added benefit of working offline. FREE
Annotation
Loom
Loom: This is a screen recording platform offering both a desktop client and Google Chrome extension. Users can select how they want to record to suit their needs with the desktop client having a few additional annotation tools. When the recording is done, it automatically uploads to the user’s Loom account where they can change the privacy and invite selected viewers to use the video. FREE/PAID
Vimeo Record
Vimeo Record: A Google Chrome extension that allows users to easily record their screen. The video is automatically uploaded to Vimeo where users can change the title, privacy, and other features before sharing it with students. Free accounts can upload up to 5GB of content a week. FREE/PAID
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic: A video creation tool that allows a user to record their screen and create simple recordings via a downloaded tool. Users can take high-resolution videos of screen recordings up to 15 minutes in length and add caption files. Videos are stored in an online hub and links can be shared with students and colleagues.
PowerNotes
PowerNotes: an easy-to-use, minimally intrusive Chrome extension for web annotation and citation management. Ideal for taking quick or extensive annotations on texts you read online while the platform automatically stores your highlights, notes, and links to the sources, allowing you to organize them into different topics and different projects. You can export an outline of your annotations to a Word document. FREE/Paid
Tropy
Tropy: research photo management software that allows you to organize your digital images in collections and boxes, tag, annotate them, and export your research files. FREE.
Hypothes.is
Hypothes.is: a browser plugin that will allow you to add a layer of comments to any website or PDF. Add images, hyperlinks, block quotes, or lists to your comment, and reply on the comments of others. See the “getting started” tutorials or the Quick Start Guide for Teachers. FREE
Google Docs
Google Docs: share Google Docs in order to collaborate on text documents, or limit students to “comment” on documents you don’t want them to edit. It autosaves every 2 seconds, allows synchronous editing, keeps a full revision history (which allows you to see who does what on group projects) and saves all comments automatically. FREE
Medium
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.
Scalar
Scalar: open-source, media-rich scholarly publishing platform ideal for creating non-linear narratives. Requiring minimal technical expertise, this platform offers its authors a robust database system for to catalogue their work, which can be experienced by the public through different pathways, and from different access points. It supports collaborative authoring, reader comments, and offers a wide range of annotating tools. FREE.