Audacity: Downloadable open-source software for recording, conversion, editing, and exporting audio files through a simple and user-friendly interface. FREE.
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Historypin
Historypin : A crowdsourced collection of photographs, documents, sounds, and moving images that are geo-located. FREE.
StoryMapJS
StoryMapJS: Easily create stunning, embeddable, multimedia story maps with this free tool. You can use the default map, or create your own image map. Here’s an example:
JuxtaposeJS
JuxtaposeJS: create frame comparisons by using a slider and two images, as this example:
CartoDB’s Odyssey
CartoDB’s Odyssey: create interactive, map-driven stories in a simple sandbox, and embed the final product anywhere. Combine your text with Odyssey’s library , and explore templates, actions and behaviors directly on the sandbox prior to publishing. See an example.
Pixton
Pixton: An online tool which allows drag-and-drop creation of storyboards and comics. Allows for collaboration and available on both Android and iOS. Requires a free account. FREE.
Google’s Data Gif Maker
Google’s Data Gif Maker: a simple visualization tool that helps you illustrate a two-term data comparison in the form of a GIF. Simply add your terms and comma-separated values to the form in order to generate your downloadable GIF file. FREE.
Google Trends
Google Trends: visualize search topics trending on Google and YouTube. The platform generates line graphs and maps to illustrate the frequency of searches for your selected term(s); you can limit the scope of your research by time, location, category and type of search. FREE.
Zotero
Zotero:citation management tool available as a web page, a Firefox Web extension or as a stand-alone desktop application. Zotero senses and reads content from your web browser, enabling you to add references to your personal library with a single click. Great option for creating collaborative reference libraries, and sharing them online. CWYW plug-ins for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. …
Mendeley
Mendeley: reference manager and PDF organizer. CWYW (Cite while You Write) plug-in available for Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and BibTex. Web-based and downloadable software. FREE.
EndNote
EndNote: citation manager and personal reference library with capacity for PDF import and attachment. Offers CWYW (Cite while You Write) extensions for Microsoft Word and Pages. Licensed to NYU-ITS; FREE for the NYU community.
ARIS
ARIS: an open-source platform for developing (and playing) mobile games, tours, data collection activities, and interactive stories by way of GPS and QR Codes. Using a mobile device, players are able to “experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space,” as well as engage in social interaction around …
Google My Maps
Google My Maps : With Google My Maps, you can create custom maps to share and publish online. You can add multiple layers of locations, directions, photos and images. Data can also be imported and mapped. FREE.
NowComment
NowComment: Free web app for digitally annotating online documents in a “social context,” that is, allowing other students to read and add to each other’s annotations. Inline annotations on NowComment appear on a 2-pane interface, alongside the respectively annotated parts of the text, enabling contextualized reading and analysis. NowComment annotates html and Microsoft Word documents, but PDF upload …
Skype
Skype: stable group video and/or audio calls with the maximum capacity of 25 individuals. FREE software installation and registration required. Mobile app available.
VLC
VLC: open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays virtually any multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Can do media conversion and streaming. See how to use VLC as a screencast tool. FREE.
Life
Life: an alternative, more static, browser-based platform for creating timelines. Follow instructions on how to build in the README.md. Requires a free Github Pages account. FREE
TimeMapper
TimeMapper: ideal for integrating timelines to a map. Uses Google Spreadsheets as your data and links source. Easy to publish and share in multiple platforms, but is not embeddable in a Web Publishing site. See an example of TimeMapper, as used by Gallatin’s Lauren Walsh. FREE; no signup required.
TimelineJS
TimelineJS: import a Google Spreadsheet as your data source, add photos, tweets, videos, audio maps and website links to your timeline, and embed into your website. FREE; no signup required.
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.