KnightCite: a free and simple online citation tool from Hekman Library at Calvin College; ideal for citing only a few sources. Free.
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MeshMixer
MeshMixer: a simple introductory software for 3D modeling, able to easily clean up 3D scans, create new models and help you fix problematic geometry. MeshMixer asks you to “think of it as a sort of ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for 3D meshes.” Free.
Blender
Blender: a free intermediate 3D tool for pretty much anything: animation, rendering, modeling, etc. Blender’s open-source software model allows for a great community of users. While offering an impressive wheelhouse, however, the interface of this downloadable software is a rather complex. Free.
ZBrush
ZBrushCoreMini is a fun introduction to digital sculpting (aka 3D sculpting). This downloadable software mimics clay sculpting in its methods and is incredibly intuitive and easy to learn. Users are able to paint and customize models easily. Free.
Google Apps for Education
NYU has licensed a set of Google products to handle communication, calendars, file storage, and other teaching and learning apps, according to these Terms of Use. The full suite of Google Apps for Education include: Mail Calendar Drive (file storage and sharing) Classroom (course sites; NYU LMS (Brightspace) is the university’s official LMS) Docs (word processor) Sheets (spreadsheet) …
QuickTime
QuickTime: built in Mac Operating Systems, QuickTime offers a simple and fast solution for screen recording, with the option of recording your built-in microphone simultaneously. Files are saved in H.264 format QuickTime movie with an AAC audio track (if audio was selected). FREE.
LeafletJS
LeafletJS: An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Leaflet does not provide data for you, but you can convert your data to GeoJSON and then make a Leaflet map. Though Leaflet is not a GIS, it can be combined with tools like CartoDB. Check out this tutorial to get started. FREE.
Kaizena
Kaizena: Designed specifically for teachers to annotate and provide feedback on student work, Kaizena integrates directly with Google Drive. Instructors can create groups for each class and provide feedback on student work by adding comments, audio feedback, and scores with a rubric. For common issues, instructors can create a library of lessons designed to help …
Google Drawing
Google Drawing: Collaboratively draw and create graphics with everyone in the world, or just the people you invite. An example is here, where we’ve overlaid some graphics onto an image. It’s open to the public, so feel free to play! FREE
Inkscape
Inkscape: An open source vector graphics editor comparable to Adobe Illustrator. Inkscape can be used to create anything from graphics for websites to images ready for large format printers. FREE.
Voyant
Voyant: a browser-based interface that analyzes any imported text and generates collocates and line graphs, word clouds, most frequent words by section, etc. No account or sign-up needed. Voyant is “designed to make it easy for you to work with your own text or collection of texts in a variety of formats, including plain text, …
Gephi
Gephi: Gephi is an open-source tool for data visualization which runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Described as “Photoshop for graphs”, Gephi is a tool for exploratory data analysis which allows the user to interact with and manipulate the structures, shapes, and colors of the representation to intuitively look for patterns. FREE.
Plotly
Plotly: an online data visualization suite, Plotly provides online graphing, analytics, and stats tools for individuals and for groups. A NYU instance of Plotly is available at graph.nyu.edu, but is currently only accessible at certain NYU buildings. FREE
Raw
Raw: Raw is a web app that works with tabular data to create visualizations that you can then export. Upload your data in RAW by dropping a plain text file or by copying and pasting your data from a spreadsheet. RAW offers many kinds of charts, including circular dendrograms, cluster forced layouts, and scatter plots. …
Filtergraph
Filtergraph: A data visualization tool that grew out of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics and the Vanderbilt Initiative for Autism, Innovation and the Workforce. There is no need to create an account, and data can be uploaded within the browser. Map and graph visualizations can be exported as .svg files. There are also list …
Palladio
Palladio: A data visualization tool that was developed in Stanford’s Humanities and Design Lab. There is no need to create an account, and data can be uploaded within the browser. Map and graph visualizations can be exported as .svg files. There are also list and gallery views where data can be linked to outside web-based …
YouTube
YouTube: Did you know you can add annotations to any video that you upload to YouTube? There is no collaborative feature here, but it provides an easy way to add text, including links, to your video.Most popular video sharing platform, with capabilities for live streaming and creating video channels. Also, see tutorial for how to blur faces on YouTube …
Vibby
Vibby: Upload videos from YouTube and add comments to highlighted segments. Open it up to the public for their input. Annotated “vibs” are shareable and include analytics when you create one while logged in. 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
NYU Box
NYU Box: NYU-licensed free cloud storage with capacity for 50GB of storage, up to 10GB in size per file. Available for NYU faculty and full-time staff. Ineligible users may create a paid, non-NYU box account at box.com.