Tag: Free

Moodle

Moodle: a robust, open-source Learning Management System (LMS) with great customization capabilities catered specifically to your course’s needs.

Trello

Trello: Pinterest-like visual project management platform with sync capabilities. Web-based and downloadable softwares. FREE.

Emaze

emaze: cloud-based presentation software with 2D and 3D slides and templates. Browser and PC downloads available. FREE.

Prism

Prism: by using differently colored highlighters that correspond to themes, this app allows you to collaboratively create thematic visualizations of a text. Best for when you want to show thematic patterns and similarities/differences of readers’ perception. However it does not allow you to write about a text. FREE

Google Forms

Google Forms enables you to poll, quiz, or collect information from survey takers. Once there, you can add questions, edit the form layout, and set restrictions. Part of NYU’s Google Apps for Education suite.

SnapMap

SnapMap: places an Instagram user’s 20 most recent geo-tagged photos onto a map that can be shared instantly or exported into StoryMapJS. FREE.

Map Warper

Map Warper: an open source map warping/geo rectifying service. Find maps and other imagery, organized by tags, upload your own, and correct them against a real map. Also check NYPL’s Map Warper database, and how to integrate it with CartoDB.

Clio

Clio: a website and mobile app that uses GPS to locate a user’s location and guide them to historical and cultural sites around them. Each entry contains information such as links to relevant books and articles, sources, and media files. FREE.

Scratch

Scratch: web-based platform designed to facilitate coding focused on output. Create interactive videos, games, and presentations using Scratch’s user-friendly interface.

Preview (Mac)

Preview (Mac): default image viewer and editor on Mac desktops and laptops, Preview offers a limited number of capabilities such as text annotation and markups, changing image orientations, cropping, adjusting color and size, as well as exporting files in different formats.

Paintbrush

Paintbrush: using a simple and familiar-to-most interface, Paintbrush covers the most basic needs for image editing, including rotating, adding text and other rough annotations, cropping, and resizing. Not a high-end image editor. FREE.

FotoFlexer

FotoFlexer: a robust browser-based image editor, no download required. Upload images from your hard drive, using URLs, or upload photos from cloud storages such as Flickr, Picasa, and others, and export edited images in JPEG or PNG formats. FREE.

GIMP

GIMP: GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a robust open-source graphics editor. With plenty of tools available, GIMP works with several file formats and lets you edit images in layers, add image animation by way of a plugin, and more. It’s like a pared-down version of Photoshop. FREE.