Diigo: a browser plugin for your desktop and mobile devices that helps you collect and manage your internet research. Highlight text and add sticky notes to websites, take screenshots and annotate them with text and shapes. Store it all in your Diigo library, and share with others. Education accounts are available. FREE/Premium
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SparkVideo
SparkVideo: create videos by using the platform’s layouts, icons, images, fonts, and soundtracks. Add text and images to your video. Simple design and user-friendly interface makes SparkVideo a quick-and-easy tool to create appealing videos that can be shared in a variety of ways (e.g., e-mail and social media). Ideal platform for creating narrated videos as …
ThingLink
ThingLink: Create media rich tags, or touch points, to any image or video (video and VR/360° images are premium). ThingLink is one of our Featured Tools, so see a demo in our blog post, How to Annotate Images with ThingLink. Educator accounts are available. FREE/Premium
Mural
Mural: platform for spatial visualization of ideas, aimed for collaborative projects. Free for teachers and students. Free/Paid.
Blippar
Blippar: A simple drag and drop editing environment for creating augmented reality experiences. Pay for views upfront, or publish an experience right away for up to 100 free views. Free/Paid
Spotify
Spotify: download the free software to create, save and share playlists using music available on Spotify’s extensive collection, or do it all directly from your browser. FREE/Premium.
GarageBand
GarageBand: a digital music creation studio featuring a sound library that includes software instruments, digital amps and stompboxes, and sound effects. Useful for creating, recording, mixing, and sharing audio files. Available on Mac and iOS, integrated with iCloud. PAID (built-in most Mac computers).
Wideo
Wideo: a drag-and-drop video editing platform similar to iMovie. Cloud storage contingent on subscription plan. Option for paid educational account offering cross-platform access to shared media and collaborative video projects. FREE/Premium.
EkoStudio by Interlude
EkoStudio by Interlude: (Formally Treehouse by Interlude.) A free platform for creating interactive videos. Users can upload video clips and arrange them with a visual editor. Create menus for viewers to choose their path through the videos. Unlimited storage and projects. FREE/Premium.
iMovie
iMovie: streamlined video editing software designed for optimal usability. Available for iOS devices, and in OS desktops. Available on most NYU Macs. See NYU IT Software for more information.
Storybird Studio
Storybird Studio: a visual storytelling platform that curates original artwork to illustrate (and inspire) user-authored stories. Offers free trial educational accounts with simple classroom management tools. Free/Paid
Doodle Poll
Doodle Poll: easily and quickly create a free poll and send it off via Doodle’s built-in mailing system or via your own email account. With a yes/no voting system, Doodle Polls simplify scheduling hassles by generating visual representation of all parties’ availability schedules. Option to integrate with Google Calendar. FREE/Premium. No sign-up required.
Pocket: a “read later” cloud service that can be integrated with over 1,000 mobile apps as well as with Google Chrome. Use the Chrome extension to “pocket” (that is, save with one click) clutter-free versions of a webpage (articles, videos, tweets, etc) that can be later retrieved on the browser itself or on Pocket mobile …
Annotate.co
Annotate.co: an online annotation tool that allows you to collaborate with invited users in designated roles. Converts your documents and images to PDFs, stores them in workspaces, and lets you share single documents or entire workspaces. Add tags to documents, hold discussions, vote on annotations, and compare revisions. FREE (for sharing with up to 3 …
Miro
Miro: a whiteboard platform that simulates an infinite canvas in which to organize ideas, images, and graphs, amongst others. Enables synchronous editing, and provides TOC-like navigation through frames. Free version allows 3 boards, up to 4 editors per board.
Omeka
Omeka: flexible open-source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Scholars may use Omeka to publish an essay or digital dissertation, share primary source collections, and collaborate with others in the creation of digital scholarship, while educators may build inquiry-based tasks for students, create lesson plans with accompanying primary sources, or …
Evernote
Evernote: capture different types of content all in one note, including web content, images, documents, PDFs, emails, and related content from partnering digital content providers. Integrated with browsers through a WebClipper extension. FREE/Premium.
Focusky
Focusky: platform for creating and sharing “zooming presentations.” Available for download, and on browsers. FREE/Premium.
slid.es
slid.es: sleek web-based presentation software that offers collaborative authoring, live streaming and controlling presentations remotely with a mobile device. Public presentations available with free subscription. Private presentations with Pro or Team Plans. FREE/Premium.
Marq
Marq: Formerly Lucidpress. A drag-and-drop design platform that helps you create (and collaborate on) newsletters, magazines, posters, etc. Backs up different version history of your projects and offers easy import an flexible sharing options. Integrates with Google Classroom. Free accounts have a 3 document limit. Free/Paid