Category Archives: RESOURCES: Apps for Creating New Media Projects

DESKTOP, MOBILE, & WEB APPS for Composing Comics

Want to try conveying a message in the form of a comic strip or comic book “short story”? Check out the options below, but also do your own Google searches …

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DESKTOP & WEB APPS for Creating Screencasts (aka Screen Recording)

NOTE: For related posts, browse the tag archive for: screencasting A screencast is a video recording of whatever is displayed on the forefront of your computer screen. Screencasts can be …

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DESKTOP & WEB APPS – Composing with Video

For most video projects, you will need to be able to make basic edits to videos you download or create, including cropping and trimming selections, adding title cards and transitions, …

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GUIDE – Uploading Videos to Web Hosting Sites (aka Exporting in "Web Ready" Video Format)

WHAT IS “WEB READY” FORMAT? iMovie and Windows MovieMaker are non-linear video editing systems, which means that they allow you to assemble video projects from a variety of media files …

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ABOUT – What Apps & Web Sites Can I Use for New Media Writing?

For a definition of “new media writing,” see: ABOUT – What is New Media Writing? Here is a “big picture” guide to the kind of apps and web sites you …

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WEB APPS for Creating and Sharing Mind Maps

ABOUT MIND MAPS Mind maps are incredibly helpful as planning tools, but you can also use them to present concepts to an audience. Mind maps typically follow a hierarchical structure, …

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WEB APPS for Creating Presentations & Slideshows

You can use the apps on this page to create presentations with beautiful templates and simple animations as well as slideshows with music or captions. Also see: WEB APPS for …

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DESKTOP & MOBILE APPS – Stop Motion Animation

ABOUT ANIMATION: To learn more about different forms of animation, see this guide: Different Approaches to Animation For more animation apps, see: Desktop & Mobile Apps for Animation STOP MOTION …

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DESKTOP, WEB & MOBILE APPS – Keyframe Animation

ABOUT ANIMATION: To learn more about different forms of animation, see this guide: Different Approaches to Animation DESKTOP APPS Animated Stories Plotagon (Mac, Windows, iPad; free) invites you to enter …

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WEB, DESKTOP, & MOBILE APPS for Working with Images, Photos, and Graphics

Apps for working with images come in two varieties: pixel-based and vector-based. Pixel-based apps are best for editing photos and making images out of layers, while vector-based apps are best …

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DESKTOP APPS for Editing and Composing with Audio

Overview In order to create an audio story or essay, or to create an audio voiceover for a video, you’ll need two things: (1) a recording device (a laptop with …

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WEB APPS – Create and Host Your Own Blog, Wiki, or Web Site

BLOGS WordPress.com (by far the most popular free blogging platform) Tumblr (a close second in popularity to WP and gaining; much more limited interface, but super easy to use) WIKIS …

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WEB APPS for Creating Infographics

Infographics have long been popular ways to share information in visual formats, but only recently have tools emerged that allow anyone to create an infographic without needing access to professional …

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WEB APPS for Composing Photo Stories

You can also use presentation tools to compose photo stories. See: WEB APPS for Creating Presentations & Slideshows The web apps available for composing photo stories are typically classified as …

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DESKTOP, WEB & MOBILE APPS – Frame by Frame & Cartoon Animation

ABOUT ANIMATION: To learn more about different forms of animation, see this guide: Different Approaches to Animation For more animation apps, see: DESKTOP & MOBILE APPS – Stop Motion Animation …

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WEB APPS for Creating & Sharing Timelines

Timelines offer an interesting way to present information about changes over time. Dipity.com From the Dipity web site: “Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize …

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DESKTOP, WEB & MOBILE APPS – Apply Cartoon Effects to Video and Photos

Using these apps gives you an easy way to turn photos and video clips into custom content for your projects. DESKTOP APPS Cartoonize Video (for Windows — free trial available) …

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WEB SITES for Hosting Content to Share by Link or Embed in Blog Posts

A “hosting” site is one that allows users to upload and publish their own content, so that they can easily share the content with others by distributing the link or …

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WEB RESOURCES – Collections of Digital Storytelling Tools

Some digital storytelling tools are hard to classify, so I’m sharing these collections in case you find an app on one of them that suits your needs. A FEW COLLECTIONS …

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WEB APPS – You Can Connect & Use with Google Drive

Check out the wide variety of web-based apps you can connect to your Google Drive account. The link takes you to the Chrome store, but once a tool is connected …

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WEB APPS for Planning Visual Projects

You can find lots of planning tools, particularly storyboard tools, with a little Google searching. I found the one below on this page of Digital Storytelling Tools and thought it …

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WEB APPS for Creating Word Clouds

Super easy ways to create art for your blog! Tagxedo Wordle