LibGuides: * Digital Media Studies: Media Creation Tools & Labs

Posters or printables

Piktochart
Create and share infographics. See also Piktochart tips and design best practices.
Canva
Create and share infographics. Canva also offers some great instruction on infographics design.
Glogster
Create interactive multimedia posters.
Impactful Scientific Posters-The Basics (2 min. video)
General template for scientific poster
infogr.am
Web-based tool for creating digital infographics that can be embeded on a website and/or published and linked to the infogra.am site. Create charts using real data with 31 chart options.
PPT Templates for Posters

Audacity
Recording and editing tool - Free
Garage Band
Apple App for recording and editing sound
GitHub’s Mac OS Audio Applications List
A curated list of windows applications for audio processing. Also lists apps for graphics design, file syncing and compression, screen casting, video game recording, and more.
GitHub’s Windows Audio Applications List
A curated list of windows applications for audio processing. Also lists apps for graphics design, file syncing and compression, screen casting, video game recording, and more.
Soundcloud
A recording and podcast publishing tool

Animoto
Create video pieces from your photos, video clips and music.
Digital Films
iMovie
Easy to use Apple software - app for phone and software for Mac.
iMovie Tutorial for Beginners on YouTube
iMovie Tutorial for Beginners 2016 (iMovie 10.1)
Nimbus
Screenshot & Screencast capture (Google Chrome extension)
OpenShot
free, open source program for editing video content. Also see this How-To Tutorial .
Powtoon
Video creation tool. Videos of less than 100mb and 5 minutes in length or shorter are free.
QuickTime
Use the audio recording or video recording functionality to create screen recordings. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201066 for more QuickTime basics.
Screencastify
Screen video recording tool (Google Chrome Extension)
VoiceThread
Audio, video, discussion tool.
Voki

Google Forms
Create quizzes or surveys
PollEverywhere
Freemium (free for 25 responses or fewer).
TED-Ed
Ted-Ed permits you to build a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube video. There is also a library of lessons, many of which represent collaborations between educators and animators.
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create online interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises.
Mentimeter

Wordpress
Wordpress pages are a great platform for combining text and images. You can also install slider/slideshow plugins with more functionality or features, see https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/slider/
Google Slides
Create a Google Slide deck and publish it to the web to obtain a shareable link or the ability to embed it elsewhere.
flickr
Create a curated flickr album or photostream. Flickr makes it easy to publish photo essays under a creative commons license.
Exposure
A narrative-driven photo sharing site (includes free version for up to 3 posts and pay version with more functionality and posts).

Writing and Citing
Guide from the University of Rochester libraries featuring writing tips and citation style guides.
Writing, Speaking and Argument Center
Resources, tips and consultations are available to help you at any stage of the writing process

Collaborative Writing Tools

Getting started with Wordpress
Google Slides
h5p
H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content - all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.
List of Wiki Software
Prezi
Interactive presentation software.
Slideshare
Timeline JS
Tool to create an interactive timeline
Wordpress
Website and blogging platform

Find Images
(see even more on the Finding Media tab...)

Flickr (Creative Commons)
Use Flickr's advanced search to find photos and images which are available copyright free or through a Creative Commons license that allows for reuse.
Google Advanced Image Search
Search images and filter by usage rights to those free to use and share.
Morgue File
"Search morgueFile for free reference images. Yes, they're all completely free."
Pixabay
A repository for public domain images.

Edit Images

Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop software is available on the library's public computers.
Draw.io
A free online diagram software for making flow charts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams.
GitHub’s Mac OS Graphic Design & Image Editing Applications List
A curated list of mac applications for graphics and image processing. Also lists apps for audio processing, file syncing and compression, screen casting, video game recording, and more.
GitHub’s Windows Graphic Design & Image Editing Applications List
A curated list of windows applications for graphics and image processing. Also lists apps for audio processing, file syncing and compression, screen casting, video game recording, and more.
PicMonkey
Free photo editing software.
pixlr EDITOR
An online photo editor.

Comic Life
Digital comic creation software available on library computers in Library Suite A in Rush Rhees.