Infographics/Visualization

Bitstrips and Bitmoji— make your own comic strips or emoji (free app for iOS, Android, Kindle, or Facebook)

Piktochart — easy infographics (free online)

Smore — online flyers (free online)

Wordle — creates word clouds out of your text (free online)

MakeaGIF.com — creates GIFs automatically (free online)

Storify — collects and organizes information from all over the web, including tweets, GIFs, articles, pictures, etc. (free online)

 

Image/Video Editing and Annotation

Adobe Photoshop — photo/image editing software (available on ECDS computers, third floor Woodruff Library)

Picmonkey — easy photo/image editing (free online)

VoiceThread — image and video annotation and commenting (free account online, must register)

VideoAnt — annotate videos from YouTube or Vimeo (free online)

Jing — create and edit screencasts (aka, recordings of your computer screen) (free download)

[in]Transition — has lots of examples of video essays for inspiration

 

Video Production and Editing

iMovie — inexpensive video editing software for Macs (available at Cox Hall, ECDS, and check here for other locations)

Final Cut Pro — video production and editing software (available at Media Lab and ECDS)

Adobe Creative Cloud — including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver, Audition, and Premier Pro (available at Media Lab and check here for other locations; some programs available at ECDS)

Borrow cameras, microphones, and other equipment from the Music and Media Library

[in]Transition — has lots of examples of video essays for inspiration

 

Audio Editing

Audacity — sound editing software (free download)

Adobe Audition — sound editing software (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, at Media Lab)

Borrow microphones and other equipment from the Music and Media Library 

 

Web, Gaming, and Design

Adobe Creative Cloud — including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver, Audition, and Premier Pro (available at Media Lab and check here for other locations; some programs available at ECDS)

Scratch — create simple computer programs, animations, or video games (free online)

GameMaker — create video games without programming (free software)

Flowlab Game Maker — create simple games online (free online)

Sploder — create simple games online (free online)

 

Interactive Stories

Racontr — make interactive stories with images, text, video, etc. (free online)

Twine — make primarily text-based video games or nonlinear stories (free software)