A far-from-comprehensive list of technology tools (for final adventure project work) and in-class student tech demos.
Media Tools Video
iMovie or Windows Movie Maker (PC): Create video works, documentary films, visual essays, cinematic works (any genre), poetronica, experimental films. For newer PCs/Windows, you can edit/creative video films using Microsoft Photo.
Shotcut: Free Cross Platform Video Editor
Camtasia (Screen Capture)
Open-Broadcast Software (Screencapture / Streaming – Free)/ Jing (free) or Camtasia (free trial only) ; Apowersoft (free) or Screencast-O-Matic (Free).
Knowledge Visualization, Mapping, Timelines (Add Links)
Tour Builder (for Place-Based Digital Stories)
NFB-Stop Motion App / NFB Education Site: See also Stopmotion Magazine / Bruce Bickford / N. McLaren, Neighbors
Twine is an easy-to-use browser-based tool for creative interactive, non-linear narratives (multimodal stories, poetry, essays, or really any genre) and interactive narratives games.
iBook Author: Interactive multimodal publishing: integrates texts, images and graphics (knowledge visualization and modelling), video works, audio soundfiles, interactive min-presentations, 3-D modelling tools. Mac only.
Ren Py Visual Novel and Game Creator
Super-8 (App) supports retro film aesthetic (e.g, in the tradition of older documentary films, family movies, including frame stutter and light-leak distortions).
Action Movie Effects (App: same developer as Super-8) is a silly, incorrect app that allows you to add spider attacks, explosions, avalanches and meteor strikes (and so on) to your narrative.
Glossary of Technical & Aesthetic Film Terms: Filmsite.org
Open-Broadcast Software (Screencapture / Streaming – Free)/ Jing (free) or Camtasia (free trial only) ; Apowersoft (free) or Screencast-O-Matic (Free).
Multimodal Text Production
iBook Author is a free tool enabling users to write their own multimodal texts (integrating audio and video files, multimodal graphic texts)
Comiclife is a great platform for serious comics/graphic texts. Powerful and Free (plus I have some licenses upon request).
iPad Comic Makers: Apps I have used for Visual Essays, ‘Serious Comics’ and Zines include Halftone 2 and ComicBook! … Both enable you to import your pictures and posterize your images.
Klynt (HTML 5) Have one key for temporary sharing. Advanced but powerful.
Twine is an easy-to-use browser-based tool for creative interactive, non-linear narratives (multimodal stories, poetry, essays, or really any genre) and interactive narratives games.
Ren Py Visual Novel and Game Creator
Vidibox.com Compose video/soundworks by recording, sampling & remixing. Not just for VJs – limitless possibilities for multiple genres – buggy in record mode. Does not enable image files to be imported, but you can save images as movies (in iMovie, etc) and then import image in video format (image + time). VidiBox tutorials.
Digital Games
Twine is an easy-to-use browser-based tool for creative interactive, non-linear narratives (multimodal stories, poetry, essays, or really any genre) and interactive narratives games.
Twine / Twine on Gamasutra (Open Source Tool for Developing Non/Linear Narratives/Games
Scratch (MIT Site – Coding)
MIT App Inventor Start making apps today.
Makey-Makey / Arduino / Raspberry-Pi.org DIY maker space kits
Sounds / Music / Digital Audio Workstations
Garageband (DAW)
Audacity (Free) Edit, hack & tinker with your Audio-files (Remix/Mashup, Glitch-ify, Tempo Edit, Distort and Elongate, ect)…or use Audicity for Databending > see also: Circuit bending / Datamoshing / Glitch Art
Soundcloud and MixCloud (Free Publication/Sharing and Social Media Sites). Synthtopia Site for new digital tools, app reviews, models, technique-sharing. CCmixter Resource site for ‘remix culture’. Looping Tools (Resources for Digital and Analog Looping Tools & Techniques)…
Staffpad: Interactive composition and musical notation (real-time knowledge visualization tool)
MPC Sampling/Composing with Tablet App Version iMPC (iTunes)
Tenori-On / Tenori-On for iPad (Soundworks Composition based on innovative Tenori music hardware). Super.
Caustic for Android and for Ipad (Inter-expressive Keyboard, Beat, Editing Grid, MPC interfaces, Synth-based sound modifications, etc). Caustic is super.