Media Tools / Gizmos / Applications / Sites
Creative Commons (CC-Liscenced Legal Media) and WikiMedia (Free Legal Media Use/Community)
Search Creative Commons / Videvo: Free Stock Footage / Freesound.org
Archive.org / Archive.Org (old education clips for creative/critical remix)
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
Video Screen Capture: Free Alternatives to Camtasia (screen capture, tutorial production, editing digital stories, etc).
Knowledge Visualization, Mapping, Timelines (Add Links)
Google Maps and 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.
BookCreator Much less powerful than iBook author but works for PC and Macs.
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.
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).
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
Gimp (Free, Powerful)
Digital Storytelling: Serious Comics / Interactive Story-Telling / Remix Culture
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/cartoon your image (or with several similar apps, you can select template backgrounds, cartoon characters, etc).
Place-Based Inquiry, Mapping, and Narrative Tools: GoogleEarth Tour Builder
Storytelling with Maps/Tour-Builder FAQ (Collaborative Tours)
Twine is an easy-to-use browser-based gizmo for creative interactive, non-linear narratives (multimodal stories, poetry, essays, or really any genre) and interactive narratives games.
Comiclife is a very dynamic platform for serious comics/cartoons. You can select a version for ipad/iphone or a more comprehensive version for downloading on your computer (mac and PC) Free trial, but not expensive.
Krita – Free Art and Comic-Book Maker. Good stuff.
Resources for Graphic Novel Creation and Making Comics
Klynt: HTML 5 Digital Storytelling Hype: HTML 5 Digital Storytelling
Splice (Mobile Video Editor)
Machinima: Create a video narrative or document using video games, etc, as your source (remix culture).
Before LOMO-Imitating digital Apps & Retro-Filters, there was actually a Soviet-made 35mm film camera, the LOMO – ‘the original camera app’. Remarkable night and low-light shots, surreal colour saturation, and real organic vignetting. Gestural fun, invites experimental attitude, and (not infrequently) great results: the original improvisational, DIY/chance-operations action-camera aesthetic for anyone.
Did the LOMO Save Photography? (BBC) A LOMO ‘affinity group’ (Gee, 2003) appeared in the early 1990s, advancing the experimental, democratic aesthetic associated with Lomography.
Camera+ Image Editing with Filters (including Lomo). Also good for preparing images for iMovie or cartoon-makers, etc… Introduces camera users to darkroom terminology, image-editing terms, photography aesthetics, and classic camera models.
Hipstamatic (Lomo/Holga-style with light-leak effects) & LO-Mob (Retro-Filters)… on and on…
Collage Makers: PhotoShop Mix & Gimp (Free) Befunky has site and app. Paper and scissors still work very well, with a digital picture chaser, as does Photoshop Touch.
Open-Broadcast Software (Screencapture / Streaming – Free)
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
TechSmith (Including Camtasia, Jing, Slide Capture, Multimodal Presentations, etc)
Splice (Mobile Video Editor)
Audio Tools (Soundworks Composition, Editing, Remixing, Publication, etc)
Propellerhead (Suite of Desktop and Mobile Music-Making and Remix Apps)
Audiotool.com Cloud-Based Composing/Mixing & Sharing (with server-side software). Free
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.
ToneMatrix Matrix-based Looping (just so-so)…but free.
Synthstation (Soundworks Composition – Inter-expressive Keyboard, Beat, Editing Grid, MPC interfaces)
Audiobus ‘Meta-App’ for app-to-app connection (bussing) or using external microphone, voice, instruments in app-to-app configuration (e.g., Garageband, Loopy, etc).
Game Design / Makers / Tools
Twine / Twine on Gamasutra (Open Source Tool for Developing Non/Linear Narratives/Games)
Codea: iPad game maker / code-learning
Scratch (MIT Site – Coding)
Mindmapping Tools & Multimodal Presentation Media (can also be used for collaborative work)
General Media / Multiple Uses
Nearpod (Interactive Presentation Tool with quiz games, polls, feedback systems etc.)
Padlet (Interactive Virtual Wall)
Camtasia (Screen Recording)
Screen Capture Tools (Webpage with Links)
Lightbox (learn to code)
Processing.org (learn to code and create multimodal documents through free open-source software sketchbook – a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual/multimodal documents and artworks.
Makey-Makey / Arduino / Raspberry-Pi.org maker kits
Participatory Cultures: Wiki Media and Community-Created Sites
WikiSpaces & MediaWiki.org / Wikia – Start your own Wiki (fan-powered wikis, special interest wikis, educational wikis)
Fanfiction / Top Fanfiction Portals / Deviant Art (Fanfiction)
Hit Record / Find a Creative Challenge
Media Smarts Media Smarts.ca / Digital Media Fundamentals / Teacher Resources
Media Smarts / Media Smarts Ontario [Expectations by Content Area – See Left Navigation Bar]
This is a quick introduction to the SAMR Model, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura. It is not meant to be an in-depth view of the model.
Data Visualization Tool Kit and Data Visualization Models
New London Group (1996). A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: New London Group. Harvard Educational Review
New Learning: Transforming Designs for Pedagogy and Assessment (Website)
Multimodal Media Glossary (Glossary of Terms for Multimodal Literacies)
Everything is a Remix (Fun videos on remix, remix culture, and creativity – and good model for digital storytelling)
Natuaural and Responsive Ecology Lab (Sounds/Smell) Edward Tufte (Beautiful Evidence) / Ward Shelly (Art Maps)
Multimedia/Interactive Documentary