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 … Continue reading Using these apps gives you an easy way to turn photos and video clips into custom content for your projects. DESKTOP APPS […]
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 … Continue reading Image Story by Sheena (WRTG 3090 – Fall 2013) A young woman, left alone in this world when she was orphaned, struggles […]
Web site by Jess (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) My website, You are what you eat: The gender nature of food and drink explores how gender socialization has played a role in the eating patterns of masculine vs. feminine individuals. The way society has defined masculinity and femininity limits the way individuals can “perform” their gender. Society has […]
Pitch: A story about the day a young boy flatlined. View on YouTube Story by Christian (WRTG 3090 – Fall 2013) Behind the Scenes To recreate this story I went … Continue reading Pitch: What would you do if something you relied so heavily on was taken from you…while you were in the middle of […]
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, … Continue reading If you’re planning to compose a remix or video commentary, or you need a video clip for some other reason, you’ll probably […]
Preview is a PDF and image viewer made by Apple that comes installed with the Mac OS. While many web sites direct you to download Adobe Reader to open PDFs, I recommend that you use Preview instead, as it’s faster and less clunky than Reader, and it has more user-friendly annotation tools. If Preview isn’t […]
PSA video by Wylie (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) Tools/Approaches: images, audio clips, iMovie I’ve created this piece for both Christians and non-Christians alike. I want to show how negative … Continue reading Pitch: What would you do if something you relied so heavily on was taken from you…while you were in the middle of […]
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, with main topics branching out into sub-topics and sub-sub-topics. Some mind map tools allow you to embed images, videos, and links into the “nodes” for topics, which make […]
You might need to save a copy of a Google Docs document for several reasons. One common reason is to save a draft that has your peer review comments on it, so that you get credit for doing the peer review. Follow these steps to save a document for that purpose: (1) Go to the […]
ARTICLE VERSION WRONG WAY Pasting a plain URL is the wrong way. WordPress will not automatically turn URLs into clickable links, the way Facebook and G+ does, so pasting a plain URL is not particularly helpful to readers. RIGHT WAY Turning a word or phrase into a hyperlink to the URL is the right way. […]
This infographic does a nice job of introducing some basic principles of reader-friendly site design. What appears below is the top portion. To see the full infographic, go to: Anatomy of an Effective Web Design.
The Super Bowl is traditionally seen as a male dominated activity. Males get together once a year and share the camaraderie of drinking beer, eating junk food, and choosing a team to support or oppose. These common rituals are followed with extraordinary Super Bowl commercials, which are known to be highly priced and exclusive. They […]
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, … Continue reading Because you can find so many tutorials on Windows MovieMaker on the web, I don’t have a lot of details here. I […]
A wiki is a web site with pages that can be easily edited by anyone the site owner grants permission to, without the users needing to know anything about HTML. The user clicks “edit” to make changes to a page, types the changes into an editing window, and then uses a toolbar with options similar to […]
