Recommended Apps & Tools | Digital Writing 101
Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
Tags: audio, media converter, video
OVERVIEW Below is an ever-expanding list of the software applications I recommend you have available, even if only in free trial mode, in order to work on digital composition projects. …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
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, …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
Tags: audio
Overview In order to create an audio story or essay, or to create an audio voiceover for a video, you’ll need two things: (1) a recording device (a laptop with …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
Tags: mics
Amy’s WRTG classes require students to compose projects using a variety of digital media, which means that students should have access to the following hardware equipment: If you’re a student …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
Tags: animation
You don’t need to know a thing about the technical details of creating animations, nor do you need to be at all artistic, to make some pretty amazing animated cartoons. …
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COMIC STRIPS Probably the best known app for creating comics is Comic Life, which is available in a trial version for both Macs and Windows. It’s very easy to use …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
Tags: Mac, photo essays
OVERVIEW In order to create a photo essay, you will need to use an application that allows you to combine, edit, and adjust photos and audio and export the resulting …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
Tags: photo essays, Windows
OVERVIEW In order to create a photo essay, you will need to use an application that allows you to combine, edit, and adjust photos and audio and export the resulting …
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These are downloadable apps that can synch content across multiple computers and devices. MarsEdit – blog management app for Mac (not free) Evernote – note management for Mac, Windows, web, …
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Flip4Mac plugin for QuickTime (so you can play wmv and wav files — Apple approved) QuickTime for Windows FLV Crunch – simple media converter
Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
It’s always a good idea to have more than one web browser on your computer, so that when something doesn’t work in one, you can try it in another. If …
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Need to share files, images, or videos with others, either in online albums or by embedding them into blog entries? Try one of these free hosting sites. DOCUMENT HOSTING Scribd …
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Multimedia applications on Mac and Windows computers don’t always make it easy to save or export files in a format that any computer can open, so if you find yourself …
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Although your Windows PC or Mac most likely already has some basic image, audio, and video editing applications installed, you might want to browse the relevant categories on these sites …
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Categories: Recommended Apps & Tools
All of these sites are free, but some have options for upgrading to a paid account for more features. BLOGS WordPress.com (by far the most popular free blogging site Tumblr …
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Tired of uploading user photos to your profiles on multiple sites? Many sites, including most blogs run by WordPress, will get a user photo from a single source: Gravatar. Log …
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