Some Digital media tools with annotations
Popular Tools At The BGC
Omeka is an online templated virtual exhibition tool that is a collections based, web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Omeka How-To (Under Construction)
Prezi is an online presentation design tool that allows users to create classroom or online presentations. Prezi differs from other presentation tools like PowerPoint in that it does not use slides but rather a navigable virtual canvas. Prezi How-To (Under Construction)
Images/Image sharing
Flickr is an online video and image hosting site that lets its users upload, organize and share their media in a variety of ways.
Vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking site that not only lets you bookmark images, but lets you share the images with others. Images are organized with user-supplied tags.
Cooliris is a web browser plugin that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images.
Videos/Video Sharing
Youtube is an online video hosting site, letting users upload their own content and comment on that of other users. Videos are organized by user supplied tags, content, etc.
Like Youtube, Vimeo is an online video hosting site. A little less well-known, Vimeo has a cleaner, more streamlined interface.
Image/Video Annotation
VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments.
VideoANT is a Video Annotation tool that allows users to combine web-based video with text-based annotation.
Presentations
Slideshare allows users to upload, view, comment, and share slideshows created with presentation programs.
Cozimo is an online presentation sharing and management tool. Cozimo allows users to collaborate on visual media.
Timelines
Dipity is a web-hosted Timeline creation tool.
Timeline - The Simile Project TImeline Widget is an open-source timeline tool that allows users to create an interactive timeline and lets users organize and track temporal data visually.
Other
Zotero is a bibliography tool in the form of a Firefox plugin from CHNM. Zotero is a free, open source tool with features like bibliographic management and organization, online citation capture, group collaboration and citation searching.
Evernote note management software is designed to capture and organize notes, media, images and more. Notes can be captured and uploaded to Evernote via cell phone, computer and internet.
Tool Hubs
Below are a few digital media centers that provide a variety of robust tools (some mentioned above)
- Simile - The Simile project has created a suite of tools for information management and display developed out of MIT.
- Center for History and New Media - CHNM has created a number of powerful tools (most notably Zotero and Omeka) which have changed the way technology has been integrated through the academic world.
Social Media
For information on more comprehensive solutions for different types of content or creating social networks visit the Content Management and Social Media Tools page
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