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Storify

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Storify

Storify is part social, part archival, and part storage. Record events in a readable stream by dragging in any media live on the web and share.

SUPPORTS

PC, Mac, iPad

USES

You could use storify for multiple course projects. It is completely free, and could be used for research storage, organizing open-access articles, and even presentation. If your class is tweeting, you can drag and drop tweets into a storify thread and organize them, for example. You could do the same for news stories that you want to present for a History class, or a discovery timeline. You can feature photos, videos, articles, and pretty much any social media available.

PROS

  • easy to use and very versatile
  • exists on the cloud so you can’t accidentally delete anything AND it’s easily shareable
  • supports loads of social media and news organizations

CONS

  • cannot link to or embed pay-to-access articles like many from our library databases
  • storify stories can become too long and cumbersome to read
  • there is potential to manipulate and twist stories depending on how you arrange entries

EXAMPLES

Below is an example of a storify featuring tweets from and English 1101 course

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SIMILAR TO

  • tumblr

ALSO FEATURED IN

  • Mind Mapping
  • Presentation
  • Timelines

NEED TO KNOW

  • Free
  • Cloud Based
  • Subscribe
  • Social

Google Fusion

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Google Fusion

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ABOUT:

Google Fusion is one of the many ways you can make maps yourself to show data, group places, or combine places with their data. Google Fusion must be combined with Google Spreadsheets for it to work, and once you create a map with Fusion, it cannot be updated automatically. You must collect all your data before you begin. Once your data has been created and synced, inside Fusion, you can change your pointers, which data is displayed, and even group pointers to show how data flows. Google Fusion, like all Google Drive products, allows you to share, and build with others, but because Fusion requires training and practice, it may be difficult to remotely meet with someone to map using Fusion. Last, Fusion can be published and shared, but it does not go live to Google Maps because it does not readily export as a KML file.

Supported

PC, Mac, Android

Pros

  • Once your data is created, it is easy to make changes inside Fusion
  • The visualizations are fun, and exactly like what you see in a Google Map
  • Navigating the visuals of your data is as easy as it is on Maps

Cons

  • It is not easy to learn Fusion. You will want to use lynda.com through the Exchange, or take a class to learn the basics.
  • Fusion does not sync to your spreadsheet, should you need to make changes. You must upload or merge a whole new spreadsheet.
  • Fusion does not go live to Google Maps. Instead, you must learn to plot on Google Earth for this feature.

EXAMPLES

Below is a screenshot of a map a student made in Fusion of study spots in the Atlanta area. You can see she made the plot points green, instead of the classic red. And you can see the information she included on the selected spot.

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Uses

There are many reasons you might make a map in Fusion for a class. If you need to present information containing places for a history class, or to map where all the oak trees are located near campus for Biology, you can use Fusion to do this. If you have data to present on gas pricing in a certain area, or want to plot where people live that own drones, you can do this in Fusion.

Adobe Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop

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ABOUT:

Adobe Photoshop  is the industry standard for photo editing and manipulation. It is by far the most featured out of all the Adobe products, and contains tools to do just about everything with any type of image. Adobe provides wide-span use of Photoshop in mobile, tablet, and desktop PCs and Macs. A wide variety of tutorials can be found anywhere on the Internet to make presentation media seem professional, creative, and expressive.

Supported

PC, Mac, tablet, and smartphones

Pros

  • Edit any image of any type to produce quality images
  • Variety of features
  • Industry Standard
  • Integration with the rest of the Adobe Suite

Cons

  • Advanced techniques are somewhat hard to use
  • Pixels (Photoshop is raster software) are difficult to work with sometimes
  • There is a learning curve – you will likely need tutorials to learn Photoshop.

Examples

Tablet to PC integration is a very useful Photoshop feature for any inspiration to follow your way.

Uses

Most uses of Photoshop include assets for web design, image manipulation for flyers, posters, and other types of paper media, and fixing up images in post-processing for photography. Note that Adobe Lightroom is commonly used with Photoshop to achieve dynamic lighting situations, and is included in the purchase of the CC version of Photoshop from Adobe.