Image & Video Tools

  • Picasa: Upload, caption, organize and share your images. Requires a Google account.
  • Flickr: Upload, caption, organize and share your images. Requires a Flickr account
  • Voicethread: Online resource transforms media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting.; an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways – using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) – and share them with anyone they wish. Requires a voicethread account.
  • Prezi: Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides.
  • Jing: Screen shot and video capture tool from Techsmith and Camtasia.
  • Realnetworks: Capture or create compressed video clips (Resulting files require RealPlayer.)  Free 30 day trials available.
  • MovieMaker: Comes with Windows XP and Vista.  Set up a slide show; add narration or music.
  • NCH Software: Capture video from your web camera.
  • Dotsub: Allows you to add subtitles to your video. Requires a DOTsub account.
  • Powerbullet Presenter: A small, simple, and free program for creating presentations in the FlashTMformat.
  • MindMeister: Mind mapping tool
  • Wordle: A tool for creating “word clouds” that emphasize given words within a source text.
  • Tagxedo: Free online Silverlight mashup art using “word clouds.”
  • Zamzar: Online tool to convert almost any file type to another file type.