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Virginia Tech Resources
- Lynda.com (Free software tutorials)
- InnovationSpace
- Student Software Distribution
- VT Google Apps Portal
Image Editing Software
- Pixlr (free web-based image editor)
- GIMP (free multiplatform image editing software)
- Awesome Screenshot (browser plugin for annotating screenshots)
- Skitch (image annotation tool for Windows, Mac, and iOS)
Public Domain and Creative Commons Images
- Wikipedia’s list of public domain image resources
- Creative Commons image search
- Unsplash
- stock.xchng
- Library of Congress American Memory project
- Wikimedia Commons
- Google Advanced Image Search
Video
- Turn a PowerPoint Presentation into a Video (Windows)
- Save a PowerPoint Presentation as a Movie File (Mac)
- Saving a PowerPoint for Mac Presentation as a QuickTime Movie (Older Mac version of PowerPoint)
- Windows Movie Maker (relatively easy to use, but it can be buggy; several different versions available; should be free for all Windows users)
- iMovie (relatively easy to use, but I recommend keeping your project on a single computer the whole time; to move your project, follow these instructions; costs $15, but it may have been pre-installed on your Mac)
- YouTube Video Editor (web-based video editor; free and publishes directly to your YouTube account; lacks some advanced features)
- WeVideo (web-based video editor; looks very promising; free version should be sufficient for our purposes)
- Loopster (web-based video editor; free one-month membership)
- Animoto (web-based video editor; lots of pre-designed templates; 14-day free trial)
- Stupeflix (web-based video editor; easy to use, but not very powerful)
- Prelinger Archive of public domain video clips
- Creative Commons video search
- YouTube’s recommendations for resolutions and bitrates
Audio
- Audacity
- Creative Commons’ featured list of sites that offer “legal music for videos”
- Free Music Archive
- Freesound
- Sound Cloud’s archive of tracks with Creative Commons licenses
- 7 Sources of Creative Commons Audio For Podcasts
Sample Video Narratives
- “What You Wanted,” by Genevieve Critel
- “One More Step — Or Why I Don’t Do Stuff Sometimes,” by Steven Hopkins
- “Ironing,” by Ryan Trauman
- “Rhetoric, Christmas Cards, and Infertility: A Season of Silence,” by Kristin L. Arola
- “High Voltage Cable Inspection,” by simonjz05
- “Holy Cow Lisa,” by Bianca Giaever
- “Home Movies,” by Dana Atchley
- A collection of video narratives on Vimeo.
- YouTube channel for The Center for Digital Storytelling
Color
- Adobe Color (for developing color schemes)
- Color Sphere (another tool for developing color schemes)
- Paletton (another tool for developing color schemes)
- 0 to 255 (for finding variations on a specific color)
- Color Palette Generator (creates a color scheme by extracting colors from a photograph)