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<Multimodality: Image, Video, Audio>

IMAGES

Editing
Splashup: http://www.splashup.com/
Picnik: http://www.picnik.com/ (Nicole's geek project!)
Picture2life: http://www.picture2life.com/
Preloadr: http://www.preloadr.com/
Pixenate: http://pixenate.com/
Snipshot: http://snipshot.com/
Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/--free download, almost exactly like photoshop

Collections: Photos to Use
http://www.pdphoto.org/ --Public domain photos
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page --Wikimedia Commons, shared media
http://www.morguefile.com/ --free stock photos
http://www.sxc.hu/--free stock photos (I use this site often)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html --Library of Congress, American Memories photos, not copyright free
http://www.bsu.edu/library/images/--many more photo collections are linked here

Sharing (There are MANY of these. Two of the best are listed.)
Flickr
Photobucket

Making Screenshots
Screenshots: www.jing.com (Nikki's geek project!)
Screenshots with annotations, skitch: http://plasq.com/skitch

Teaching with Images Sites
http://www.bsu.edu/library/article/0,,14704--,00.html
http://www.photovoice.com/index.html
http://www.indivisible.org/home.htm

Fun with Photos
Make giant posters: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Make fake concert tickets to pretend you were there: http://www.says-it.com/concertticket/index.php
Make fake newspaper stories: http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Make fake motivation pics: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php
So many fun things your head will spin: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/



VIDEO


Editing/Creating
Already on your computer: PCs=MovieMaker, Macs=iMovie
motionbox.com--video sharing with some editing possible
jumpcut.com--web-based video editor
http://jaycut.com/--web-based video editor
http://gorillaspot.com/--editing of their content only?
http://www.kaltura.com/--make videos together, collaborative editing
http://graffiti.vidavee.com/--annotating, editing already created videos (good for responding to students' videos?)
http://www.muveemix.com/--make quick movies for your blog

Sharing
Youtube.com
Google video
Yahoo video
Photobucket.com
http://www.vimeo.com/--sharing HD videos
http://www.bigthink.com/--a guided video sharing site
http://www.ourmedia.org/--video sharing & more

Collections

Other Video Tools
jing.com--screen capture (Nikki's geek project!)
http://keepvid.com/--save videos from any site
http://www.ustream.tv/--broadcast your own tv channel


AUDIO

Editing

Audacity--Free download, very popular audio editor
wildvoice.com--free download, make a podcast

Sharing
odeo.com

Collections
http://www.incompetech.com/: royalty-free music

Other
Voice to text via your phone: http://www.jott.com/
Music you'll like: pandora



EVERYTHING
http://www.archive.org/index.php
http://www.ourmedia.org/

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