Tool Cool For School
Digital media tools to engage your students
Kelli Touchstone, CJE
What are you going to learn this session?
- alternative, visual storytelling tools
- infographic makers
- social media research and storytelling tools
- smartphone photo/video apps
- Collaboration/organization tools for projects
ASNE Reynold's Institute UT Austin Crew
SnapMap JS
Timeline JS
Juxtapose JS
StoryMap JS
TxXplorer
Protoptypes
Infographic makers
What's an infographic?
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system's ability to see patterns and trends.
Infogram
Pikotochart
Easel.ly
What is Periscope?
- From the Twitter team
- Live broadcast anything from your cell phone.
- Save a copy
- Privacy settings
Apps to improve cell phone videography
More Visual Storytelling Tools...
Storify
Curate posts from others on social media to create your own story about a topic.
Storytelling with Google Maps
Whether you're highlighting shelter locations during a flood or setting the scene in a broadcast story, a map can be a great vehicle to share information with your audience. Use this site to help you get started with Google's mapping tools—from interactive web maps to HD Google Earth animations for television.
Project Collaboration/organization Tools
Trello
Make boards, lists, tasks and share with others. For desktop and mobile. Trello is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone. Drop the lengthy email threads, out-of-date spreadsheets, no-longer-so-sticky notes, and clunky software for managing your projects. Trello lets you see everything about your project in a single glance.