Tech for Faculty: Animations/Data Visualization/Storytelling

Tired of the same old posters, tri-folds, blah, blah, blah...Move your students to Canvastera, and have them create posters and other visual presentations that are far beyond what can be done with poster board and glue sticks.

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages." Use avatars in your CMS to personalize your interactions with students, or have students create avatars for personal expression.

"Mixbook is the easy and fun way to make completely customizable photo books, cards, and calendars on the web – for free. With Mixbook, you aren’t limited to static pre-designed templates – our powerful design software gives you the freedom to lay out and design your creations to your heart’s content."

"Simple Booklet is a free service offering online multimedia booklet creation and publishing. To create a book using Simple Booklet just sign-up for a free account and click create. Select the layout template that suits your needs. To add content click anywhere on the blank canvas and a menu of options will appear. You can add text, images, audio files, videos, and links to each page of your booklet."

"Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages." Google now allows users to use their own data to create visual representations, such as charts and graphs.

Simple, clean, easy to use interface that allows for stories to be created and shared online.

An open-source tool for creating "choose-your-own-adventure" style stories.