Desktop Publishing
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Traditional Desktop Publishing Apps
Issuu Allows you to publish books, newsletters, and magazines to a professional looking page turn interface that is iPad and iPod compatible. Lets you distribute your writing to a world wide audience. Scribd Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. There are all sorts of other features that make it easy and fun to publish, convert, embed, analyze, and read documents. Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web. dotEPUB Allows you to convert the content of a webpage into an ePub format to read on your tablet, phone, or other ereader device. dotEPUB can be used as a browser bookmarklet in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. formatpixel Flash based WYSIWYG layout editor for creating your own page based presentations . Free version allows for projects under 512k in storage size Project Rome Amazing all-in one content creation and publishing web app. Sadly Adobe has stopped development. Smore A simple one-step app that lets you create, save, and publish beautiful online flyers within seconds. SimpleBooklet SimpleBooklet allows you to easily create your own compelling web based projects, walkthroughs, presentations, and class reports that you can post on your class website, blog, social network or just share directly from simplebooklet.com. Mixbook Online digital scrapbooking tool. Mixbook’s editor is the most customizable and flexible photo book application. DoYouBuzz Online resume maker JobSpice Easy-to-use, intuitive online tool for creating a resume. Changing styles, managing different resumes for different employers, and creating web-based and PDF versions takes only a few clicks. Resumonk Lets you easily create resumes. It’s one of the easiest tools out there — students can quickly make a PDF. Infographics - Data Visualizations Good Infographics Information graphics, or infographics, are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. Gapminder Converts boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. Watch the video to the right given by Gapminder founder Hans Rosling as he vividly explains the importance of data and its interpretation. Many Eyes Data visualisation tools from IBM. Site allows users to upload data and then produce graphic representations for others to view and comment upon. E-Learning Examples Gallery of interactive graphics from corporate elearning to multimedia journalism Visual.ly Community for exploring, sharing, creating, and promoting data visualizations Vizualize.Me Create a infographic style resume Infogr.am Interactive charts tools and Infographics easel.ly Drag and Drop pre-designed themes and vector assets onto your canvas for easy creation and customization of rich infographics. Scale of the Universe Lets you experience the known Universe in proportion - from the smallest sub-atomic particles to the size of the entire universe. Awe-inspiring animation that definitely puts things into perspective. Mashups - Online Curation and Aggregation Tools Glogster Online poster maker Montage Takes virtually any topic or keyword that you enter and creates a Web page filled with articles and photographs grabbed from news sites, Twitter, YouTube, and a variety of other sources. You can customize your page with different layouts and change each section of the page to point to specific sources of information. When you're done, you can save your page and publish it or share it with other people. MiddleSpot A mashup tool you can use to collect webpages, images, music, videos, web widgets, files, documents, code, and more in one central spot. You can add, annotate, cluster, layer, pan, resize, tweet, embed and share the content you've collected. Bundlr A tool for online curation that does it all – clipping, aggregation and sharing web content. Click here to view a Sample Bundlr Scoop.it! Often described as Tumblr without the blog. It offers users the opportunity to “be the curator of your favorite topic” and suggests that visitors use the site to “create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant social media streams. Publish it to people sharing the same interest.” ifttt If this, then that. It allows anyone to set up a chain of conditional actions between a wide variety of web services, like "If I post a photo to Flickr, save it to my Dropbox." it's a great example of a whole paradigm of DIY mashups. As Blogger and WordPress were to self-publishing and YouTube was to video publishing, so ifttt could be to working with interlinked web applications for everyday people. Tag Clouds Tag Cloud Generator Creates Tag clouds or word clouds to nicely visualize the different links on a website. Tagxedo Tagxedo is a Interactive Wordle (Word Puzzle) Creator made in Silverlight. The twist is that you can upload images for the word cloud to morph around. Tagul Hyperlinked word clouds. Very similar to Wordle - you create word clouds the difference for this site is all words in your cloud are hyperlinked to a google search. |
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