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Miami Writing and Technology Resources
Images
Typography
Sound
Video/Screenshots & Screencasts
Accessibility
Fair Use/Copyright/Creative Commons
Miami Writing and Technology Resources
- Miami Libraries Equipment Checkout- circulation desks at library locations across campus. The library offers equipment checkout to students; laptops, video cameras, flip cameras, audio recorders, tripods, microphones, etc.
- Center for Information Management- King Library rm. 112. Computer lab with both PCs and Macs; access to multimedia composing softwares; staff on duty to help with technical questions about multimedia composing.
- CIM Studio Rooms- King Library rm. 113 A, B, & C. Private work spaces available for 1-hour blocks of time; include hardware and software for podcasting and sound/video editing.
- Howe Writing Center- King Library (main lobby and various locations around campus). Provides consultations with students at any stage of the composing process on many types of projects (textual, digital, etc.).
Images
- PicMonkey: free online photo editor/design/collage app
- Pixlr: free online image editor; great alternative to Photoshop in case you don't have continual access to Photoshop.
- Pixlr Tutorials on YouTube
- Beginner's Pixlr Tutorial: Basics
- Pixlr Tutorial: Harry Potter Collage: This tutorial is particularly useful for learning how to cut images out, crop, and combine them together-- great for remixing and collage.
- Pixlr Tutorial: Add Layer Mask Tool: This tutorial will show you how to isolate a foreground from a background; how to alter the background of the image while keeping the foreground the same.
- Pixlr: Resizing Images/Layers
- Flickr Creative Commons: browse/search content by type of license
- Free Images: free access to images provides information about individual license agreements on each image
- Access Photoshop tutorials through Atomic Learning, accessed through http://miamioh.edu/atomiclearning. Log in using your Miami username/password. Select “Search” from the menu bar and type “Photoshop CS6.” Click on the tutorial titled “Photoshop CS6 Intro Training” (the one that’s 2h:21m:31s). Once there, watch the videos that are most relevant to your skill set for a comprehensive background on Photoshop.
- "How to Use Google Drawings:" This YouTube video will show you the basics about how to work with shapes, layers, colors, and font in Google Drawings.
- Add Images to Google Drawings
- How to Use Text in Google Drawings
- Piktochart: Infographic maker
Typography
- Font Squirrel: free fonts for commercial/personal use
- Da Font: free fonts; provides licensing information on each font
- How to Change/Add Fonts in GoogleDocs
- Font Installation Directions for Photoshop
Sound
- Audacity: free audio recording/editing software
- Audacity Help: technical support, FAQs, manuals, tutorials
- CIM Center's "How to Produce and Upload a Podcast"
- CCMixter: "a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses"
- Jamendo: free and legal access to music under Creative Common licenses
- Freesound.org: free and legal access to sound effects
- ConvertToAudio.com: allows you to convert a YouTube video to an .mp3 file
- The You MP3: allows you to convert a YouTube video to an .mp3 file
- Skype's list of call recording applications
- Subscribing to podcasts using iTunes
- Podkicker
Video/Screenshots & Screencasts
- Screencast-o-matic: free screen and webcam recorder
- Camtasia: screen recording and video editing; free 30-day trial. *Camtasia is available for use in the CIM lab (see above)
- Camtasia Tutorials for Mac
- Camtasia Tutorials for Windows
- KeepVid: download videos from YouTube
- How to Take a Screenshot on a PC
- How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac
Accessibility
Fair Use/Copyright/Creative Commons
- Creative Commons Search: "access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link."
- Code for Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video: Put out by the Center for Media & Social Impact. Provides information about best practices, common myths, and current news concerning fair use.
- "Learn About Copyright" on SoundCloud: provides information about what copyright is and how to avoid infringement.
- Daniel Richards and Kyle D. Stedman's Copyright & Writing