Tools

Collaboration

Google+

Social networking platform, not unlike Facebook, that works with other Google services and allows users to connect with and see what friends are doing. Users can create posts and share links or multimedia items with select groups (called Circles). The Hangouts feature allows group video chat.

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Collaboration

Clarify-it

Mac and Windows tool for taking multiple screenshots, annotating them, and combining them into a single document.

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Annotating

Greenshot

Windows tool for annotating, editing, and sharing screen shots and images.

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Visualization

Advene

The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily create comments and analyses of video documents, through the definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation into automatically-generated or user-written comment views (HTML documents). Annotations can also be used to modify the rendition of the audiovisual document, thus providing virtual montage, captioning, navigation... capabilities. Users can exchange their comments/analyses in the form of Advene packages, independently from the video itself. The Advene framework provides models and tools allowing to design and reuse annotations schemas; annotate video streams according to these schemas; generate and create Stream-Time Based (mainly video-centred) or User-Time Based (mainly text-centred) visualisations of the annotations. Schemas (annotation- and relation-types), annotations and relations, queries and views can be clustered and shared in units called packages. Hypervideo documents are generated when needed, both from packages (for annotation and view description) and DVDs (audiovisual streams).

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F4

F4 eases the transcription process of audio or video recordings and you can safe about 30% of your time. You can adjust the playback speed to your personal transcription speed. Further there is a foot pedal usable to control the playback. You can set automatically time marks, speaker change or text modules.

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Organizing

Zandy

Zandy provides users with access to their Zotero library through a simple interface. Users can browse and modify the items in their libraries, add new items, view attachments, take and edit item notes, search their libraries, and add webpages from the Android browser.

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Scanner for Zotero

Android app that scans the ISBN barcode on a book and pulls the bibliographic metadata into your Zotero library.

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NodeXL Network Graphs

From the website: NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs. With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel window. (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) The book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World is the most comprehensive source on NodeXL. Accompanying slides and datasets are available on the NodeXL Teaching Resources page. (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/documentation)

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Collaboration

Mediathread

Mediathread is an open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based multimedia content. It interoperates with a variety of image and video collections (such as YouTube, Flickr, library databases, and course libraries), enabling users to lift items out of these collections and into a scholarly analysis environment. In Mediathread, items can then be clipped, annotated, organized, and embedded into compositions and other written analysis.

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Organizing

Meaki

Meaki allows you to clip, organize and share web pages into a visually engaging Clipset. It is similar to other pinboard applications like Pinterest, but allows users to clip entire websites rather than just images and organize them in a sharable, visual collection. Meaki has a built in social component, clipsets are public and can be browsed by anyone. Meaki is a brower application. Just make an account on Meaki.com and put the “Bookmark Button” in your bookmarks toolbar. Once you come to a webpage you want to clip, click on the Meaki button, and it will guide through clipping and saving the page. Features: Simple and easy to use. Save webpages for later viewing purposes – never loose a website you love. Search other clippings and Clipsets on Meaki to find new and interesting websites. *NB At the time this review was written (Nov 10/14) the Meaki.com website was not online and no message about the future of the service was available.

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