Website Building Tips

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Online Tools 

Image Editing

• FotoFlexer (http://fotoflexer.com/)

• Adobe Photoshop Express (http://www.photoshop.com/tools)

• Pixlr (http://www.pixlr.com/)

Tube Chop  http://www.tubechop.com/

. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ (It's an add-on to Mozilla Firefox ONLY and it allows the user to download the video file from the website. This allows the students to download the file they see on other websites and cut them in editing software like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker or similar programs. Then can then upload their clipped media to websites and cite them appropriately.)

Virtual Interviews

• Skype (http://www.skype.com)

• Google Voice (http://www.google.com/voice)

Rolling Transcriptions of Interviews of Other Unintelligible Audio

• http://www.widgetbox.com/widgets/

Document Sharing

• Google Docs (www.docs.google.com)

Audio Recording and Editing

• Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

• KeepVid (http://keepvid.com/)

• Realplayer (www.real.com)

YouTube Video Downloader  • KeepVid (http://keepvid.com/)

(Student tip: If you find sources on YouTube or Google Images, go to the original URL if possible then download from there. It is better in the bibliography than “YouTube”)

Notes and Citation Managers

• Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/)

• Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/)

• EasyBib (http://www.easybib.com/)

Turabian style is also known as CMS or “Chicago” style; though the preferred method of citation, MLA is accepted as well