INTEC 1111 Course Guide: Technology Tools

Enrich your stories with charts, maps, and tables.

Beautiful and easy data visualization and storytelling.

Beautiful templates and dynamic visualization: import your own data to begin crafting infographics. While only a handful of templates are free, the extensive customization can make it easy to create a unique visualization and story for your data.

RAWGraphs is an open source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone.

With this tool you can input text and it will output an analysis of the words utilized in the text.

Open data hosted by Amazon.

Data.gov is the United States government's open data website. It provides access to datasets published by agencies across the federal government. Data.gov is intended to provide access to government open data to the public, achieve agency missions, drive innovation, fuel economic activity, and uphold the ideals of an open and transparent government.

FiveThirtyEight is sharing the data and code behind some of their articles and graphics. They hope you’ll use it to check their work and to create stories and visualizations of your own.

A directory of open data from Google.

Data from ICPSR on the gamut of topics.

One must create an account to access these data sets, but they are open access to those with accounts.

Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners.

A list of datasets curated by the Tableau program to be used by anyone looking to create data visualizations.

Datasets hosted by UNICEF on a variety of topics.

Census data from 2020 and previously is available here for use.

Free and open access data about global development.

Data from the World Health Organization that is open to utilize.

An in-browser online tool to create citations.

A free tool to utilize to cite and store articles for your research.

A free tool to install to your computer to utilize in Microsoft Word, or in your browser to cite and store articles for citing later on.

Provides royalty-free music and sound effects for use in various projects.

An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.

A free stock photography and royalty-free stock media website. It is used for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage, and music, exclusively under the custom Pixabay license, which generally allows the free use of the material with some restrictions.

Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project.

A cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows.

This free, with premium features, software allows users to edit video and audio to create short films, as well as podcasts.

A web-based free video editing platform specifically with templates and user-friendly interface.

This film editing software boasts many features and is used widely in the industry. If you are not an Arts Major, you will not be able to access Final Cut Pro.

Free Photoshop alternative web-based photo editor that allows you to make basic adjustments such as vignettes, color correction, saturation, contrast, and frames.

Studio-quality recording, AI-powered editing, and seamless exporting – all in a single web-based platform.

Chrome's most trusted video-creation tool. Create, edit, and share videos in seconds.

Figma is a collaborative online environment to map, brainstorm, and elaborate on ideas and projects.

Annotate websites, eBooks, eJournal articles for a private or public collection.

Capture ideas at the speed of thought – using a mind map maker designed to help you focus on your ideas and remove all the distractions while mindmapping. Create unlimited mind maps for free, and store them in the cloud.

Miro is a collaborative workspace and is free for individual use with limited capabilities. It can also be used to brainstorm and organize notes.

Notion can be used to write syllabi, organize group projects, and develop an online portfolio.

Padlet acts similarly to Pinterest, where you can organize information into subject specific boards, but can be used for complex discussions and organization.

Trello is the flexible work management tool where teams can ideate plans, collaborate on projects, organize workflows, and track progress in a visual, productive, and rewarding way. From brainstorm to planning to execution, Trello manages the big milestones and the day-to-day tasks of working together and getting things done.

OneDrive is Microsoft’s online storage space that you can use to save, edit, and share your documents and other files.

PowerPoint is the presentation application in the Microsoft Office suite.

Word is the document processing application in the Microsoft Office suite.