Google My Maps : With Google My Maps, you can create custom maps to share and publish online. You can add multiple layers of locations, directions, photos and images. Data can also be imported and mapped. FREE.
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Historypin
Historypin : A crowdsourced collection of photographs, documents, sounds, and moving images that are geo-located. FREE.
StoryMapJS
StoryMapJS: Easily create stunning, embeddable, multimedia story maps with this free tool. You can use the default map, or create your own image map. Here’s an example:
JuxtaposeJS
JuxtaposeJS: create frame comparisons by using a slider and two images, as this example:
CartoDB’s Odyssey
CartoDB’s Odyssey: create interactive, map-driven stories in a simple sandbox, and embed the final product anywhere. Combine your text with Odyssey’s library , and explore templates, actions and behaviors directly on the sandbox prior to publishing. See an example.
Pixton
Pixton: An online tool which allows drag-and-drop creation of storyboards and comics. Allows for collaboration and available on both Android and iOS. Requires a free account. FREE.
NowComment
NowComment: Free web app for digitally annotating online documents in a “social context,” that is, allowing other students to read and add to each other’s annotations. Inline annotations on NowComment appear on a 2-pane interface, alongside the respectively annotated parts of the text, enabling contextualized reading and analysis.
NowComment annotates html and Microsoft Word documents, but PDF upload is not yet very reliable.
With NowComment you can create class groups and subgroups, sort comments through a variety of ways, and annotate using text, image, audio, and video. Students are also able to create and share their own documents without instructor’s interference.
Skype
Skype: stable group video and/or audio calls with the maximum capacity of 25 individuals. FREE software installation and registration required. Mobile app available.
VLC
VLC: open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays virtually any multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Can do media conversion and streaming. See how to use VLC as a screencast tool. FREE.
Life
Life: an alternative, more static, browser-based platform for creating timelines. Follow instructions on how to build in the README.md. Requires a free Github Pages account. FREE