Blogger
- create your own online blog now using this web-based software. Just create an account, name your blog, and choose a template. You can post graphics, publish your thoughts and invite others to do the same.
Free Blog Templates
- colorful, attractive free templates, created to use with Blogger.
Blog Guide
- a free 80 page thorough Guide Book to Blogging in an effective and professional manner.
Facebook
A web-based social utility that allows users to create on-line communities, video and file repositories, share campaigns and causes, and join other networks that relate to similar topics.
DTP: BOOKLETS, BROCHURES, FLYERS, NEWSLETTERS
Books and Booklet Templates
- free pdf book and booklet templates to download to help you to plan an educational or informative booklet for teaching and sharing.
Newsletter and Brochure Templates
- free brochure and newsletter templates from Xerox in Word format. (also cards, calendar, postcard templates).
Scribus - Desktop Publishing
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Campsite - Open Source Newspaper/Magazine Software for Web Publishing Campsite is a web publishing system that can bring your newspaper or magazine content to the online world. It is the only open-source system designed to work in the same style of newspapers and magazines - for example, with multiple journalists, editor review, issue publishing, and subscription management.
GENERAL
The Free Site
- good place to find free photographs, images, fonts, etc.
PagePlus SE - Free Desktop Publishing Software
- freeware software that is easy to use, with preset document layouts, automated templates, nice colour schemes and artistic effects for creating various documents. Free Templates for various projects are also available from this site.
Microsoft Office Templates
- lots of templates to use with Microsoft Office, including brochures, flyers, booklets, Powerpoint, Excel, Word.
Licium’s Technology Resources
- a list of products, services, resources, articles, a newsletter related to media production.
Snap Files
- an extensive list of freeware Multimedia related software downloads. You could literally spend hours on this site - there is tons of software for many different types of applications.
Freeware.com
Another motherlode of free software, readily downloaded for a number of different applications including graphics, internet, multimedia, desktop publishing.
FreewareFiles.com
Also provides links and downloads to many free software programs including games, internet tools, audio and video, security, graphics and design, organizational and business, clipart, and other educational and health related applications.
GRAPHICS and 3D IMAGES CREATION, CLIPART
3D Graphic Tools
- list of freeware 3D graphic tools to help you create realistic graphics. Some learning curve for most.
HP Free Presentation Images
- some really nice images to use in your project - business people, children and family, sports and recreation, nature and landscapes, conceptual, technology, cityscapes, industrial. Other templates available here too.
Free Clipart List of Links
- my list of usable free clip art for your media production - medical, people, activities, etc.
DrawPlus 4
Free graphic design and vector drawing software, simple to use, professional quality results.
3DPlus 2
- free 3D Animation and Modeling Software, simple to use, powerful, professional looking.
PhotoPlus 6
- free image and photo editing software, that lets you create, manipulate, and enhance photos, graphics, and web animations.
GIMP Graphics Program
- freeware graphics editor and image manipulation software that rivals Adobe Photoshop for ability, quality and complexity.
Smart Draw
- free graphic software for drawing flowcharts, forms, floor plans, calendars, organizational charts, project charts, software designs, teaching materials, concept maps, flyers, scrapbooks, and more.
Paint.net
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
Blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It has developed into a robust program that allows users to engage in 3D graphics modeling, animation, rendering, post production, interactive creation and playback.
FLASH
Flash Professional CS
Free demo copy of the Adobe professional industry-standard animation tool available. Steep learning curve.
Flash Kit Loops
- great resource for sound loops for background repeated music in Flash and other multimedia presentations.
Fotana Photo Album
- freeware to create online photo albums and galleries. Easy to use.
Free Layouts
- offers generators for creating Flash elements, web pages, scripts, graphic navigation bars, templates.
Flash Animation Tools
- freeware, easy to use tools to create Flash like animated creations.
SwishZone.com
Excellent user-friendly Flash-like programs that can be downloaded for 30 days free, including SwishMax, SwishPix, SwishStudio2, SwishVideo. Students get a very generous discount with proof of student status even in Canada (Australian based company). Excellent programs for the serious learner and user!
JAlbum Photo Albums
- JAlbum is an easy to use open source album and gallery software to add a professional gallery to your web site. If you are looking for an easy to install album or gallery for your site, JALbum offers the perfect solution. A unique software, JAlbum is first downloaded to your computer where you add your images off-line, then the program helps you upload the completed gallery to your site through a built-in ftp function.
ClipFactory Slideshows
- freeware that helps you to create slideshow presentations with MP3 background music. Requires a downloadable viewer file for visitors to see your creation.
Diji Album Editor - shareware that helps you to combine photos and graphics, text, multimedia.
DigiBookShelf Photo Album
- free virtual photo album software that presents photos, sound and text in a virtual bookshelf interface.
Slide Show Movie Maker - freeware to create moving presentations from still jpg and gif graphics.
Real SlideShow Basic - freeware that allows you to combine audio, images to create media slide show.
POWERPOINT
Powerpoint Tutorials
- free tutorial to help you to create a true multimedia Powerpoint presentation. Offers text and streaming video instruction.
Powerpoint in the Classroom
- another helpful site with a detailed tutorial for getting the most of out of Powerpoint: slides, adding images and charts, adding motion and sound, timing and rehearsing.
Free Education Templates
- six pages (total of 116 templates) of lovely free education-focused Powerpoint templates to make your presentation shine!
HP Powerpoint Backgrounds
- unique free backgrounds to use with PPT presentations from Hewlett Packard. Some are really beautiful!
More Powerpoint Templates
- here are some more free Powerpoint templates with some nice examples of finished work. Note there are more links to other templates at the bottom of the page once
you click on this link.
Windows Movie Maker
You can easily create, edit, and share and build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web via Windows Media Player, e-mail, or CD. Using third-party software you can even take movies you've made and turn them into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.
CamStudio
is a great open source program that allows students to record audio and video files and convert them into streaming Flash movie (SWF) files for the Web.
Squeakland
Is another open source media authoring software that was created for even young children to use.
Audacity
Is an open source audio editor that lets students record audio from a microphone, line input, etc. and export the recording as MP3s, WAV, AIFF or other files.
Apple’s QuickTime
View and/or download multimedia player and displayer for audio, video, animation, graphics, text, music, virtual reality.
Real.com
- offers free and commercial products for audio, video and multimedia production and internet viewing.
Real Producer 10 Basic
- offers a free (more limited) and commercial version to create high quality audio and video productions for web use.
WavCentral.com
- an extensive collection of wav sound files for video, flash, web projects.
WindowsMedia.com
- offers downloads and guides to audio and video programs, clips, samples.
WEBSITE CREATION
Free Web Templates
- a few professional looking web templates for quickly designing a nice looking web site.