Create

Audio	Code	Design	Making	Multimedia
Play	Remix	Video	Visual	Writing

The items below are a mix of resources, suggestions, and suggested tools for democratizing composition. Some links go to commercial sites.

Remember: start where you are; go where you want to go; not all learners need every tool all the time.

Audio

• Audacity (Open source sound editor)
• Freesound
• Incompetech (Royalty free sound effects)
• iTalk (iOS recording app)
• Royalty-free Music Room
• Sound Bible
• Sound-effect.com
• Sound Jay (Royalty-free sound effects)
• Voicethread (Online story creator)

Code

• Alice (3D)
• Blockly (Visual programming)
• Git Hub (Code hosting)
• Hackasaurus (HTML)
• Hackety Hack! (Ruby)
• Heroku (Cloud-based code deployment)
• Hopscotch (Visual programming)
• Khan Academy Computer Science
• Kodu (Visual programming)
• NetLogo (Programmable modeling environment)
• Scratch (Visual programming)
• StarLogoTNG (3D simulation environment)
• Thimble (HMTL & CSS)

Design

• 3DTin
• Circuit Lab
• Tinkercad

Making

• LilyPad Arduino
• Make
• MaKey MaKey
• Roominate
• Recycle cardboard into canvases

Multimedia

• Cowbird
• Daily Create
• Mission: DS106
• Neatline

Play

• GameStar Mechanic
• Minecraft
• MinecraftEdu

Remix

• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Video

• Download Helper for Firefox
• Squared 5 mpeg stream clip
• Vialogues

Visual

• Airbrush
• Piq pixel art
• GIMP (Open source advanced image editor)
• Paint.NET (PC-based image editor) plus plug-ins
• Pencil (Open source 2D animation software)
• Pinta (Open source image editor)
• Stencil art
• SumoPaint (Online paint)

Writing

• Figment
• Storybird
• Youth Voices

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