Technologies for teaching, learning and research
Design software focuses on the digital creation or re-creation of a thing or idea. Types of design range from print media, web site, computational, 3-dimensional, structural, simulation, and more. Simulation and modeling software is closely related and sometimes integrated with design software.
Visualization software includes applications that help visualize concepts, ideas, or scenarios. This includes diagramming, geographical visualization, molecular and structure visualization, graphical data representations, and some animation.
Also included in this category are applications used in presentations. This includes not only Powerpoint and powerpoint style presentations, but live polling software, presentation capture software, and web presentations as well. As well, applications used to create, edit, convert, or touch up digital images. Software ranges from photo editing, photo cataloging, graphic design, and diagramming. Finally there are applications used to edit web pages including code editors, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editors, and Content Management (CMS) systems that organize and manage web pages on a server.
Availability: UNCC Community Part of: Google Apps Comparable: Drupal, Project, WordPress Google Sites is a structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google Apps suite. The goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create a team-oriented site where multiple people can collaborate and share files. Google Apps can be … Read more
Availability: Faculty/Staff Part of: Google Apps Comparable: Keynote, OpenOffice, Powerpoint, Prezi, Sway Google Slides is a basic cloud-based presentation tool that can be accessed directly through any web browser. Presentations are automatically saved to Google’s servers (Google Drive), and a revision history is automatically kept so past edits may be viewed (although this only works for adjacent revisions, and there is … Read more
Availability: Free on web or iPad/iPhone App Comparable: Google Slides, Prezi, Powerpoint, Sway, Keynote Haiku Deck is a web or mobile app based presentation platform that focuses on simplistic imagery and text to compliment the speaker’s narration. The Haiku Deck philosophy is to make simplistic, beautiful, and fun presentations that highlight the speaker’s points without splitting the audience’s … Read more