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: Download Comparable: Google Slides, Prezi, Powerpoint, Sway Keynote is slide based presentation software designed by Apple, Inc for MacOS computers and iOS devices. Keynote offers a similar feature set as Microsoft PowerPoint, but it differs stylistically by using a different set of transitions, themes, fonts, animations, and backgrounds. Keynote is available for free with any computer running … Read more
Availability: Download Comparable: Aperture, iPhoto, Picasa Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photo editing and management computer program developed by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. Via a single user interface, it allows the viewing, management, and editing of a large number of digital images. Lightroom and Photoshop share many of the same photo editing capabilities but with very different … Read more
Availability: Free Download Comparable: Magic is a very large scale integration layout tool. The main difference between Magic and other VLSI design tools is its use of “corner-stitched” geometry, in which all layout is represented as a stack of planes, and each plane consists entirely of “tiles” (rectangles). The tiles must cover the entire plane. … Read more