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: CS6 is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud Part of: Adobe Creative Suite Comparable: GIMP Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. Photoshop has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the terms “photoshopping” and “photoshop contest” were born. … Read more
Availability: Labs | Download Comparable: Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos. It includes touch up and basic editing tools, geo-tagging to tie a picture to a location, facial recognition to categorize and catalog photos by the people in them, backup capabilities to safeguard your photos, and … Read more
Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download Part of: Microsoft Office Suite Comparable: Google Apps, OpenOffice, Prezi, Sway, Keynote Microsoft Powerpoint is slide show presentation software. The user develops slides with text, graphics, charts, animations, videos, sounds, and other multimedia content to display during a presentation. The slides proceed in a linear fashion either at a timed pace or according … Read more