Creation Tools
- PressBooks Create e-books, typeset PDFs, and web books. Choose from professionally designed book themes. Free and priced options.
- SoftChalk Can be used to create interactive tutorials and mash up text/media.
- Screencast-o-matic Record and edit videos on your computer.
- Google Drive Create web-hosted documents, presentations, forms etc. Each document can be linked to from Sakai. Useful for using the same material for multiple classes.
- Pixlr Online photo editor and drawing tool. Requires Flash.
- See more OER authoring tools (SUNY Empire State College)
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Collaborative Writing Tools
A plugin for WordPress, CommentPress allows post-publication marginalia on a piece of writing. This tool can be used to collect feedback on work. Find out more about the tool and see a demo here.
Etherpad is an open source online editor that supports collaborative editing in real time.
