Free Tools and Resources for Multimedia Composition

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"Browsing" the web is certainly different from reading a book, and so browsing the web would seem to be a long way from actually composing. However, tabbed browsing can accelerate your browsing into percussive activity that can lead to writing, if you let wiki into your plan. Because, once you get rrrrrrollllllin' with tabbed browsing, you're ready to roll on into the wiki, where you can click the "edit" button or "new page" button. Go ahead, open up a wiki window, to the infinite! Do this--slow down, and write it down. Dissolve all this tabbed energy. Just place your cursor on the wiki and type a little bit about all you've seen and heard and felt on your journey. Tabbed browsing is crucial in composition 1101, folks, so before you experiment with the online tools and resources listed on this page, and before you go any further in your wiki itinerary, be certain to install Firefox and familiarize yourself with tabbed browsing. Grab yer cheatsheet, add your addons!

Vocabulary

composing together requires a shared set of terms

mechanics and style

Firefox Addons

Open Office and Neo Office - free open source software that replaces Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.

koffice also like Microsoft Word, but free

Craig Waddell's free prose mechanics this free grammar guide and style manual covers the basics

Elements of Style, a classic

nonlinear adding machine got writer's block? Chisel it up, find your "un-voice"

Widget Library! this "scriptorium" shares (java) scripts for making our wiki sizzle. F'shizzle!

Textism quick textile html converter. Very cool!

free expertise the official pbwiki community forum

wiki formatting

zamzar free online file format conversion

zoho free online (no downloading necessary) word processing, spreadsheets, and more

compose with sound

pandora the "music genome project"

Freesound- just what it says...and so much more. Tab out a sound, play, play, play

soundtransit collaborative online field recording and phonography

CCMixter a place to share and remix sonic productions.

Audacity - free and open source multi-platform audio editing and recording software. Great for making compressed (i.e. podcast-able) .ogg and .mp3 files.

legaltorrents creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved music, movies, and books. Explore the issues on a tight budget.

Odeo and podomatic - it's so easy to host podcasts at these sites.

phlow magazine freeculture! a hub for netlabels, netaudio artists, mp3s galore

jahtari streaming mixtapes