Subject and Course Guides: Open Educational Resources: Creating OER

Authoring Tools

Google Drive
Drive starts you with 15 GB of free Google storage, so you can keep pictures, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos – anything.
LibreOffice
An office suite with word processor, spreadsheet, slide show, drawing, and database tool. It is interoperable with MS office and can save documents as PDF.
OpenOffice
An office suite consisting of a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation/slideshow tool, and drawing tool. It is interoperable with Microsoft Office and can also save documents as PDF.
S5
A tool that creates HTML-based slideshows that display in a web browser.
DropBox
A service that lets you store and share your documents and files online.
slideshare
A service that lets you upload Powerpoint and Open Office slideshows and embed them in web sites.
PressBooks
Easily create ebooks, typeset PDFs, and webbooks. Choose from professionally designed book themes. One button publishing.

Dr. Pic
An online photo editor and drawing tool
Pixlr
Online photo editor and drawing tool. Requires Flash.
Greenshot
A screenshot tool that lets you resize and mark up the image.
inkscape
Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source.
MyPaint
A fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters.
Screenshot Captor
A screenshot tool that is a little more complicated to learn but has the most features of any screenshot editing tool out there.
Flickr
Upload, store, and share your images.
Picasa
Upload, edit, organize, store, and share your images.

Screenr
Allows you to record your voice and what's happening on your screen from the web.
CamStudio
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Jing
A lightweight tool that allows you to take screenshots and record your voice and what's happening on the screen. Five minute limit and do not have captions.
Vimeo
A strictly non-commercial, ad-free video hosting service. There is no maximum file-size, but you can only upload 500MG/week with the free account.
youtube
A place to upload and store videos for viewing.
MMConvert
Converts audio and video file formats.
WinFF
A tool that converts video files and is especially useful for converting them into a format that will play on mobile devices, media players, and websites like YouTube.
Screencast-o-matic
Easily record and edit videos on your computer screen.

Vocaroo
A free web application that allows you to record sound using a microphone.
Audacity
An application that allows you to record sound using a microphone or record sound from the other applications running on your computer. It also offers flexible, powerful sound file editing.
PodOmatic
A free online podcast hosting service that lets you upload your MP3 files and share them with others online.

WordPress
An easy way to create a free website or blog.
wikispaces
Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. We make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time.