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Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer - Apple Support
Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer - Apple Support
When installing Twine on a Mac, you may get a warning about it being an "unidentified developer." This is just Apple trying to restrict you from leaving their walled garden and using an open source program where they can't make any money. Follow these directions to change the security settings and install the program.
Imported from Diigo#tools#howto
·support.apple.com·
Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer - Apple Support
Tint and Shade Generator
Tint and Shade Generator
Provide hex codes for colors and get tints (lighter) and shades (darker) of that color. Useful for staying within a color scheme while still providing some variety
Imported from Diigo#tools#free
·maketintsandshades.com·
Tint and Shade Generator
VEED Online Video Editor
VEED Online Video Editor
I haven't tried this tool, but it looks like a decent tool for creating or subtitling a quick video with a free tool. The free version has limits in video length and only exports to 780p, but that might be enough for a quick portfolio sample. As a paid tool, I think most elearning folks would probably be better off paying a little more to get Camtasia instead.
Imported from Diigo#tools#free#video
·veed.io·
VEED Online Video Editor
Pose - Easy Character Guidelines by Gal Shir
Pose - Easy Character Guidelines by Gal Shir
App for creating poses for characters. These are just outlines, which you'd have to illustrate yourself in another app. Kevin Thorn demonstrated this as a way to create custom characters for scenarios, which you can pose in exactly the way you need. This is a browser-based app, currently $19.
Imported from Diigo#tools#images
·galshir.com·
Pose - Easy Character Guidelines by Gal Shir
VEED
VEED
This browser-based video editing tool is aimed at marketers for creating quick social media videos. They have a free account level which includes a watermark. This might be helpful to students or others looking for a way to create a quick sample for their portfolio without spending money.
Imported from Diigo#tools#video
·veed.io·
VEED
AnswerThePublic
AnswerThePublic
Answer the Public describes itself as a "Search listening tool for market, customer & content research." It's a way to see what search terms people enter about a particular topic or brand. If you're wondering what questions people have about a subject, this would give you data about what they search for online. You can only do one search per day for free; otherwise it's $99/month for unlimited searches (which only makes sense if you're doing a LOT of market research).
Imported from Diigo#marketing#tools#free
·answerthepublic.com·
AnswerThePublic
Avatar Maker - Create Your Own Avatar Online
Avatar Maker - Create Your Own Avatar Online
Free tool for creating avatars. I don't see licensing info, so it appears to be free to use. This only creates head shots, and the choices are limited. The SVG version of the download has editable layers, so you potentially could edit it for other expressions.
Imported from Diigo#tools#free#images
·avatarmaker.com·
Avatar Maker - Create Your Own Avatar Online
Rewordify.com | Understand what you read
Rewordify.com | Understand what you read
Paste difficult to understand text into the yellow text box, and this website will give you a simplified version. While this is intended for people learning English vocabulary (or teachers helping students), it might be helpful as an instructional designer. It doesn't do anything for absurdly long sentences (in fact, sometimes the simplified version is longer), but you could use this to take a first pass edit on complex SME language.
Imported from Diigo#writing#tools#free
·rewordify.com·
Rewordify.com | Understand what you read
Descript | Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts
Descript | Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts

This tool is geared mostly for podcast producers, but it might have some applications for elearning. When you record audio, it generates a transcript. If you want to edit out some text, you can edit it via the transcript rather than editing the wave forms.

The other interesting feature is "Overdub," which uses an AI generated synthetic voice based on the real voice to fill in changes. If you need to make minor edits in wording, you can use the synthetic voice rather than re-recording the sentence and replacing the audio. You can certainly hear the difference, even in their demo, but i bet for quick edits it would be good enough.

Imported from Diigo#audio#tools#podcast
·descript.com·
Descript | Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts
Open Broadcaster Software®️ | OBS
Open Broadcaster Software®️ | OBS
Open source tool for live mixing video streaming. You can put a text overlay on top of a video, for example. You can also set up different scenes in advance so you can transition between different combos. This also has an audio mixer so you can adjust the volume between a shared video and your own microphone (or other inputs). It's compatible with other platforms, so you can use it with Zoom or whatever you're currently using for video conferencing or streaming.
Imported from Diigo#video#tools#opensource#free
·obsproject.com·
Open Broadcaster Software®️ | OBS
Twiddla
Twiddla
Online whiteboard tool. This looks like it might be worth investigating for those running into limitations with their existing tools. No plugins or downloads needed.
Imported from Diigo#tools
·twiddla.com·
Twiddla