Ready to be a content creator? Check out our favorite tools for digital creation. We have handouts, worksheets, and recommendations to help you tell your story: whether it's your professional portfolio, multimedia production, or making your data come to life.
Portfolios
Personal Branding Handout
An online portfolio gives you the ability to present a myriad of talents and showcase your range of skills. However, in order to best appeal to employers and tell your story effectively, you'll need to make an added effort to develop consistency among all of the work and information you share on your portfolio. Having a consistent personal brand ties all of your professional content together: your resume, cover letter, business card, LinkedIn, etc.
Not sure which web builder is right for you? Take a look into the pros and cons of Wix and Weebly. We consider how much time you have, how user friendly you want the builder to be, and what sort of content you're planning on displaying.
Getting Started with Weebly
Have you decided that Weebly is the site for you? Awesome, let’s get started! Check out this handout for an overview of the basics of Weebly. Learn how to navigate, how to add subpages, how to link out to external websites or documents and much more!
Getting Started with Wix
Want to use Wix to build your portfolio? Great choice, now let us help you get started! This handout willl provide you with exactly what you need to know. Learn how to navigate Wix, how to incorporate creative content, how to create a visually appealing site and much more!
Usability Testing Worksheet
Finished with your portfolio? Conduct a usability test to be sure! This handout will help you determine the ease of use of your website. It will also help you check to make sure you have included key information on your portfolio.
Digital Storytelling
Getting Started with Storify
Storify helps you to aggregate and organize multimedia content, especially social media posts, from all over the web to create a cohesive story or timeline. Storify works best for presenting contemporary topics, social media conversations, and information from varied sources. Storify works best for presenting contemporary topics, social media conversations, and information from varied sources
Getting Started with Atavist
Simple composition templates and effective design tools. Add text and drag in different multimedia samples that culminate into a story.
Atavist Video: Set Up & Basics
This video walks you through the basic customization options in Atavist for title pages, layout options, section breaks, descriptions and navigation.
Created by our Media Fellow Kendall Gilman for her WRTC 103 course..
Atavist Video: Adding Text and Images
Ready to start adding content to your digital story? This video showcases best strategies for incorporating text and images.
Created by DigiComm Media Fellow Kendall Gilman for her WRTC 103 course.
Content Creation Tools
This online platform allows you to layers information (titles, text, images, videos, and links) on top of a geographic map. This is a great tool to tell stories using locations of a series of events.
Create interactive timelines online using a Google spreadsheet. You can incorporate videos, images, and audio files to tell a chronological story.
Embed the final product into a website or blog. Note: you can't customize colors & styles without basic HTML knowledge.
Silk is a web-based platform that enables users to easily turn data into interactive visualizations that tell a story. You can input datasets from websites, Excel, and Google Sheets. Create a “Silk” website for your data visualization with added images, charts, videos, and other multimedia elements. Share or embed creations on social media, websites, or blogs.
Graphiq's mission is to "drastically simplify the process of obtaining the world's knowledge" by turning "complicated data into vivid and contextually-rich visualizations and knowledge products." Each can be embedded in a digital story or website to add data, research, and credibility. Embedded graphs are dynamic and customizable.
