Digital Tools

Top tools to support your success at NYIT. Sorted and organized.

Citation Management

  • Zotero – Gather and organize sources and share the results of your research.
  • Mendeley – Reference manager and academic social network.

Presentation

  • Jing – Record on-screen activity, edit and enhance your content, and share to viewers anywhere.
  • GoogleDocs Presentation – Create presentations and open existing ones. Share with others to edit together.
  • SlideShare – Upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenOffice presentations.

Writing

  • Blogger – A simple and quick way to get a blog up and running with your NYIT MyMail address.
  • Google Docs – A suite of collaboration applications.

Storage

  • Dropbox – File syncing service that lets you bring your docs, images and videos anywhere and share them.
  • Google Drive – Home to NYIT's Google productivity tools.

In-Class

  • Miro – Online collaborative whiteboard platform.

Audio/Video

  • Audacity – Multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
  • VoiceThread – Post media artifacts including images, videos, documents, and presentations, for community feedback.
  • YouTube – Create, upload and share video with your students using your NYIT username and password. Videos can be public, unlisted, or private.
  • Zoom – Video meeting service. It supports HD video, audio, chat, and screen-sharing for up to 25 participants at a time. Select "Login with Google" and enter your NYIT ID.

Social Bookmarking

  • Diigo – Collection and annotation of screenshots and pictures, and personal memos.

Faculty

  • PollEverywhere – Create multiple-choice, or open-ended polls. You can also use Poll Everywhere in distance learning classrooms, or fully online courses. Request a Pro account.
  • Turnitin – Internet based plagiarism detection service.