Tools

Writing/Revision Platforms

• Eli Review (course code help531bluff )
• BBEdit (text editor note: there are lots of these for different systems. Make sure you get the one that is right for you.)

Organizing Small Group Meeting Times:

• Doodle
• WhenIsGood

Web Crawling and Scraping

• Scrapy (Free, open source Python)
• Helium Scraper (No trial, Windows)
• Outwit Hub (Free version, Windows/OSX)
• FMiner (Free Trial 15 Days, Windows/OSX)
• Mozenda (30 day trial)
• Visual Web Ripper (14 day trial, Windows)

Lexical Resources and APIs

• Wordnet
• WordNet-Affect
• General Inquirer
• Wiktionary dump

Text Processing

• Stanford CoreNLP
• Natural Language Toolkit (python)

Sitemap Generator:

• Lucidchart

Wireframing/Prototyping:

• Invision
• Sketch
• Axure
• Mockplus
• Balsamiq Mockups
• JustInMind
• Framer
• Adobe XD (Preview)
• Lucidchart

Blogging:

• WordPress
• Tumblr
• Medium
• Framer

Web:

• CSS Zen Garden
• Adblock for your browser

Citation/Documentation Style:

We will be using APA (American Psychiatric Association) style citation. Here are a few online resources for this style:

• The Purdue University Online Writing Lab
• APA styled paper example

Neat Tools:

• Libre Office Software: a free cross platform office suite
• Zoster Citation Software: Firefox plug in for use with citations

Curation:

• Diigo
• tweetdeck
• Flipboard

Rhetoric:

• The Galilean Library “What is Rhetoric?”
• Silva Rhetoricae Rhetorical Forest

Coding & Coding Tools:

• MIT Android App Inventor
• MIT’s Scratch: Kid friendly coding

Visualization Tools:

• Tweet Topic Explorer
• Wordle
• Word Tree generator
• RAWgraphs data visualization