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For your final project, you will be sharing your complex issue in your selected media.  This section highlights suggested tools and resources for creating podcasts, videos, or other designs and media.  In addition, there are sections on Creative Commons to incorporate pictures, video, or music within appropriate guidelines and hosting the media that has been created.  

As you are working on your final project, you may need to incorporate or supplement with other photos, videos or music to effectively tell your story.  Since this is an educational project, Fair Use is in practice when incorporating material under copyright.  Another option would be to use materials under Creative Commons which have clear licensing designations (attribution, public domain, or share alike).  

Below is a listing of Podcasting tools, select one that will work best for you.  You will need to upload the finished podcast to ASU Media Plus (see Hosting your content for more information.)

• Adobe Express

  Adobe Express is a simple web based tool with easy to use design and ready made templates for social media posts, videos and presentations.

  • ASU offers students free access to an Adobe Express account to create video or social media posts.  Students sign up for a student account here. Faculty and staff information and request form can be found here.  Once you have set up your account, you can download and install the app on your computer.  
• Adobe Creative Cloud

  Adobe Creative Cloud is a more robust professional tool for design, video editing and publishing.

  • ASU students request free access to Adobe Creative Cloud by completing the ASU Student Adobe Creative Cloud Account Request form to verify eligibility.
• Audacity

  “Audacity is the world’s most popular free software for recording and editing audio. So if you're producing music, a podcast, or just playing around with audio, Audacity is for you.”

• Canva

  “Canva makes it easy to create professional designs and to share or print them.” - create social media posts

• Garage Band

  “GarageBand ... makes it incredibly simple to play, record, and share your music, no matter where you are. Tap into a wide range of instruments from around the world. And with the ever-expanding Sound Library, you can browse and download from a massive collection of free sounds, loops, and samples created by some of the biggest producers in the world.” Apple product.

• Adobe Express

  Adobe Express is a simple web based tool with easy to use design and ready made templates for social media posts, videos and presentations.

  • ASU offers students free access to an Adobe Express account to create video or social media posts.  Students sign up for a student account here. Faculty and staff information and request form can be found here.  Once you have set up your account, you can download and install the app on your computer.  
• Adobe Creative Cloud

  Adobe Creative Cloud is a more robust professional tool for design, video editing and publishing.

  • ASU students request free access to Adobe Creative Cloud by completing the ASU Student Adobe Creative Cloud Account Request form to verify eligibility.
• Audacity

  “Audacity is the world’s most popular free software for recording and editing audio. So if you're producing music, a podcast, or just playing around with audio, Audacity is for you.”

• Canva

  “Canva makes it easy to create professional designs and to share or print them.” - create social media posts

• Garage Band

  “GarageBand ... makes it incredibly simple to play, record, and share your music, no matter where you are. Tap into a wide range of instruments from around the world. And with the ever-expanding Sound Library, you can browse and download from a massive collection of free sounds, loops, and samples created by some of the biggest producers in the world.” Apple product.

Below is a listing of video creation tools, select one that will work best for you.  You will need to upload the finished podcast to ASU Media Plus (see Hosting your content for more information.)

• Adobe Express

  Adobe Express is a simple web based tool with easy to use design and ready made templates for social media posts, videos and presentations.

  • ASU offers students free access to an Adobe Express account to create video or social media posts.  Students sign up for a student account here. Faculty and staff information and request form can be found here.  Once you have set up your account, you can download and install the app on your computer.  
• Adobe Creative Cloud

  Adobe Creative Cloud is a more robust professional tool for design, video editing and publishing.

  • ASU students request free access to Adobe Creative Cloud by completing the ASU Student Adobe Creative Cloud Account Request form to verify eligibility.
• Canva

  “Canva makes it easy to create professional designs and to share or print them.” - create social media posts

• IMovie

  “With iMovie, it’s never been easier to create memorable, cinema-quality videos and let your imagination run wild. Edit videos on the fly or explore iMovie on your Mac. Design your masterpiece from scratch or get help shaping your story with the new Magic Movie and Storyboards on iPhone or iPad.”

• Zoom

  Use Zoom to record your presentation. Use share links provided for a limited time or upload to ASU Media Plus to share.

• Screen Pal

  Capture and edit presentations as embeddable videos. ASU offers access to faculty, staff and students. Resulting videos can be uploaded to ASU Media Plus for sharing. Screen Pal also generates transcript files to upload to ASU MediaPlus. Verify content prior to uploading to MediaPlus.

• Powerpoint

  You can use powerpoint to create a video and upload to ASU Media Plus to share.

• Adobe Express

  Adobe Express is a simple web based tool with easy to use design and ready made templates for social media posts, videos and presentations.

  • ASU offers students free access to an Adobe Express account to create video or social media posts.  Students sign up for a student account here. Faculty and staff information and request form can be found here.  Once you have set up your account, you can download and install the app on your computer.  
• Adobe Creative Cloud

  Adobe Creative Cloud is a more robust professional tool for design, video editing and publishing.

  • ASU students request free access to Adobe Creative Cloud by completing the ASU Student Adobe Creative Cloud Account Request form to verify eligibility.

• Podcasting Resources - Podcasting Resources - Research Guides at Emory University Libraries

• Home and Remote Recording - Podcasting and Audio Storytelling - Research Guides at University of Michigan Library

• Creating Videos - Creating Videos - LibGuides at North Carolina Wesleyan University

• Your Phone or iPad - Creating Video Projects - Research Guides at Cal Poly Humboldt