On this page

• Free Software, Music and Video Sources and Downloads
• Tutorials 
   Software Tutorials, many specific to the types of projects assigned by Kent faculty
• MAC Information
   Software Tips and Tricks for MAC users
• Software Usability Information 
   Helps faculty and students choose the best and easiest to use software for multimodal compositions and presentations

SMS Tutorials

• Tutorial Links for English Composition Projects
  • A complete list of tutorials for Audio, Powerpoint, Digital Storytelling, Windows Movie Maker, PhotoStory, and Web projects
  • Publisher Tutorial for Denise Harrison's College Writing Courses
• Powerpoint Tutorials
  • Basic Powerpoint Tutorials (Links to MS and other resources)
  • Creating a Powerpoint Essay using Pictures, Narration and Music and some Custom Animation.  
  • Also: Saving PPT to a CD-R so that everything works!
• Web Page Construction Tutorials
  • Word
  • Publisher
  • Frontpage
  • Dreamweaver Tutorial for JMC's Media Writing Course
  • Uploading your website to the Kent Personal Server
  • Trouble-Shooting website problems
• Create an "Audio Essay" Tutorial
  • Record your voice 
  • Adding Music and Sound effects
  • Exporting your essay as an MP3 audio file to burn to a data or "music" CD. 
  • Links to free "Audacity" multitrack audio recording and editing software
• Digital Stories from Photographs or Video
  • Create Picture or Video Essays using Photo Story 3 and/or Windows Movie Maker and Audacity
• Digital Video Production Tutorials
  • SMS Policies and Procedures
  • How to shoot and edit video.
  • Digital Storytelling (Creating a "Video Essay" using still pictures, video, narration, music and effects) 
  • Also links to free video software
• Tutorials for Marilyn Seguin's Advanced Business Writing Course
  • Powerpoint, Publisher and Word's Reviewing Tools for Peer Editing Tutorials

Software Usability Information

Software applications commonly used for multimodal presentation projects describing their advantages, disadvantages, technical problems and fixes or work-arounds for these problems.  All of these links are to PDF documents which can be opened in your browser or downloaded, saved and printed.

• Audio Compositions and Presentations
• Video Compositions or Presentations
• Web-based Presentations