How To Create, Publish and Share Digital Stories

Imagine a program that helps you write your thesis, helps your son work on his science project, lets your daughter create comical animations, and lets your spouse create family videos and edit audio files.

Your first response would probably be “That’s too much to ask.” Fortunately however, the developers behind Creaza thought differently and made those tasks possible with their creation.

Creaza is free online tool that offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work. This creative work can be anything from working on a research project to making videos.

The tool is divided into four main categories which work seamlessly with one another.

Mindomo:

Mindomo is cool way to create mind-maps. While working on your project you should brainstorm before getting your hands dirty. Jot down all your ideas in a map-like diagram and then play around with the collected ideas to squeeze the best ones out.

Cartoonist:

The Cartoonist tool can be especially helpful if you’re creating something for children. Through cartoons you can make learning easy and fun. You can carry forward your mind-map ideas and base your cartoons on them.

You get 8 cartoon scenarios to choose from. Choosing any category will open up a panel where you can create your cartoons:

The panel is user-friendly and all tools are self-explanatory. You can create brilliant slides of cartoons which can not only help you while catering to an audience of children, but also help you with giving presentations. Cartoons can be used to deliver a serious message and sometimes the impact, even though delivered by animation, can be greater.

Movie Editor:

Speaking of presentations, you can take them to the next level by incorporating real videos into them. With Creaza you can create those videos with the help of Movie Editor. You get two options to choose from:

Choose an option to open the video creating panel which has a lot of great tools to make great videos:

Audio Editor:

The fourth tool Creaza has is equally impressive. The Audio Editor lets you mash up and edit different sound clips stored on the site. Like in other of its tools, you can insert your own media (audio, in this case) and build on it or edit it.

Using Creaza for free has a few limitations though: you cannot export it on your PC and the maximum storage size you get is 25MB. Apart from lifting these restrictions, going for the paid version gives you more themes to work with. Details can be found here.

Give Creaza a try and see for yourself that it can be the perfect tool to implement your creativity.