Here is a list of applications (web/computer, iPad, iPhone, Android, etc.) that may come in handy during the course. If you can recommend others, please leave the suggestions with links in the comments. I will generally try to recommend free or low-cost applications, unless otherwise noted.
General
Google Drive/Google Apps (This has pretty much replaced Microsoft Office for many of us because of its sharing capacities…although I find Google Presentation has some limitations over PowerPoint. You can convert most documents and upload them here, as well as create in the Drive. As a Stony Brook student, you have access to Google Apps for Education, which includes a gmail account and Drive/Documents.)
Digication (log in instantly with your NET ID and password) ePortfolio webware. Digication Quickstart.
Virtual SINC site (log in with your NET ID and password)
Have access to dozens of high quality programs found on the SBU SINC site computers, including Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, from your own computer.
Google+ It’s great for collaboration, creating photo albums (and there’s a little Easter egg to create stop-animation videos in that) and sharing work generally with your circles and communities.
Facebook (especially Pages and Groups–this class has a group, and feel free to invite your friends to read and work along with you and jump in and out of the course discussions when they feel like it)
Twitter (probably the single most dynamic way to share ideas and works with the world)
Creative Commons (the Search and the Licensing option)
Storify (use the web’s social media and tell a story with it)
Video
YouTube
Vimeo
Blip.tv
WeVideo
Stupeflix
iMovie
Windows Movie Maker
Vine
Silent Movie
Magisto
Blogging
WordPress (recommended)
Blogger
LiveJournal
Xanga
Weebly
Typepad
Photo/Imaging
flickr
Picasa (Google’s photo app)
iPhoto
Paint
Gimp
Instagram
GraphicConverter (Mac only)
Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop (the high-cost alternative ie pro program, most recently available as a monthly subscription)
Avatar/Gravatar Makers
Gravatar.com (you can send your avatar here, if you like it enough to spread it over the web)
Mashable’s list of avatar-makers
Yahoo’s list of avatar-makers
VooDoo Doll Maker (you can see mine here)
http://www.squidoo.com/avatarmakers