Software options for virtual photovoice
Thanks to Open College of the Arts students for help and suggestions from the OCA discussion forum.
My criteria for use: ease of uploading, ease of organising into themes and manipulating, ease of exporting and cost.
Headings from a table: Platform and url – What is it? – PROS – CONS – Notes – Price – Score
SKETCH TOGETHER
Platform for communicating ideas-More drawing than manipulating images but can upload and organise images quite well.
A tenth the price of Picter for a similar job.
Clean, simple workspace.
Accepts any file.-Few drawbacks.
Tried this.
Cheap.
Works-$18/m for 20 people
9/10
PICTER
Visual collaboration platform-Sophisticated visual platform – organisation excellent, themes, categories and output of work-Expensive 19/month for each participant i.e. 20 people for 6/12 £2,400-Tried this with them and my own images-19/month for each participant-8
ZEALOUS
Photographic competition submission platform-Allows free submissions – no limits – judging and scoring
Good submission, organisation and outputting-Designed for judging and scoring and not collaborating
*Offer free to some charities – negotiable-£114/m for 900 image submissions
7
SLACK
Team communication tool -Great communication tool for a team. Uploading images like FB, can organise into themes, less clear about outputting-Workspace looks like FB – not clean.
Unclear about exporting work
Tried this – not as strong as others-
£11.70/m
6
MIRO
https://miro.com/pricing/-‘Whiteboard’ team communication tool-Conceptual and programme mapping excellent.
Poor photo management. Expensive.
Not equipped to manage lots of images
Tried this – did not like
$18/m for each participant
5
Social media and image site
Well known. Easy to upload
Difficult to organise lots of submissions and export collections-Can be private
Can have team site
5
INSTAGRAM-
Photo site-Well known.
Organising, and exporting data
Tried this – frustrating
Can have team site
3
Morris Gallagher 26.11.2020