ONLINE PLATFORM TOOLS FOR

ICT CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

GRADE11-EMTEC
 PRESENTATION TOOLS
The application allows users to customize their slides with texts, images, graphics, tables, charts,
and videos.
Examples:
• Zoho Show- a browser-based online presentation tool with a real-time collaboration feature. The
application allows users to customize their slides with texts, images, graphics, tables, charts, and
videos. Elements can also be animated for a more enhanced interactivity.
• LinkedIn slideShare- an American hosting service for professional content including
presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly
in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, or OpenDocument format.
• Google Slides- Google Docs brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to
help you easily format text and paragraphs. Choose from hundreds of fonts, add links, images,
and drawings. All for free.
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• SlideRocket- an online presentation platform that lets users create, manage, share and
measure presentations. SlideRocket is provided via a SaaS model.
• MS Powepoint- is one of many programs run by the company Microsoft and can be
identified by its trademark orange, and P initial on the logo. It offers users many ways to
display information from simple presentations to complex multimedia presentations.
• Prezi- the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring
your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.
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 CLOUD COMPUTING
It provides hardware, storage, servers and data center space or network components; it may also
include software.
Categories
• SaaS- Software as a Services, a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts
applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet.
• PaaS- Platform as a Services, platform-based service is a category of cloud computing services
that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the
complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing
and launching an app.
• IaaS- Infrastructure as a Services, a service model that delivers computer infrastructure on an
outsourced basis to support enterprise operations. Typically, IaaS provides hardware, storage,
servers and data center space or network components; it may also include software.
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Examples
• Evernote
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Amazon Cloud Drive
• Microsoft OneDrive
 SOCIAL MEDIA
A websites and
applications that
enable users to create
and share content or
to participate in
community
networking.
Examples:
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Tumblr
• Instagram
 FILE MANAGEMENT
It allows users to convert files without downloading a software tool, and supports different conversion types.
Examples:
• Zamzar, is an online file converter, created by brothers Mike and Chris Whyley in England. It allows users to
convert files without downloading a software tool, and supports over 1,200 different conversion types.
• Word2pdf, is an online tool that creates PDF files from .doc and .docx formats. Click the upload button and
select a Word file from your computer.
• Dropbox, is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San
Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
• Sky Drive, is a data storage and syncing application provided by Microsoft Corporation under its Windows
Essentials 2012 series of applications for Windows 8.
• Google Drive, is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012,
Google Drive allows users to store files on their servers, synchronize files across devices, and share files.
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EXAMPLE INTERFACE
 OTHER ONLINE TOOLS
MAPPING
A geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in
the world.
Examples:
• Google Maps, is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial
photography, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions,
and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air (in beta), or public transportation.
• Wikimapia, is a privately owned internet company that provides an open-content collaborative mapping
project. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map with a geographically-referenced
wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
• Waze, is a GPS navigation software app owned by Google. It works on smartphones and tablet
computers that have GPS support. It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted
travel times and route details, while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile
telephone network.
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MAPPING-EXAMPLE INTERFACE
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SURVEY
a suite of paid back-end programs that include data analysis, sample selection, bias elimination, and data representation
tools.
Examples:
• Google Forms, is a survey administration app that is included in the Google Drive office suite along with Google Docs,
Google Sheets, and Google Slides.[1] Forms features all of the collaboration and sharing features found in Docs, Sheets,
and Slides.
• Survey Monkey, is an online survey development cloud-based software as a service company. It was founded in 1999 by
Ryan Finley and Chris Finley. The company provides free, customizable surveys, as well as Typeform, is a Barcelona-
based online software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in online form building and online surveys. Its main
software creates dynamic forms based on user needs. Typeform's software has been used by Apple Inc., Airbnb, Uber and
Nike, Inc.
• Zoho Survey, Create your survey in minutes. Reach your audience on every device. View results graphically and in real-
time.
• Survey Planet, offers a tremendous set of free tools for designing your survey, sharing your survey online, and reviewing
your survey results. We've got a fantastic user experience and tons of great features.
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SURVEY-EXAMPLE INTERFACE
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BLOG
The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form publication.
Examples:
• Blogger, a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was
developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
• WordPress, a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL that is usually used with the
MySQL or MariaDB database servers but can also use the SQLite database engine.
• Livejournal, a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
• Issuu, The app includes an offline reading list function that allows users to read from the Issuu app without
being online. The app can also stack publications back to back so that they can be read in succession.
• Tumblr, a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently
owned by Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
Users can follow other users' blogs.
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BLOG- EXAMPLE INTERFACE
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MUSIC
An application creating, editing and printing tune/ sound scores.
Examples:
• Sibelius, a scorewriter program developed and released by Sibelius Software Limited (now part of Avid
Technology). It is the world's largest selling music notation program. Beyond creating, editing and printing music
scores, Sibelius can also play the music back using sampled or synthesised sounds
• Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows,
macOS/OS X and Unix-like operating systems.
• Wavepad, is an audio and music editor for Windows and Mac (also available for iOS and Android). It lets users
record and/or edit music, voice and other audio recordings. As an editor, users can cut, copy, paste, delete, insert,
silence, and auto-trim recordings, then add effects like amplify, normalize, equalize, envelope, reverb, echo,
reverse, and more with the help of VST plugin support and a free stock audio library.
• Ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who
need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please
more advanced users.
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MUSIC- EXAMPLE INTERFACE