Introduction
Digital tools
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Digital tools are programs, websites or online resources that can make tasks easier to complete. A lot of these can be accessed in web browsers without needing to be downloaded, and you can access them both at home and in work. It has a important advantages for making processes more consistent, secure, efficient, and effective. As institutions support staff and students across a broader range of geographies with a broader set of needs, the case for digital solutions only grows.
What are the Examples of Digital Tools
1. Online Bibliography and Citation Tools
A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.
One of the most functional free online bibliography and citation tools on the Internet. All the features an eLearning content developer needs are there.
- 4 Citation Styles
Whether you are using MLA, APA, Turabian or Chicago, BibMe can help you reference your work effectively. - Variety Of Sources
Journals, websites, books and many other sources covering both digital and print format. - Plagiarism Checker
Check your content for plagiarism against plenty of sources on the Internet to avoid using somebody else’s words.
This is definitely one of the most easy to use free online bibliography and citation tools.
- Vast Citation Style Variety
Citation Machine can help eLearning content developers reference in all 4 major styles, namely APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian. However, it provides an immense library of 7.000 additional citation styles for many different fields. - Resources And Guides
The platform offers a guide on how to properly cite in APA, MLA, and Chicago. - Plagiarism Checker
Much like BibMe, this platform also offers this feature that only comes if you subscribe though. - Numerous Sources
Citation Machine allows you to cite content from books, magazines, newspapers, journals, films and many other sources.
2. Photo and Image Editing Tools
Photo and Image Editing Tools is a graphic software programs, which can be broadly grouped into vector graphics editors, raster graphics editors, and 3D modelers, are the primary tools with which a user may manipulate, enhance, and transform images. Many image editing programs are also used to render or create computer art from scratch.
PicsArt is one of the world’s best all-in-one photo and video editor on mobile! Get in on the visual storytelling revolution with the leading app with over 1 billion downloads to date. Edit your photos and videos with trendy filters and effects, fun stickers, cool collages, easy-to-use templates, and do so much more.
Cymera is a photo application that can give a more fresh and dynamic 'look' to your photos, thanks to the huge number of possibilities including filters and 'lenses'. Cymera is a pretty good app that is even better than Instagram at editing and customization level, but it doesn't have an integrated social service.
3. Survey and Polls Tools
A survey tool is digital software that allows you to make and send thousands of surveys. The surveys provide you with data you can analyze to see what you are doing right versus what you need to improve. Most survey tools come equipped with survey templates and sample questions.
Doculicious is the culmination of over 12 months design and development of an application whose goal was to allow people to create formatted, graphical documents in their browser - and make them as easy to use as filling in a web form.
AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool. Post it in a tweet or you can embed it on your website or blog to use it as a poll or guestbook.
4. Web Conferencing Tools
Web Conferencing Tools is an online service by which you can hold live meetings, conferencing, presentations and trainings via the internet particularly on TCP/IP connections. You can connect to the conference either by telephone or using your computer's speakers and microphone through a VoIP connection.
Zoom is free for unlimited number meetings up to 50 participants (duration of 40 minutes per meeting), video conferencing, web conferencing, and group collaboration. The free version also offers security, user management, and online support.
The free version of Join.me allows you to hold an unlimited number of meetings with up to 10 participants per meeting (one organizer plus 9 viewers) using up to five video streams. You can chat with participants, transfer files, join the audio part of any meeting by internet (VoIP), and allow participants to control your computer.
5. Stock Photos Sites
Stock photos are professional-grade photographs that are available for free or bought and sold for a range of purposes. The photographer (or the stock photography distributor) retains ownership of the images and dictates the parameters for how each image can be used.
Shutterstock considered by many photographers to be among the top three stock imagery sites today. Shutterstock offers free registration, and commission rates start at 25%. Since Shutterstock is one of the main hubs for stock photography however, photographers face a decent amount of competition. To get accepted into Shutterstock, you must submit 10 photographs, 7 of which must be approved.
Fotolia is another top tier stock imagery site. It was acquired by Adobe in 2019 and is in the process of being merged into the Adobe Stock photography service. Fotolia features curated collections of high-quality images, graphics, and more from their large creative community. As you can imagine, with Fotolia becoming part of Adobe Stock, it is quite the powerhouse in the world of stock photography.
6. Video Tools
Video Tools is software used performing the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a non-linear editing system. It has replaced traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analog video tape-to-tape online editing machines.
CamStudio is a pretty straightforward program that lets you record your screen and audio and produce outputs in AVI or SWF format. It enables annotation such as text and call out inserts and even provides you some cursor options such as default, hidden or highlighted, which should be carefully laid out prior to recording. You have some video options too which lets you control compression, frame rates , quality and time lapse but aside from that, you can’t really do much with the video because it doesn’t include editing capabilities.
Ezvid is a 100% free video creation tool that allows you to capture everything that appears on your computer screen. It also allows you to edit your recorded videos by splitting your recordings, inserting text and audio, controlling the speed and even drawing directly on your screen. There’s also a Gaming Mode specially designed for gamers to avoid black screen problems when recording games such as Diablo III and Call of Duty which are full screen games. You can save your edited videos for later use or you may directly upload them on YouTube.
7. Assessment Tools
Online assessment tools are scientifically designed to help recruiters test aptitude, cognitive ability, communication, and many other skills. These tools come with auto-evaluation, report generation, and even grading features that transform a slow recruitment process into a fast-paced one.
Using Mentimeter for remote working allows companies to continue to conduct meetings, workshops, training sessions or cover any situation in a remote online setting. Mentimeter is easily accessible wherever your colleagues or team may be located. You can also track how many team members are connected to a presentation. Use Mentimeter to:
- Engage and interact with colleagues using live polls, word clouds, multiple-choice questions and more
- Collect feedback in order to continually improve, both pre and post a session
- Ensure everybody is heard even in online meetings
- Enable Q&A so that queries and questions can be discussed to avoid misunderstandings
- Collaboratively rank and prioritize questions and initiatives
- Maintain a strong team culture across distance
Kahoot engage students in class, remotely or in a hybrid learning environment, and easily assess learning progress. Kahoot features are:
- Create a quiz in minutes
- Add slides with a classic layout
- Choose one of our pre-designed templates as the basis
- Duplicate and editing existing kahoots
- Import questions from a spreadsheet
- Search from millions of questions in our question bank
- Combine multiple kahoots
- Add drawings in our iOS app
- Insert YouTube videos into questions
8. PDF Tools
PDF Tools is a document reconstruction software product which allows users to convert PDFs into editable documents and create PDFs from a variety of file sources. The same technology used in the software's Solid Framework SDK is licensed by Adobe for Acrobat X.
PDFill PDF Editor, PDFill PDF Tools (FREE) and PDFill PDF Writer (FREE) are our flagship products. With numerous enhancement and improvement, they have been adopted by many business and government offices today. Using our products, companies find creative ways to use information technology to increase productivity and competitiveness. The result is lower cost and better management of their operations.
7-PDF Maker is a powerful tool to convert a wide range of formats to PDF. It can convert to PDF files generated by Word, Excel, Powerpoint, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Maths and AutoCad, and will also convert images, text or web based files.
Credits
Group 4 Members
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Charles Manuel B. Flor (Bped)
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Arnel Dela Pena (Mathematics) - 95
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Charlene Oclinaria (English) - 95
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Jelly Balotocopo (English) - 95
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Jhovie Ann Valera (Bped)- 95
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Jovellne Perez (English)- 95
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Philipchezter Lontoc (Mathematics) - 95
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Rowie Claire Lacandola (English) - 95