Free and Available Digital Tools

Introduction

1. Online Bibliography and Citation Tools

RefWorks

RefWorks Workshop | UC Merced Library

              RefWorks is an online citation manager. It is produced by Ex Libris, a ProQuest company. RefWorks LLC was founded in 2001 and the software was marketed by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts from 2002 until being acquired by ProQuest in 2008. The usefulness of RefWorks is enhanced by the numerous databases and catalogs that allow you to export citations of articles, books, and other resources into RefWorks for storing and managing.

Features:

  • Grabs book information from Amazon and stores it for later access.
  • Makes bibliographies easier.
  • Edit information in your browser.
  • Export to .txt or .html.
  • Similar tools: EasyBib and BibMe.

Functions:

  • It is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
  • You can read annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections.
  • RefWorks is able to generate bibliographies of citations in a variety of formats (e.g., APA, Turabian, MLA).
  • It is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool
  • There are two varieties are available: RefWorks Legacy and the new ProQuest RefWorks (Flow)

Zotero

The Hekman Library -- Three Zotero Workshops Offered (Library Blog)

             Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files). Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft WordLibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. It is produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Features:

  • Zotero shows an icon when a resource (book, article, thesis) is being viewed on many websites (such as library catalogs, PubMedGoogle ScholarGoogle BooksAmazon.com, Wikipedia, and publishers' websites). Clicking this icon saves the full reference information to the Zotero library. Zotero can also save a copy of the webpage, or, in the case of academic articles, a copy of the full text PDF. Users can then add notes, tags, attachments, and their own metadata.
  • Items are organized through a drag-and-drop interface, and can be searched.
  • Selections of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies. Furthermore, all entries including bibliographic information and user-created rich-text memos of the selected articles can be summarized into an HTML report.
  • Zotero users can generate citations and bibliographies through word processor plugins, or directly in Zotero, using Citation Style Language styles. The house styles of most academic journals are available in Zotero, and the bibliography can be reformatted with a few clicks. Zotero also allows users to create their own customized citation styles.
  • Zotero can import and export citations from or to many formats, including Wikipedia Citation Templates,[7] BibTeXBibLateXRefWorksMODSCOinSCitation Style Language/JSONrefer/BibIXRISTEI, several flavours of RDFEvernote, and EndNote.
  • Zotero can associate notes with bibliographic items. It can annotate PDFs and synchronize them with a mobile PDF reader through the Zotfile plugin.
  • As of 2014, Zotero supports more than thirty languages.
  • Zotero launched the online bibliography tool ZoteroBib in May 2018, where users can generate bibliographies online without installing Zotero or creating a Zotero account.
  • Zotero has no dedicated customer support service, but the Zotero website provides extensive information, including instructional screencasts, troubleshooting tips, a list of known issues, and user forums. Questions and issues raised in the forums are answered quickly, with users and developers suggesting solutions.
  • Many academic institutions provide Zotero tutorials to their members.
  • Zotero uses 'translators' – short pieces of computer code, or scripts – written by volunteers, to understand the structure of web pages and to parse them into citations using its internal formats.These open-source scripts may be used by third party tools also, for example Wikipedia's 'Citoid' citation generator.[
  • A community-driven version of Zotero, Juris-M, allows for multilingual citations, and translations and transliterations of citation fields. It also provides additional support for needs of scholars in fields of law. Juris-M is developed by Frank Bennett, who is also one of the developers of the Citation Style Language used by Zotero.

Functions:

  1. Collect with a click.
  • Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.
  1. Organize your way.
  • Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work.
  1. Cite in style.
  • Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 9,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.
  1. Stay in sync.
  • Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your notes, files, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.
  1. Collaborate freely.
  • Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.
  1. Rest easy.
  • Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you always stay in control of your own data.

2. Photo and Image Editing Tools

Adobe Lightroom

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               Adobe Lightroom (officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) is a creative image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Inc. as part of the Creative Cloud subscription family. It is supported on WindowsmacOSiOSAndroid, and tvOS (Apple TV). Its primary uses include importing/saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images. Lightroom's editing functions include white balance, tone, presence, tone curve, HSLcolor grading, detail, lens corrections, and calibration manipulation, as well as transformation, spot removal, red eye correction, graduated filters, radial filters, and adjustment brushing.

Features:

  • Lightroom is a library and development software. Lightroom can store and organize photos once imported into the platform database and is currently compatible with TIFFJPEGPSD(Photoshop), PNGCMYK (edited in RGB color space) and raw image formats.
  • It stores all uploaded photos and raw files on a cloud service and stores files locally and has a more comprehensive set of features.
  • It also allow users to create, upload, and export Lightroom presets, a batch copy of an image's in-program edits.
  • It creates slideshows from any number of photos, to which music or a background can be added.
  • It enables website owners or editors to create simple or sophisticated HTML5 web galleries from their uploaded images.
  • It has photo doctoring features, including spot removal, brush adjustments, radial and graduated filters, and red-eye removal.

Functions:

  • Upon download, Lightroom provides users with several standards presets for color correction and effects and supports sharing custom presets online.
  • Lightroom stores images and interact with Adobe's cloud storage offering and in feature parity.
  • It is more for retouching and manipulations, such as enhancing and improving digital photographs by changing color balance, improving tone, sharpening, reducing noise, cropping, straightening, and converting to black-and-white
  • It enables users to print images and adjusts printing parameters such as layout and orientation.
  • It allows users to create and format photo books. Books can be exported to the self-publishing vendor Blurb or printed at any local press as a PDF.
  • Another often used feature in Lightroom is the ability to synchronize edits from one selected photo to the whole selection.

VSCO

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               VSCO (formerly known as VSCO Cam, is a photography mobile app for iOS and Android devices. The app was created by Joel Flory and Greg Lutze. The VSCO app allows users to capture photos in the app and edit them, using preset filters and editing tools.

Features:

  • When editing photos in VSCO, you can easily compare the before and after images. It also create images you love with exclusive tools like HSL and Borders transforms videos with VSCO presets and special video editing tools.
  • VSCO has a wide range of photo editing tools for fine-tuning color, brightness, and sharpness. It also has adjustment tools for cropping, straightening, and correcting perspective problems.
  • Basic VSCO Presets enhance your photos with VSCO’s original presets and can edit photos with standard tools like Contrast, Saturation, and Grain
  • You can edit using both filters and manual adjustments to create the exact look you want. JPEG and raw image files can be used.
  • VSCO filters (also known as ‘presets’) offer a quick one-tap editing solution. Each filter creates a different look by applying preset color and exposure adjustments.

Functions:

  • Photos can be taken or imported from the camera roll, as well as short videos or animated GIFs (known in the app as DSCO; iOS only)
  • The user can edit their photos through various preset filters, or through the "toolkit" feature which allows finer adjustments to fade, clarity, skin tone, tint, sharpnesssaturationcontrast, temperature, exposure, and other properties.
  • Users have the option of posting their photos to their profile, where they can also add captions and hashtags.
  • Photos can also be exported back into the camera roll or shared with other social networking services.
  • The users also have an option to edit their own videos from their camera roll with the VSCO yearly membership, but they are not able to post camera roll videos to their account on VSCO.

3. Survey and Polls Tools

 Google Forms

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               Google Forms is free online software that allows you to create surveys and quizzes. It's part of Google's web-based apps suite, including Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and more. It's a versatile tool that can be used for various applications, from gathering RSVPs for an event to creating a pop quiz. Google Forms allows you to easily create polls and surveys using a wide variety of forms and question types. It also lets you include multimedia materials into your forms such as images and videos. Its collaborative features enable you to work with your team to build a survey or poll together. ‘Responses to your surveys are neatly and automatically collected in Forms, with real-time response info and charts. Or, take your data further by viewing it all in Sheets.

Features:

  • Surveys
  • Questionnaires
  • Custom forms
  • Drag-and-drop
  • Customize values
  • Reorder questions
  • Add images, videos, and custom logic
  • Real-time response information
  • Automatic summaries
  • Access control
  • Data validation rules
  • Collect & organize information
  • Create polls & pop quizzes
  • Customizable branding
  • Curated themes
  • Multiple choice
  • Dropdowns
  • Page branching
  • Question skip logic
  • Responsive forms
  • Real-time response charts
  • Export to Google Sheets
  • Multi-user collaboration

Functions:

  • Keep forms private by adjusting the sharing settings for each Google form and control who is able to view and edit information.
  • Set up a questionnaire, send it to customers, and watch as the responses are recorded in real-time into a spreadsheet.
  • Create questions and analyze results with the team with features for real-time collaboration, and create forms quicker without having to send multiple versions of the file.
  • Google Forms' smart data validation rules help ensure that email addresses are properly formatted, data is correct, and that people receive the appropriate questions based on previous answers.
  • All Google forms are responsive, meaning that users can create, edit, and respond to forms using any device such as a smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer

Poll Everywhere

Intro plan sign up | Poll Everywhere

             Poll Everywhere works in major presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides. Poll Everywhere is the world’s largest real time web, SMS, and Twitter polling service that lets users submit votes or comments to a PowerPoint or Keynote slide. It is a modern alternative for expensive hardware audience response clickers. In the most common usage, a live audience with mobile devices is voting or writing comments to a large screen seen by the audience.

Features:

  • Add images to questions for helpful context
  • Get creative with clickable images
  • Highlight thoughtful responses
  • Set a template poll to reduce prep time
  • Hide responses in a live poll chart
  • Import multiple polls in a snap with CSV import
  • Present from iPad
  • Change language settings for non-English-speaking students

Functions:

  • This web tool engages audience in real time interaction.
  • It lets you design interactive polls and surveys and deliver them live to your audience.
  • Responses appear in an animated graph or chart embedded in your presentation. Results update live for all to see.
  • Can be used for PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides and add polls to your existing presentation decks in just a few clicks.
  • Engaging distance learning as it can use activities to take attendance, give quizzes, and gauge understanding whether students are near or far.

4. Web Conferencing Tools

CISCO Webex Meetings

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                Webex Meetings is Cisco's cloud-based web and video conferencing service that enables global and virtual teams to collaborate on mobile devices and standards-based video systems in real time. Webex Meetings includes features such as screen sharing, meeting recording, customizable layouts as well as meeting broadcasting. Webex Training supports live or on-demand training sessions with capabilities such as testing and automated grading for over 1,000 participants.  It also supports large-scale virtual events for more than 40,000 participants.

Features:

  • In real-time or anytime, Webex is an engaging, intelligent, and inclusive app that makes working together, better.
  • The software offers a persistent virtual meeting room for in-office and remote teams to collaborate. While Webex Teams is primarily a cloud-based service, it also supports hybrid and on-premises systems.
  • Webex Meetings includes features such as screen sharing, meeting recording, customizable layouts as well as meeting broadcasting.
  • Webex Meetings features personal rooms that users can customize, schedule meetings or leave open for ad hoc meetings. Users can also schedule meetings from Webex Teams, join Webex meetings from Teams or continue conversations in Teams after a meeting ends.
  • It also has a customer service offering called Webex Support. The service includes capabilities such as live chat, video conferencing, remote desktop control, and automatic queuing and routing.

Functions:

  • Webex Meetings supports large-scale events such as webinars and virtual training. Webex Events supports interactive webinars and events for up to 3,000 attendees.
  • Users can join calls on multiple devices, and can switch devices mid-call.
  • Voice options from phone or computer audio, HD video and calls can be recorded.
  • Users can share various files among participants, and content sharing extensions are available for web use. They can chat and screen share features are available.
  • Annotation tools are available. Screens can be controlled remotely and added security features. 

Zoom

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             Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing service you can use to virtually meet with others - either by video or audio-only or both, all while conducting live chats - and it lets you record those sessions to view later. Zoom enables you to virtually interact with co-workers when in-person meetings aren't possible, and it has been hugely successful for social events, too.  It is an essential tool for small-, medium-, and large-sized teams who want to keep in touch and continue their daily workflows with minimal disruption - as well as becoming a firm favorite with individuals.

Features:

  • One-on-one meetings: Host unlimited one-on-one meetings even with the free plan.
  • Group video conferences: Host up to 500 participants (if you purchase the "large meeting" add-on). The free plan, however, allows you to host video conferences of up to 40 minutes and up to 100 participants.
  • Screen sharing: Meet one-on-one or with large groups and share your screen with them so they can see what you see. 
  • Recording: You can record your meetings or events too.
  • You can join zoom meetings via a webcam or phone.

Functions:

  • Zoom Free:  You can hold an unlimited number of meetings. Group meetings with multiple participants are capped at 40 minutes in length, and meetings can't be recorded.
  • It allows one-to-one chat sessions that can grow into group calls, training sessions and webinars for internal and external audiences, and global video meetings with up to 1,000 participants and as many as 49 on-screen videos.
  • The desktop app is available for Windows and macOS, while the mobile app is available for Android and iOS
  • There is a Zoom Chrome extension and Zoom Firefox add-on that let you schedule a Zoom meeting via Google Calendar
  • Even if you do have Zoom apps, you can run Zoom in a browser instead. When you click on a Zoom link on a desktop, it will open a quick browser tab that will then launch the app on your device. 

5. Stock Photos Sites

Shutterstock

Stock Images, Photos, Vectors, Video, and Music | Shutterstock

               Shutterstock is a global provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. This is founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer, Jon Oringer. Originally a subscription site only, Shutterstock expanded beyond subscriptions into a la carte pricing in 2008. It has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2012.Shutterstock is considered by many photographers to be among the top three stock imagery sites today.

Features:

  • Shutterstock offers free registration, and commission rates start at 25%.
  • Shutterstock maintains a library of over 350 million royalty-free stock photos
  • Offers vector graphics, and illustrations, with over 21 million video clips and music tracks available for licensing.
  • Shutterstock Footage contained around 2 million royalty-free video clips.
  • The universal iOS app also included new features for Shutterstock, including the ability to filter image searches by color.

Functions:

  • To get accepted into Shutterstock, you must submit 10 photographs, 7 of which must be approved.
  • Shutterstock has a team of reviewers charged with ensuring editorial consistency and quality.
  • The interface displays images in an interlocking mosaic view, allowing users to view more photos in less time.[
  • With the tool, users can upload an image, either from Shutterstock or another source, and the tool will call up images that look like and have a similar feel to the original photo.
  • The reverse image search allows users to not just search by keywords, but to also find images based on "color schemes, mood, or shapes.

Fotolia

Building a Vibrant Marketplace for the Creative Community

              Fotolia is an Europe-based microstock agency that ranks among the top stock photo sites in the market, competing. with iStock, Shutterstock, and others. In late 2014 the renowned design software company Adobe bought Fotolia in a multi-million dollar deal. 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. As you can imagine, with Fotolia becoming part of Adobe Stock, it is quite the powerhouse in the world of stock photography.

Features:

  • Fotolia features curated collections of high-quality images, graphics, and more from their large creative community.
  • Over 19 million images – including photos, vector images, audio, and video files with over 2.5 million contributing photographers and designers. 
  • Website available in 13 languages
  • Each image has a different credit cost with an x-small image 
  • Standard subscriptions are for large JPEG images only

Functions:

  • Multiple keywords can be used in the searching platform.
  • Searching tools are limited, with the advanced search only having keywords and categories. 
  • Image display options are extensive with too many categories to mention. 
  • The most beneficial relevance filter is that you can exclude the Infinite collection, which is a more expensive collection of images.
  • Fotolia only deals in standard royalty-free images or extended licensed images. 

6. Video Tools

Movavi Video Editor Clips

           Movavi Video Editor Clips is a video editing app for both iOS and Android devices. Unlike many other mobile video editors, it lets you create videos of four aspect ratios – square (1:1), vertical for Instagram Stories (9:16), vertical (4:5), and widescreen (16:9). On the free version, videos do come with a watermark. The subscription, starting at $1.99 per month, lets you remove the watermark, add custom company logos to your videos, add animated stickers for Instagram Stories videos, and enjoy new features for free. Movavi also has a desktop video editing software, Movavi Video Editor, starting at $39.95.

Features:

  • Movavi Video Editor Plus will give you all the features of the standard Video Editor, as well as cool additional functionality.
  • Includes stylish movies from your videos and photos, add titles, filters, transitions, and special effects.
  • Has animation to move objects in your video smoothly around the screen.
  • Has a multi-track timeline.
  • There are many sample video clips, stickers, and music tracks from the extended built-in library.

Functions:

  • Upload videos and photos in any popular format
  • Use the Montage Wizard to create videos automatically
  • Assemble slideshows in a flash with Transition Wizard
  • Cut, crop, and rotate videos on the timeline, enhance image quality
  • Apply artistic filters, add smooth transitions between sections
  • Animate titles, stickers, callouts, and overlay videos
  • Use Chroma key, Pan & Zoom, and other special effects
  • Use Stabilization to fix motion distortion
  • Add your own music or choose from ready-made tracks
  • Adjust audio with the equalizer, detect rhythms, normalize volume, add sound effects
  • Bonus built-in content: new sample videos, stickers, and music tracks

Corel VideoStudio

Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2018 Video Editing Suite: Amazon.ca: Software

          Corel VideoStudio  has all the characteristics of the other top-of-the-line products on this list, including 360-degree VR and 4k support, but it also has the distinction of being the first piece of consumer video editing software to offer motion tracking—which, if you’re not already familiar, is a feature that allows you to track specific objects throughout your cut (if you wanted, say, to point an arrow at one of your characters, blur out his face, or bestow him with a funny hat). Most of the products on this list come equipped with motion tracking, but VideoStudio still boasts one of the best motion tracking systems around.

Features:

  • One of the knocks on VideoStudio is its speed, which lags notably behind some of the faster systems on this list, like CyberLink PowerDirector and Pinnacle Studio.
  • VideoStudio has expanded its remarkable combination of beginner-friendly tools, tutorials, and user interface with breakthrough creativity to make video editing truly fun!
  • Edit video with essential tools that combine your photos and videos with ease, making it simple to add polish and export as an eye-catching and engaging production.
  • Transform footage into a smooth and sophisticated movie by adding graphic elements, animated titles and transitions.
  • Even turn your titles into realistic onscreen handwriting or apply animated pen effects.
  • Boost color and use color grading to quickly shift the color scheme of your entire video, apply lens correction, explore Blur Motion tools and stabilize shaky footage—surprise yourself with the results!
  • Have effects and filters, creatively blend overlays, and add morph or seamless transitions along with dynamic and 3D titles to make your video more impressive and entertaining.

Functions:

  1. Enhanced video stabilization
  • Make real-time corrections to shaky hand-held footage more quickly and efficiently than ever with the enhanced proDAD Mercalli video stabilization tool.
  1. Enhanced performance
  • VideoStudio 2021 is optimized for the latest video hardware acceleration technologies from Intel, AMD and nVidia, which dramatically improves previewing and speeds up rendering to popular file formats. Enhanced performance, improved rendering and our fastest interface responses to date make VideoStudio 2021 our best editor yet.
  1. Improved tools & features
  • Ultimate onlyenhanced video mask creator
  • Enhanced split screen editing
  • Enhanced customize motion controls
  • New auto motion blur

7. Assessment Tools

Kahoot

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             Kahoot is a game-based learning platform used to review students' knowledge, for formative assessment or as a break from traditional classroom activities. It is among the most popular game-based learning platforms, with 70 million monthly active unique users and used by 50% of US K-12 students.

Features:

           There is a wide variety of features that Kahoot offers. Some of them are given below:

a. Creator features

  • You can create quizzes within a few minutes.
  • Variety of templates available. You can make a great choice amongst them.
  • Feature of importing questions.
  • Explore and choose amongst 500M questions available in the question bank.
  • Option to blend multiple Kahoots.
  • Feature of inserting drawings in the iOS app.
  • You can add youTube videos also into questions.
  • Kahoot teachers can blend multiple questions into one form, i.e., quizzes, polls, puzzles, and slides.
  • Option to choose high-quality images from the library.

b. Gameplay

  • To make learning interactive and interesting, games are designed through videos.
  • Create games according to the potential of the students. They can play with ease at home or in the classroom.
  • Students can play both individually or in groups.
  • Quiz creators can also add multiple choice questions to the quiz.
  • Attention is created through true/false questions.
  • Users can keep time flexibility in mind according to the level of the questions.
  • Quiz creators can attain feedback through polls.
  • Assess the understanding of students learning through the option of puzzles.
  • More content can be created and shown through slides.

c. Reports and analytics

  • Kahoot teachers can download reports in a spreadsheet.
  • Provide access to the visibility of reports about the progress level of the class.
  • Teachers can also share reports with the other teachers and the school administration.
  • Individualized learning is possible through this app.

d. Sharing and Organization

  • Provide accessibility to share the games with other users of Kahoot.
  • Share student-centered challenges with Microsoft Teams, Google Classrooms, and Apple Schoolwork.
  • Feature of organizing Kahoot into different folders topic or subject-wise.
  • It can be created and shared by many teachers amongst themselves.

Functions:

  • It is a unique platform because it enables fun-loving and lively learning.
  • It allows discussions and maintains collaboration and motivation around the content based on education.
  • It gives real-time experiences through visual backgrounds, music, game mechanics, and virtual moments that help learners find or explore their hidden innate talents and capabilities.

Mentimeter

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           Mentimeter is an easy-to-use presentation software used by more than 25 million people. With Mentimeter you can create fun and interactive presentations. We help you make your events, presentations, lectures, and workshops innovative and memorable.

Features:

  • Build beautiful interactive presentations in the presentation builder.
  • Collect polls, data and opinions from participants using smart devices.
  • Get insights on participants with trends and data export.

Other features:

a. Build interactive presentations

  • 13 interactive question types including word clouds and quiz.
  • Build entire presentations quickly and easily with Content Slides.
  • Select from different presentation themes or build your own.
  • Integrated with free stock image and GIF libraries.

b. Present to engage

  • Easy-to-use presenter mode.
  • The audience interacts anonymously with a smart device.
  • Use the Mentimote to moderate and control presentations.
  • Enable profanity filters in multiple languages

c. Analyze data and take action

  • Export data in a PDF or Excel file.
  • Compare data over time with Trends.
  • Segment response to get deeper insights.
  • Collect feedback via surveys

Functions:

  • Workshop: Make your workshop fun, collaborative and interactive with Mentimeter, letting you save time for preparation as well as documentation.
  • Training: Conduct corporate training sessions in a new way. Add gamification to your session to energize and improve the learning experience.
  • Education: Make your teaching more interactive by letting the students actively participate in lectures through using Mentimeter as a formative assessment tool.
  • Meetings: Ensure an effective and productive meeting through visualization of everyone’s opinions with Mentimeter.
  • Events: Make events more exciting with Mentimeter by enabling the audience to participate in interactive presentations.
  • Conferences: Use Mentimeter for your conference to increase the energy and give everyone the chance to voice their opinion.

8. PDF Tools

Foxit Phantom PDF 

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              Foxit Phantom PDF is a complete convert PDF software application for businesses or personal users, it is another PDF text editor capable of editing your PDF files in Windows systems.

Features:

  • Merging and splitting pdfs
  • Annotating and sharing PDF files
  • Creating PDF forms
  • Converting pdfs to other file formats.

Functions:

  • Edit text in a paragraph and the text will automatically reflow and reformat as you edit. Edit text font type, style, size, and color. Align text left, center, or right.
  • Edit text in a paragraph and the text will automatically reflow and reformat as you edit. Edit text font type, style, size, and color. Align text left, center, or right.
  • Create standard compliant PDFs, easily share PDF content by exporting to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and more.
  • Password and certificate encryption and rights permission. Sanitize documents to remove undesired information. Sign documents with link and digital signatures and e-sign integration..
  • Easily share and collaborate PDFs through annotations, email, and integration with third party Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMSs).
  • Create professional looking PDF interactive forms or fill standard PDF and XFA forms, allowing you to leverage existing forms and workflow.
  • High performance PDF viewing, creating, and printing without exhausting system resources.

PDFelement 

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             PDFelement is a document management solution for businesses of all sizes that converts multiple document formats and image files into PDFs. It is a worthy alternative to Adobe Acrobat, which has been widely regarded as the industry standard when it comes to PDF editing.

Features:

  • Annotating
  • Editing
  • Converting pdfs to other formats
  • Add a signature
  • Filling pdf forms
  • Improve the performance of file management.
  • Fix multiple defects and improve application stability.

Functions:

  • PDFEelement includes all the tools to read, edit, annotate, protect and create PDF files on your iPhone and iPad.
  • Using this software you can perform many of the functions found in the much more expensive Acrobat DC Pro version. Once you get the hang of the interface you can indeed edit files rather than just perform reviewing functions.
  • You can add or remove text or pictures, create forms, change the page order or add/remove pages.
  • You use the Mac version: there is also a free version for iPhone. The IOS format is free
  • It is the easiest way to create, edit, convert and sign PDF documents on Windows and Mac. This leading alternative to Adobe® Acrobat® offers enterprise-grade PDF functionalities and perpetual licensing at a fraction of the price.

Credits

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Online Bibliography and Citation Tools - Dean Arevalo Pamesa

Photo and Image Editing Tools - Franczeska Jessan Z. De Chavez

Survey and Polls Tools - Florian Clarriz Locar

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