E-TECH (ACTIVITY)

1. platforms that we
can use in creating the
following i.c.t content

2. CONTENTS
a) Presentation/Visualization
b) Cloud Computing
c) Social Media
d) File Management
e) Web Page Creation
f) Blog
g) Mapping
h) Music Creation

3. Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation
program, created by Robert Gaskins and
Dennis Austin at a software company
named Forethought, Inc. It was released
on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh
System Operating system based
computers only.
Presentation
Microsoft PowerPoint

4. Prezi is another template-based
presentation solution that you
can use to create persuasive and
engaging presentations with
unique movement between "slides"
and key points.
Presentation
Prezi

5. Canva is an online platform that
provides templates for a wide
range of business-related
publications, like resumes,
newsletters, business cards,
media kits, brochures and
infographics.
Presentation
Canva

6. SlideShare is 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. Content can then
be viewed on the site itself, on hand held
devices or embedded on other sites.
Presentation
SlideShare

7. Powtoon is an animated
presentation and video platform
for creating short informational
videos and presentations about
your brand or product.
Presentation
Powtoon

8. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of
Amazon (a leading company in eCommerce). Under the
umbrella term of AWS, Amazon provides on-demand
cloud computing platforms like storage, data analysis,
etc. With a whopping 35% market share, Amazon
lends its services to individuals, companies, and
governments. Amazon Web Services allow their
subscribers to enjoy a full-fledged virtual cluster of
computers, at any time, based on their requirements.
The entire service is enabled through the internet.
CloudComputing
Amazon Web Services

9. Google offers its public cloud computing solutions
with the name of Google Cloud Platform, or GCP. It
offers services in all major spheres including
compute, networking, storage, machine learning
(ML) and the internet of things (IoT). It also includes
tools for cloud management, security, and
development. The Google Cloud Storage is a highly
dynamic storage solution that supports both SQL
(Cloud SQL) and NoSQL (Cloud Datastore)
database storage.
CloudComputing
Google Cloud Platform

10. Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure) is the
cloud computing service from Microsoft. Enabled
primarily through Microsoft-managed data
centers, this service proves to be a reliable
solution, especially for Microsoft evangelists. Like
the above solutions, it supports the development,
test, deployment, and management of
applications and services. For web development, it
offers support for PHP, ASP.net, and Node.js.
CloudComputing
Microsoft Azure

11. DigitalOcean is an American cloud hosting
company that launched its first server in 2011.
The small start-up from New York City, New
York has come a long way since 2011 with a
customer base of more than half a million
developers.
CloudComputing
DigitalOcean

12. IBM Bluemix is the cloud computing solution from
IBM that comes with the platform (PaaS) as well
as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings.
With Bluemix IaaS, users can deploy and access
virtualized compute power, storage and
networking using the internet. The IBM service
offerings can be used as a public, private or
hybrid model whichever suits an organization’s
need.
CloudComputing
IBM Bluemix

13. Facebook is the biggest social media site around,
with more than two billion people using it every
month. That’s almost a third of the world’s
population! There are more than 65 million
businesses using Facebook Pages and more than six
million advertisers actively promoting their business
on Facebook, which makes it a pretty safe bet if
you want to have a presence on social media.
Messenger used to be a messaging feature within
Facebook, and since 2011, Facebook has made
Messenger into a standalone app by itself and
greatly expanded on its features. Businesses can
now advertise, create chatbots, send newsletters,
and more on Messenger. These features have given
businesses a myriad of new ways to engage and
connect with their customers.
Facebook Messenger
SocialMedia

14. Instagram is a photo and video sharing
social media app. It allows you to share a
wide range of content such as photos,
videos, Stories, and live videos. It has also
recently launched IGTV for longer-form
videos.
Twitter is a social media site for news,
entertainment, sports, politics, and more. What
makes Twitter different from most other social
media sites is that it has a strong emphasis on real-
time information — things that are happening right
now. For example, one of the defining moments in
the Twitter history is when Janis Krums tweeted the
image of a plane that landed in the Hudson River
when he was on the ferry to pick the passengers
up.
Instagram Twitter
SocialMedia

15. YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing platform where users watch a billion
hour of videos every day. To get started, you can create a
YouTube channel for your brand where you can upload videos
for your subscribers to view, like, comment, and share.
SocialMedia

16. Microsoft OneDrive
If you want to save files and
photos and access them
anytime, anywhere and from any
device, you can’t go wrong with
Microsoft OneDrive. Moreover,
the solution offers a robust
collaboration tool, allowing users
to share files, photos, and folders
with unprecedented ease.
FileManagement

17. Dropbox
An innovative file management
solution that enables you to
organize and store traditional
files, web shortcuts, and cloud
content in one place. It’s also
designed to offer personalized
suggestions that simplify search,
saving a great deal of time and
effort.
FileManagement

18. Apple iCloud
Allows you to securely store
documents, videos, photos,
contacts, and notes in the cloud.
The platform organizes files
automatically, keeping them up to
date and accessible anytime,
anywhere. In addition, it’s built
with powerful collaboration tools
that allow you to share files
(photos or videos) with ease.
FileManagement

19. Google Drive
A robust file management
solution built to offer easy and
secure storage and access to
personal files and folders. The
application leverages Google’s AI
and search technology to enable
teams to access and share files
faster. Even better, Drive
integrates with Sheets, Docs, and
Slides to help teams collaborate
more effectively.
FileManagement

20. eFileCabinet
A robust document management
solution designed to save you the
hassle of tracking down misfiled
documents. It leverages intelligent
organization capability to
centralized all documents in one
place. This, coupled with the
intuitive interface, makes it super
easy to access and retrieve any
file.
FileManagement

21. Wix
● Wix offers a simple, yet powerful online
platform to make Flash websites, MySpace
layouts and more. Using a browser-based
interface, you can choose from a wide
selection of design templates or start with a
blank canvas. Wix provides more than enough
tools to get the job done, with everything from
animation effects and photo albums to Google
maps and RSS feeds. You can also import
photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube
with only a few clicks.
Web pagecreation

22. Weebly
● Weebly is another top choice and sports
a simple click and drag interface that
allows you to create a professional
website very quickly. Content elements,
such as videos, pictures, maps, and text
are added to your website by simply
dragging them from the Weebly bar to
your webpage.
Web pagecreation

23. Webs (formerly FreeWebs)
● With over 20 million websites
created with Webs, this one is
among the most popular free
website creators available and
features many of the same
features of the other online
website builders.
Web pagecreation

24. Webnode
● Webnode has an interface that
could easily be mistaken for
Microsoft Word and it’s incredibly
ease to use. It’s a phenomenal
package and if you’re a Word
user, you should be up and running
in a few minutes.
Web pagecreation

25. Jimdo
● Jimdo operates much like Webnode, by
browsing to each page before editing. You
practically won’t notice a difference
between the site as it appears online and
the site as it appears in editing mode.
Jimdo however, is not quite as powerful or
as easy to use as Webnode.
Web pagecreation

26. Medium – Best Traditional Blogging Site Blog
Medium is home to more than 60 million users. These
bloggers and content creators focus on crafting niche
content for readers to settle down and read.

27. LinkedIn – Best Blog Site for Business Blog
- LinkedIn is probably the most popular social
network for professionals of all stripes.
- They boast more than 590 million users, and 154
million of them in the US. And a lot of them are
active with 44% are monthly active users.
- LinkedIn used to be basically a resume hosting
platform. In a lot of ways, it was like a job-hunting
dating app: you’d go on if you were looking to hire
or looking to get hired but not much else. In the
last few years that has changed dramatically.

28. Instagram – Best Blog Site for Creatives Blog
- Instagram is primarily visual — the feed is all
the images or videos, and very little of the
captions. You can use the caption field for your
text, and users like a long caption. You’ll be
capped at 2,200 characters or about 300
words.
- Instagram is perfect if what you’re sharing is
visual: a lifestyle, art, dance. Or if there’s some
way to share it visually like in a how-to mini-
video.

29. WordPress with Bluehost Hosting – Best Blogging
Software for Flexibility Blog
- WordPress is the most popular website builders out
there.
- That’s because it’s highly flexible and powerful. No
matter what you want from your blog, it can be
done with WordPress.
- To build your own site, you’ll need to buy a domain
name, get web hosting, and set up your
WordPress account.

30. Wix – Best Website Builder for Blogging Blog
- Wix offers you beautiful templates for any type of blog. Easily
customize any web page with their drag-and-drop editor.
- The blog manager is also simple and intuitive, with analytics
and SEO built right in. It’s simple to add the basic features you
might want on your blog too: social tools, likes, comments,
hashtags, categories, and subscriber forms.

31. Google Maps
Google Maps celebrated its 10th birthday this month, and after 10 years,
Google is still the undisputed king when it comes to digital maps. According
to Nielsen, the Google Maps smartphone app sees an average of more
than 79 million unique users per month, and that's just the smartphone
app. There is also an official Google Maps desktop app, not to mention the
millions of third-party applications that use Google Maps APIs.
Mapping

32. Microsoft Bing Maps
Microsoft Bing Maps is a very popular mapping platform, although it has a
long way to go before reaching the immense popularity of Google Maps.
Microsoft is steadily working on adding new features and improvements to
the Bing Maps Platform. The company recently announced the addition of
new Streetside cities and high-resolution aerial imagery on Bing maps as
well as new 3-D cities on the Bing Maps Preview app.
Mapping

33. OpenLayers
OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library that utilizes WebGL,
Canvas 2D and other HTML5 features for rendering maps in modern
Web browsers. OpenLayers is capable of pulling tiles from OpenStreetMap,
Bing, MapQuest, Stamen and many other mapping sources. OpenLayers is
also capable of rendering vector data from GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML,
GML and other geographic data formats.
Mapping

34. Foursquare
The Foursquare API provides programmatic access to the
Foursquare places database, merchant platform and venues
service. Many developers use the Foursquare API to incorporate
the venues platform into their application, which is then used as the
app's location database.
Mapping

35. OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a project maintained by a large group of
volunteers that create and distribute geographic data for the world
for free. A lot of applications, such as Watercolor by Stamen,
HitchWiki and OpenWeatherMap, use OpenStreetMap data.
Mapping

36. - When it comes to beginner-friendly music making
software, GarageBand is the number one free option.
It's easy to download from the Mac App Store, and it
teaches even beginner musicians how to use some
powerful tools.
- GarageBand also happens to be one of the easiest
platforms to make great music. It allows you to create
a song with up to 255 tracks and even offers a
virtual session drummer.
- An alternative for PC users, DarkWave Studio is a
free music production software that supports
Windows 7 or later. It doesn't need much storage,
which is perfect if you plan to use the free software
to make music on a laptop (the best laptops for
making music).
- Although while DarkWave Studio is free, there are a
few in-app ads you need to put up with.
GarageBand DarkWave Studio
Music creation

37. - Unlike the software we already covered, Audacity is a
digital audio editor, not a digital audio workstation. Its main
purpose is manipulating audio data rather than helping you
organize different audio tracks into a coherent whole. You
can read more about the difference in our comparison of
Audacity and GarageBand.
- Audacity lets you edit samples, process audio files, and
export music as a wide range of formats, including MP3,
WAV, or AIFF. It's great if you're looking for free music
production software to put together beats and samples
for songs.
LMMS (which used to stand for Linux
MultiMedia Studio) is a cross-platform
music production software, available on
macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's suitable
for all kinds of music production and is a
great free software option for
beginners.
Audacity LMMS
Music creation

38. Tracktion T7
Tracktion T7 was once a
premium music production
software. Rather than drop T7
when the next software came
out, Tracktion decided to give it
away completely free, making it
one of the most feature-packed
options on this list.
Music creation

39. REFERENCE:
o https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/
o https://www.newgenapps.com/
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare
o https://buffer.com/
o https://comparecamp.com/
o https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
o https://www.quicksprout.com/
o https://www.programmableweb.com/
o https://www.makeuseof.com/
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