Online Platforms for ICT

Content Development
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. differentiate the platforms available for developing

web content;

2. understand the purpose of these platforms and

know the basics of using them; and

3. enhance one’s knowledge in the world of cloud

computing.
 What is an Online Platform?
• are technologies that are grouped to be
used as a base upon which other
applications processes or technologies are
developed
 Examples of Online Platform
a. Presentation/Visualization
b. Cloud Computing
c. Social Media
d. Web Page Creation
e. File Management
f. Mapping
 a. Presentation / Visualization
• Communicates information clearly and
efficiently via statistical graphics, plots and
information graphics
 Examples of Presentation /
Visualization
• Prezi – helping to reinvent the art of
presentation
• Google Slides – Google Slides is a
presentation program included as part of
the free, web-based Google Docs Editors
suite offered by Google.
 Examples of Presentation /
Visualization
• Google Slides is available as a web
application, mobile app for: Android, iOS,
and as a desktop application on Google's
ChromeOS. The app is compatible with
Microsoft PowerPoint file formats.
 Examples of Presentation /
Visualization
• SlideShare – to build quickly from concise,
well-presented content from top experts
• Canva - is an online graphic design
platform that is used to create social media
graphics and presentations.
 b. Cloud Computing
• The practice of using a network of remote
servers hosted on the internet to store,
manage, and process data, rather than a
local server or a personal computer.
 Examples of Cloud Computing
• Google Drive – keep all work in one
secure place with online file storage
• Dropbox – keeps your files safe, synced,
and easy to share
 c. Social Media
• are computer-mediated tools that allow
people, companies and other
organizations to create, share, or
exchange information, career interests,
ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual
communities and networks
 Examples of Social Media
• Facebook – is for-profit corporation and
online social networking service
• Tumblr – a micro-blogging platform and
social networking website
 d. Web Page Creation
• encompasses a number of important
elements including color, layout, and
overall graphical appearance.
 Examples Web Page Creation
• Wix – a cloud-based web development
platform that allows users to create
HTML5 websites and mobile sites through
the use of their online drag and drop tools
 Examples Web Page Creation
• WordPress is a free content management
system used to build and maintain
websites. Its ease of use and unique
blogging features have helped it become
the most popular blogging tool on the web.
WordPress provides a web-based user
interface for designing, publishing, and
updating websites.
 Examples Web Page Creation
Text Editor:
VSCode
Sublime Text
Atom
Notepad++
Notepad
MS Word
 Examples Web Page Creation
Text Editor:
VSCode - is a streamlined code editor
with support for development operations like
debugging, task running, and version control. It
aims to provide just the tools a developer needs
for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves
more complex workflows to fuller featured
IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE.
 Examples Web Page Creation
Text Editor:
Sublime Text - is a shareware text and
source code editor available for Windows,
macOS, and Linux. It natively supports many
programming languages and markup languages.
 Examples Web Page Creation
Atom - Atom is a free and open-source
text and source code editor developed by
GitHub
Notepad++ - is a free and open-source
text and source code editor for use with
Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing,
which allows working with multiple open files in
a single window.
 e. File Management
• is the storing, naming, sorting and
handling computer files
Examples of File Management
• word2pdf – convert Word files to PDF
(Portable Document Format) with this
online tool
 f. Mapping
• a transformation taking the points of one
space into the points of the same or
another space
 Examples of Mapping
• Google Maps – a desktop web mapping
service developed by Google