This document discusses online platforms and applications for ICT development. It defines online platforms as technologies grouped to be used as a base for other applications, processes, or technologies. Examples of online platforms include presentation/visualization tools like Prezi, SlideShare, and MindMeister; cloud computing services like Google Drive and Dropbox; social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and LinkedIn; web page creation tools like Wix and Weebly; file management applications like Zamzar and Word2PDF; and mapping services like Google Maps.

1. ONLINE PLATFORM FOR
ICT DEVELOPMENT

2. THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF ONLINE
PLATFORMS AND APPLICATION
•To be able create a good online
presentation, webpage and
content, you should know the
principle and techniques of
design using online creation
tool, platform and application
to develop ICT content.

3. WHAT IS AN OLINE PLATFORM?
• Are technologies that are grouped to be used as a base upon which other
applications processes or technologies are developed.

4. EXAMPLES OF ONLINE PLATFORMS
• A. Presentation/Visualization
• B. Cloud Computing
• C. Social Media
• D. Web Page Creation
• E. File Management
• F. Mapping

5. A. PRESENTATION/VISUALIZATION
•Communicates information clearly and efficiently via statistical
graphics, plots and information graphics.

6. EXAMPLES OF PRESENTATION/VISUALIZATION
• PREZI – HELPING TO REINVENT THE ART OF PRESENTATION.
• ZOHO- AN ONLINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT APP THAT HELPS YOU PLAN YOUR WORK
AND KEEP TRACK OF YOUR PROGRESS.
• SLIDESHARE- TO BUILT QUICKLY FROM CONCISE, WELL PRESENTED CONTENT FROM
TOP EXPERTS.
• MINDMEISTER- AN ONLINE MIND MAPPING TOOL THAT LETS YOU CAPYURE,DEVELOP
AND SHARE IDEAS VISUALLY.

7. B. CLOUD COMPUTING
• THE PRACTICE OF USING A NETWORK OF REMOTE SERVERS
HOSTED ON THE INTERNET TO STORE, AND PROCESS DATA,
RATHER THAN A LOCAL SEVER OR A PERSONAL COMPUTER.

8. EXAMPLES OF CLOUD COMPUTING
• GOOGLE DRIVE- KEEP ALL WORK IN ONE SECURE PLACE WITH
ONLINE FILE STORAGE.
• DROPBOX- KEEP YOUR FILES SAFE, SYNCED, AND EASY TO SHARE.

9. C. SOCIAL MEDIA
• ARE COMPUTER-MEDIATED TOOLS THAT ALLOW PEOPLE,
COMPANIES, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE, SHARE, OR
EXHANGE INFORMATION, CAREER INTERESTS, IDEAS, AND
PICTURES/VIDEOS IN VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS.

10. EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
• TWITTER- online social networking service and enables users to send and read short 140- character
message called “tweets”
• FACEBOOK- is for profit corporation and online social networking service.
• -allows you to create not only personal accounts but also pages and groups where you can share content.
The only downside of this is that you restricted to the facebook’s “one-size-fits-all” design.
• It is the biggest social network of students, and is gaining ground among professionals too. Facebook
application enables you to add new ways for users to interact with each other. On the plus side, facebook
has a lot of users.

11. • TUMBLR- a micro blogging platform and social networking website.
• LINKEDIN- is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. the goal of the site is to allow
registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally. it is another example
of social networking site where it's focus on business and professional networking.
• What is Linkedin and how can it help you?
• Linkedin is the leading professional network on the web
• Connect with classmates, faculty, and family professionally
• Find new opportunities for internships and full time positions
• Manage what potential employers learn about you from the internet
• Fing key contacts at companies that interest you.

12. D. WEB PAGE CREATION
•Encompasses a number of elements including color, layout, and
overall graphical appearance

13. EXAMPLES
• 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.
• WEEBLY- a web-hosting service featuring a dragand-drop website
builder.

14. E. FILE MANAGEMENT
•is the storing, naming, sorting and handling
computer files.

15. EXAMPLES OF FILE MANAGEMENT
•ZAMZAR- web application to convert files.
•WORD2PDF- convert word files to PDF (Portable Document
Format) with this online tool.

16. MAPPING
•A transformation taking the points of one space into
the points of the same or another space.

17. EXAMPLES
•GOOGLE MAPS- a desktop web mapping service
developed by Google.