Digital resources like CDs, DVDs, and websites provide students and teachers easy access to information. CDs can store up to 80 minutes of audio or 700MiB of data, while DVDs have higher storage capacity than CDs. Websites are made up of webpages that can be accessed through a URL and contain content in HTML format along with other elements. The digital world allows for individualized learning anywhere and anytime through various online resources.

1. ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
DIGITAL RESOURCES
Sarika.M.G
Reg: 18215361004
Physical Science
Emmanuel College Vazhichal

2. INTRODUCTION
DIGITAL RESOURCE
It seems that the days of the Socratic teacher are fast fading. The digital world gives
everyone an opportunity to find his or her own expert, not necessarily in the classroom. The
Internet and other digital resources provide students and teachers with the means to reach out
to the world and extract the information that they find most interesting, whatever it may be.
In the classroom there are many things that the students know more about their teachers,
simply because the students can do research that was once tedious and required many trips to
the library, yet now only needs a few clicks of the mouse. Digital resources are resources that
provide information about content through CD, DVD and Websites.
COMPACT DISC [CD]
Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format. The format was originally
developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapter for storage of data
(CD –ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write –once
audio and data storage (CD- R), rewritable media (CD-RW), video compact disc (VCD),
Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), photo CD, picture CD, CD-i, and Enhanced music CD,
Audio CDs , audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982.
Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimeters (4.7in) and can hold up about 80
minutes of uncompressed audio or about 700MiB of data .The mini CD has various diameters
ranging from 60 to 80 millimeters (2.4 to 3.1 in) they are sometimes used for CD singles
,storing up to 24 minutes of audio or delivering device drivers.
At the time of the technology’s introduction in 1982, a personal computer hard drive
.By 2010, hard drives commonly had capacities exceeding those of CDs by a factor of several
thousand.
In 2004, worldwide sales of audio CDs , CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30
billion discs .By 2007 ,200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide .CDs are increasingly being
replaced by other forms of digital storage and distribution with the result that audio CD sales
rates in the us have dropped about 50% from their peak , however ,they remain one of the
primary distribution methods for the music industry.

3. DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC OR DIGITAL VIDEO DISC [DVD]
DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips ,
Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic in 1995 .The medium can store any kind of digital data and is
widely used for software and other computer files as well as video programs watched using
DVD players .DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact disc while having the same
dimensions.
Pre –recorded DVDs are mass produced using molding machines that physically
stamp data in to the DVD, Such discs are a form of DVD.ROMs because data can only be
read and not written or erased .Blank recordable DVD discs (DVD-R and DVD +R) can be
recorder and then function as a DVD- ROM .Rewritable DVDs (DVD –RW , DVD+ RW and
DVD –RAM ) can be recorded and erased many times.
DVDs are used in DVD .Video consumer digital video format and in DVD- Audio
consumer digital audio format as well as for authoring DVD discs written in a special
AVCHD format to hold high definition material .DVDs contain other types of information
may be referred to as DVD data discs.

4. WEBSITE
It can also written as website ,or simply site .It is a set of related webpages typically
served from a single web domain .A web site is hosted on at least one web server , accessible
via a network such as the internet address known as a uniform resources locator (URL) . All
publicly accessible websites collectivity constitute the World Wide Web.
Web pages, which are the building blocks of websites, are documents, typically
written in plain text interspersed with formatting instruction of Hypertext Markup
Language(HTML< XHTML)). They may incorporate elements from other websites with
suitable markup anchors. Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP secure, HTTPS)
to provide security and privacy for the user of the webpage content. The user’s application
often a web browser, renders and page content according to its HTML markup instructions
onto a display terminal;
The pages of a website can usually be accessed from the Simple Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) called the web address. The URL’s of the pages organize the to a hierarchy
although hyperlinking between them conveys the readers perceived site structure and guides
the readers navigation of the site which generally includes a homepage with most of the links
to the sites web content and a supplementary about, contact and link pages.
Some websites require a subscription to access some or all their content. Examples of
subscription website include many business sites, parts of new websites, academic journal
websites, gaming website etc.
CONCLUSION
The digital world has blurred the walls of the schools and places of learning.
Individual learners can learn anywhere anytime and at their own pace. We have always had
some children that use broad community resources, but the ease of doing it today is greater
than ever. Technology extends our communications ability beyond face-to-face talking. It
expands it beyond the printed page and reading to a new dimension. It is building a new and
more efficient means of sharing ideas and information among all people.