information tools

Informative tools

Informative tools are applications which provide a vast amount of information in various formats such as Audio, image, videos, text, and animations. Informative tools do not really do anything rather they should be considered as huge, passive repositories of information. Informative tools provide information for students to manipulate and from which knowledge can be constructed. 
With the access to informative tools, students themselves can easily download the relevant 
document and also they can use captured information as a source materials, which should be recognized for their composition assignment or presentation. Moreover, it helps in generating 
and testing hypotheses during a problem-solving process.

Audio/sound

Music, speech (voice narration) or any other sound

Video

Video refers to the recording, reproducing, manipulating and displaying moving pictures especially in the format that can be presented in the television.

Text

Text is a collection of words or letters that are understandable by the reader. On other hand computer 

text can be created,viewed, edited and modified using a text editor.

Image

Image is a picture that has been created or copied and stored in electronic form.

Animation

Animation is the illusion of movement created by showing a series pf still pictures in rapid succession.

Graphic

Graphic is a combination of image, text, video and animation.

Advantages of informative tools are:

• Develop information search skills

•  Enhance critical thinking

• Learn to evaluate resources on the internet.