PLDT Recommends These Top Online Resources for Working or Studying at Home

For almost two weeks, most of the students and the workforce were forced to stay at home to avoid getting infected by COVID-19. Not all students are about to end their school year, a lot of schools have changed schedules and they cannot afford not to hold classes. The same with a lot of professionals. Both these students and the working adults were advised to study/work at home. Online classes were held for the students while their parents setup their home office to do their work. So to help families cope up with studying and working at home, PLDT recommends these Top Online Resources. As someone who has been working at home for ten years, I give these tips my seal of approval. Here they are:

PLDT TOP ONLINE RESOURCES: FREE APPS FOR VIRTUAL MEETINGS

You don’t need to be together in one place to have meetings! If you’re working from home, you would need a reliable online tool for your scheduled virtual meetings. Software like Google Hangouts, Zoom,
Microsoft Teams, and even Facebook Messenger allow you to hold meetings over the internet, with options to enable video, virtual presentation, and convenient file-sharing as well.

I have held team meetings and attended job interviews using Google Hangouts in the past decade and it works like a charm!

PLDT TOP ONLINE RESOURCES: FREE APPS TO HELP YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

There are also specific apps that are convenient and safe for file-sharing. You’ve got sites like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, WeTransfer, and Dropbox to easily share large and confidential documents.

You can also take advantage of free apps for notetaking, calendar, timers, and to-do lists that you can conveniently sync on your laptops and mobile phones. These will help you be organized, improve your time management skills, and get more things done. Using these apps will help you stay focused at work and lead a productive and balanced lifestyle for your family at home.

PLDT TOP ONLINE RESOURCES: FREE ACCESS TO IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT AND NEWS SITES

In light of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we need to stay updated and informed more than ever while working or studying at home. These sites are important for daily viewing to get the latest news and credible information:

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

NEWS OUTLETS

What’s even better is that PLDT Home is providing its WiFi Prepaid and volume-based plans subscribers free access to these important government and news websites! That means you can access them whenever, regardless of the data status of your connection.

PLDT TOP ONLINE RESOURCES: FREE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS AT HOME

Of course, the opportunity to learn, grow and discover new skills does not stop when working at home. Whether studying different languages, trying on new recipes, or learning how to make videos or graphics online, there are a lot of online resources that you can explore.

YouTube is the best place to start, with billions of videos available on just about every topic, including tutorials for anything you want to know. You can also listen to your favorite podcasts online for free.

For families with kids who are home-schooling now, this is the best time to enjoy free audiobooks and ebooks online. Amazon-owned Audible is now offering free-to-listen catalogue of children’s stories including literary classics, fairy tales, and a lot more for pre-schoolers, elementary, tweens, and teens. All these are available in six different languages.

You can also be creative with fun and educational activities for your kids. Now you can explore hundreds of museums around the world from the comfort of your home. Google Street View’s Arts and Culture section now offers free virtual tours and exhibits of different museums and galleries worldwide including Tour Eiffel in Paris, British Museum in London, Taj Mahal in India, and Lizares Mansion in Iloilo. The National Museum of the Philippines also offers a 360 degree virtual tour on their website.

The best thing is that you can enjoy more than just videos and a wealth of educational tools online because PLDT Home is also extending its Double Data promo for Wifi Prepaid until April 30! That means PLDT Home Wifi Prepaid subscribers can still get twice the data allocations from their FamLoad packages.

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