La Digitale, is an initiative dedicated to designing and developing free and open-source digital tools specifically for teachers. The core mission of La Digitale is to encourage the use of free and open-source software in education and propose an alternative vision and model that does not pursue profit or data collection.

La Digitale offers a wide array of ethical and free digital tools ("ethical educational digital tools") to support both face-to-face and remote teaching and learning processes.

Here are the main functionalities, categorized by use:

Foundational Principles & Economic Model

• Free and Open Source: All tools are published under an open license (like Digidrive on Codeberg).

• Ethical Model: The model is not driven by the pursuit of profit or data collection.

• Crowdfunding Support: The project relies on a crowdfunding system to cover hosting costs and ensure sustainability.

• Digidrive (Content Management): This provides a centralized space for content creation and management for most of La Digitale’s tools. However, due to rising operating costs, Digidrive is accessible only via an invitation code obtained after supporting the project (a simple and transparent way of encouraging donations).

Online Applications for Education

La Digitale provides numerous online apps, often prefixed with "DIGI-":

1. Collaborative Activities

These tools facilitate group work and interaction:

• DIGIBOARD: To create collaborative whiteboards.

• DIGICALC: To create collaborative spreadsheets.

• DIGIDOC: To create simple collaborative documents.

• DIGIPAD: To create multimedia collaborative walls.

• DIGIPAGE: To create collaborative pages in markdown.

• DIGISTORM: To create collaborative brainstorms and word clouds, and also for creating polls and quizzes.

2. Multimedia Content Creation and Editing

A wide range of tools for managing visual and auditory content:

• DIGIBLUR: To hide faces in a photo.

• DIGICUT / DIGIMERGE / DIGITRANSCODE: To cut out extracts from, assemble, or convert audio and video files.

• DIGIGIF: To create GIF images from video.

• DIGIRECORD: To record and share audio files.

• DIGIREMOVEBG: To remove the background from an image or photo.

• DIGIEXIF: To scrub metadata from images.

• DIGICARD / DIGIDESIGN / DIGISLIDES: To create simple graphical designs, posters/banners, and simple multimedia presentations.

• DIGIFACE: To create avatars.

• DIGISTRIP: To create comic strips.

• DIGIWORDS: To create word clouds.

• DIGIDIAGRAM / DIGIMINDMAP: To create simple diagrams and simple mind maps.

• DIGIPDF: To process PDF files.

• DIGIFLASHCARDS: To create flash cards.

• DIGIPEN: To edit HTML, CSS, and JS files online.

• DIGIQUIZ: To read and share H5P content online.

• DIGILOCK: To create locks for escape games.

3. Course Scripting and Animation

• DIGISCREEN: To run face-to-face or remote courses.

• DIGISTEPS: To create learning paths.

• DIGITOOLS: A series of simple, useful animation tools.

• DIGIBUZZER: To play around with a connected buzzer.

4. Content Sharing and Accessibility

• DIGIBUNCH / DIGILINK: To create bouquets of links or generate short links.

• DIGICODE: To generate QR codes.

• DIGIFLIP: To create flipbooks from PDF files.

• DIGIREAD: To clean up online pages and articles.

• DIGISHARE: To share files with nearby devices.

• DIGIVIEW: To view YouTube videos without distraction.

Desktop and Mobile Software

La Digitale also offers software (LOGI-) for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux, and mobile apps (MOBI-):

• LOGIDOWNLOAD: To download videos and audio files.

• LOGIQUIZ: To create and play H5P content offline.

• LOGITRANSCRIBE: To transcribe audio and video files.

• LOGILEX / MOBILEX: To create a multimedia dictionary (desktop and mobile versions, respectively).

• LOGIMIX: To create simple audio mixes.

• Additional Instances: Tools like MIXAP (for augmented reality activities), RALLLY (for date surveys), and CLAPER (to add interactions to a presentation) are also offered.