EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY

LESSON 6
ONLINE PLATFORMS FOR ICT CONTENT DEVELOPMENT BASIC WE PAGE CREATION

ONLINE PLATFORMS FOR ICT CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

ONLINE PLATFORMS- Is a base of technologies designed to run within an online environment

and provides interactive online services.

ONLINE PLATFORMS CURRENTLY INCLUDE, BUT LIMITED TO:

 Presentation
 Cloud computing
 Social media
 File management
 Mapping
 Web page creation

PRESENTATION/VISUALIZATION- This is an online platform that allows you to present and

share presentations, infographics and videos with other people.

CLOUD COMPUTING- As internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are
networked so as to allow sharing of data-processing task, centralized data storage, and online
access to computer services or resources.

SOCIAL MEDIA- As websites and other online means of communication that are information
and to develop social and professional contacts.

FILE MANAGEMENT- This is an online platform that allows you to convert and manage files like
image, video, documents, audio and more to other formats without downloading software tool.

WEB PAGE CREATION- This is an online platform that lets you build a web page that includes
colors, text, images, and often contain links to media such as video and audio.
ONLINE PLATFORMS FOR ICT CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

 SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS-website like facebook allow you to create not only personal
accounts but also pages and groups where you can share content.
 BLOGGING PLATFORMS- Websites like WordPress, Tumblr, and blogger focus on
content and design.
 CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM- Is a computer application that allows you to publish,
edit, and manipulate, organize and delete web content.

LESSON 7
BASIC WEB PAGE CREATION

HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language)

CSS(Cascading Style Sheet)

WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get)

LESSON 8
COLLABORATIVE ICT DEVELOPMENT

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

COLLABORATIVE- The situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve
the same thing.

INTERACTIVE- Allows user interaction with dynamic and immersive experience by integrating
multiple forms of media.

WEB PORTALS- is a website that contains information from different sources and place them in
one location in a uniform way.

ONLINECOLLABORATIVE TOOLS

1. You can use Facebook groups to create a group page that will allow people in your
group to communicate your ideas.
2. WordPress also allows you to have multiple contributors for a single blog.
3. Google Drive and Microsoft Office online allow multiple people to work on different
office files and even their own group’s cloud storage.
4. Microsoft’s Yammer offers companies to have their social network that allows sharing
and managing content.
5. Sites like Trello offer an online-to-do-checklist for your entire team.
Multeractive Multimedia

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) has a major effect in our lives
whether it is being connected to your friends and family, having to follow your favorite
celebrity, or being instantly updated about the latest news and happenings.

MULTIMEDUA CONTENTS:

 VIDEOS- through video hosting sites, you can take video and show it to the entire world.
 SOUND, MUSIC, OR AUDIO- If videos are too much for you, you can now share your
sound bites with the entire world.
 ONLINE GAMES- Game developers now create what is called “browser-based games”
You do not need to install these games to your computer as they run in most updated
web browsers.
 ONLINE TEST- Online survey forms and test that automatically display the results when
finished.
 COURSEWARE- Online course that simulate the class online.
 PODCASTS- An episodic series of audio or text files streamed online.
 VODCAST- An episodic series of video streamed online.

LESSON 9
THE ROLE OF ICT IN RECENT HISTORY

EDSA(PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION)

The People Power Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of Radyo
Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of President Ferdinand
Marcos. A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving 2 million
Filipinos from different sectors.

EDSA DOS

This is also known as the 2001 EDSA Revolution, which happened from January 17 to 21, 2001.
It was fueled after 11 prosecutors of then-President Joseph Estrada walked out of the
impeachment trial. As a result, the crowd EDSA grew over the course of a few days through text
brigades. Like the first People Power Revolution, Edsa Dos would not have been successful
without text brigades.

MILLION PEOPLE MARCH

This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013.
Several demonstrations happened around key cities in the Philippines and some locations
overseas. It condemned the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).

Through dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around
400k. Despite that, it was still considered a success and demonstrated how powerful social
media campaigns are. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used
Facebook and Change.org as their medium.

YOLANDA PEOPLE FINDER

Recent storms in Philippine history gave birth to the People Finder database powered by
Google. During typhoon Yolanda, the People Finder was a vital tool for people across the globe
to track the situation of their relatives. This proved to be successful and is now adopted by
more organizations to help people track relatives during calamities.

CREATING A CONCEPT PAPER

This allows experts to see if your project is doable over the time frame that was given and if it is
significant enough to be made into reality.

FIVE ELEMENTS OF A CONCEPT PAPER

1. INTRODUCTION- includes your group’s mission and vision and a brief introduction of
your project.
2. PURPOSE- includes the reasons why this project is worth your group and your sponsor’s
time, effort, and money.
3. DESCRIPTION- includes all the necessary information about the project.
4. SUPPORT- contains the budget needed for the project. Some concept papers do not
specify any amount requested from the sponsor.
5. CONTACT INFORMATION- includes information on how the group can be conducted.

SIMPLIFIED ICT PROJECT PROCESS OVERVIEW

1. PLANNING
 Conceptualizing your project
 Research available data about your topic
 Setting deadline and meetings
 Assigning people to various tasks
 Finding a web or blog post
 Creating a site map of your website
 Listing down all applications that you need including web apps
 Funding(if applicable)
2. DEVELOPMENT- Involves the actual creation of the website(s); involves the production
of image, infrographics, etc.
3. RELEASE AND PROMOTION- involves the actual release of the website for public view
and promoting it. Promotion typically starts before the actual release.
4. MAINTENANCE- involves responding to feedback of your site visitors and continuing to
improve the website.

LESSON 10
REFLECTING ON THE ICT LEARNING PROCESS COVERING

ICT, THE SELF, AND SOCIETY

INFORMATIN AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY(ICT) plays a crucial role in the

development of our society. It gives convenient access to every part of the world in different
settings.

ICT gives a tremendous advantage of saving time and effort, especiallyin times of crisis like a
pandemic.

People see it as an opportunity to grow and to cope with the innovations.

ICT HAS AN IMMENSE IMPACT ON HUMANITY. It covers all developing sectors to improve their
service, lifestyle, and as the basis of economic growth.

COMMUNICATION- It is the most crucial part of the role of ICT in the delivery of accurate
instructions in many forms.

INFORMATION CAN DISTRIBUTED AND ACCESSED EASILY THROUGH VARIOUS MODES LIKE:

 CHAT
 TEXT MESSAGE
 E-MAIL
 ADVERTISEMENT
 POSTER
 WEBSITE
 AND OTHER WITH/OUT INTERNET CONNECTION.

CALLENGES:
 The benefit of ICT when it comes to distant communication may not be accessible to
some people, organization, or community due to several factors like socioeconomic
status, government rules, cultural norms, or place restrictions.
 Digital divide is a term used that hinders them from gaining access to the information
due to the unavailability of technology.

EDUCATION

Sec. Leonor Magtolis Briones said that “EDUCATION MUST CONTINUE”

THESE PLATFORMS MAY INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

 Use of Learning Management System(LMS)

 Create or send online presentations, collaborative tools
 Use of social media
 Creative website
 Publish journals online
 Use of e-portfolio
 Students will have more opportunities to access information through the World Wide
Web than those who are in modular instruction.

E-COMMERCE

It is said that business is the blood of the economy. ICT plays a vital role when it comes to e-
commerce, where most of the jobs operate using different technologies.

 E-commerce has immensely evolved where the approaches in buying and selling goods,
products, and even services are now available online.
 Online advertisements can be created and posted quick by liking to other websites. One
of the in demand postings of ads is the use of social media.