EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES

MODULE 5 (Q4)

LESSON 9: Collaborative ICT Development

Introduction
ICT skills are one of the basic skills that every 21st Century learner
nowadays should possess. ICT empowerment enables everyone connected
to even in the farthest parts of the world. With the aid of ICT development,
one can establish connections and work collaboratively to maintaining order in
the community. At the end of the two week period, you should be able to
develop an online portal or website to showcase and share existing and
previously developed content that can be navigated through the use of
gadgets such as cellular phones, computer and etc. These may be in the form
of, but are not limited to an online newsletter, Blog, Video log (Vlog), or online
magazine.

WEB PAGE

Web Page is a document written in HTML (Hypertext Markup

Language) that can be made accessible through the use of internet or using
an Internet browser. A web page is accessed through the use of a URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) address and may contain text, graphics, and
hyperlinks to other web pages and files.

Online collaborative tools comes in different kinds of platforms use for

ICT development. These platforms enables users and admins promote
interpersonal communication, enhances interactivity, establish a common
goals that will result to greater outcome of ICT readiness on an individual or
group. Hence below are some of the most common samples for platforms in
collaborative ICT development.

WEB PORTAL
Is a website that contains information from different sources and places
them in one location in a uniform way, where news, email, weather, etc. are
found in one page
The information found in the image came from different websites/sources.

ONLINE COLLABORATIVE TOOLS

Working together does not necessarily mean you have to be physically

together.

These tools can help your group “go the distance” and work as if you
already have your own office.

1. Facebook – you can create a group page that will allow people in your
group to communicate your ideas
2. WordPress – allows multiple contributors for a single blog

3. Google Drive and Microsoft Office Online – allow multiple people to work
on different office files and even have their own group’s cloud storage

4. Microsoft’s Yammer – offers companies to have their own social network

that allows sharing and managing content

5. Trello – offers an online to-do checklist for your entire team

OTHER ONLINE COLLABORATIVE TOOLS that can be used but not limited
to
1. Google Docs/ MS Office 365
2. Prezi
3. Google Chat/ Hangouts
4. Skype/ Viber/ Kakao Talk/ WeChat/ Line

Platforms that may be currently used to host newsletters and similar ICT
content include but are not limited to:

(A) for Presentation and visualization platforms- example Prezi, Zoho,

Slideshare and Mindmeister.

(B)for cloud computing - example Google Apps - Evernote, google drive

(C) for Social Media venues include Facebook Pages, Tumblr, Instagram and
Pinterest. Development of

(D) for web page in which Wix, Weebly and Google Sites and lastly

(E) Blog or Publisher sites such as Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal, and

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