2ND Quarterly Examination Reviewer— Empowerment Technologies

Lesson 7: Online Platforms for ICT Content Development

What is an Online Platform?

—This are the technologies that are grouped to be used as a base upon which other applications
processes or technologies are developed.
—It is a specially developed platform using Internet technology for the design and development
of teaching and learning purposes.

Online Technologies
—These are electronic tools, systems, devices, and resources that generate, store or process data
allowing end users to access information over the WWW.
>Prezi
—An interactive online presentation that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring
your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.

Nature and Purpose

—To be able create a good online presentation, webpage and content, you should know the
principle and techniques of design using online creation tool, platform and application to develop
ICT content.
Platforms for ICT Content Development
Since the emergence of Web 3.0, various platforms for web content creation - from blog sites, to
social media, have had their day in the spotlight, but they all have their pros and cons relative to
your needs. Let us now see which tools will fit your future content publishing needs. We will
focus on platforms that will allow us to share our own content to the rest of the world.

>Social Media Platforms

— Websites like Facebook allow you to create not only personal accounts but also pages and
groups where you can share content. The only downside of this is that users are restricted to
Facebook’s “one-size fits-all” design. On the plus side, LinkedIn is another example of social
networking site where its focus is on business and professional networking.

>Blogging Platforms
— Websites like WordPress, Tumblr, and Blogger focus on content and design. It typically looks
like a newsletter where you are given options to change the design to your liking. Users can
manipulate the design. The amount of customization in blogs depends on the content
management system implemented by the provider.

Content Management System

—A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer application, sometimes online or
browser-based, that allows you to publish, edit, manipulate, organize, and delete web content.
CMS is used in blogs, news websites, and shopping. Whether you are starting a shopping site or a
blog, you can use the following Web Site Builders in creating your own website.

>Wix.com
—Wix.com Ltd. is an Israeli software company, providing cloud-based web development services.
An application used to build and customize a website for your business and community for free.
Design and build your own high-quality websites through Wix.com.

>Squarespace
—Squarespace, Inc. is a private American company, based in New York City, that provides
software as a service for website building and hosting. Square space is the all-in-one solution for
anyone looking to create a beautiful website with an award-winning template.

>WordPress
—WordPress is a content publishing platform that appeals to site developers because of its
customizability and plug-ins. It is actually two platforms: WordPress.com (fully hosted by
WordPress) and WordPress.org (a freely downloadable self-hosted version).

Cloud Computing Device

—These are applications that do not need any installation and are readily available over the
internet.
—You just need an internet connection to access it. The term cloud computing means, “for the
delivery of hosted services over the internet.”

What is Cloud Computing?

—The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage,
and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

>Google Drive
—It is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google that allows user to store
files across devices and share files.

>OneDrive
—Is the Microsoft cloud service that connects you to all your files.

>Drop box
—It is a file hosting service operated by the American company that offers cloud storage, file,
synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

Lesson 8: Collaboration ICT Development

What is Online Collaboration Tools?

—are apps, software programs, or platforms that help businesses and their people streamline the
creative process, and work together more effectively, and efficiently.

Online Collaboration Tools

>Communication
—There are many ways to communicate through the Internet, and new tools and platforms are
always being released in the market. The following are some of the most common tools used
when communicating with people.
1. E-mail
—One of the oldest forms of online communication, and the most widely used service to
date, e-mail can help you create a message to a recipient and send files as an attachment.
2. Chat and Instant Messaging
—Instant messaging (IM) is a faster and simpler alternative to e-mail. Conversations are
held in virtual “chat rooms,” generally among family, friends, colleagues or acquaintances.
Public chat rooms also exist online.
 3. Voice Chat
—You can make free or inexpensive calls using the Internet. Some IM and chat services
include voice chat, and several other services may also allow you to call any phone
number.
—These services use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which delivers voice
communications and multimedia sessions via the internet.

4. Video Chat
—is a type of instant messaging service that also makes use of audio and video features. It
is commonly used between two or more people. Video calls held by more than two people
are called video conference calls.

5. Mobile Messaging Apps

—WhatsApp, Viber and WeChat are the three best applications when it comes to Internet
communication. With these apps, users can send messages and make free calls anywhere
in the world.
A. WhatsApp
—It started in 2009 and since then it has become the most popular application in the
instant messaging realm. This application is free for the first year and will cost
specific amount for the succeeding years.

B. Viber
—It is a free instant messaging and calling application. In addition to the basic
features, it also offers a large collection of stickers to tickle up text conversations.
Viber is available on PC and mobile devices.

C. WeChat
—It is operated by Chinese Internet giant Tencent. This application also offers free
exchange of messages, free calls, and allows you to find new friends. Just like Viber,
you can also use stickers to make your conversation livelier.

D. Telegram
—It is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and
speed. It delivers messages faster with no limits on the size of media and chats.

E. Messenger
—It is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and
speed. It delivers messages faster with no limits on the size of media and chats.

>Coordination
—It is much easier to organize a project when every member of the group knows their tasks and
adjusts the way they handle the work accordingly.
—The ability to coordinate with each other is an essential part of project management. The
following tools enable you to prepare a list of deliverables, schedules, milestones and assignment
of tasks assigned, which you can then track later on.

1. Bitrix24
—It is a project management system that provides free storage of up to 5GB. Users can
avail of larger storage by upgrading for a premium account.
 2. MindMeister
—It is a collaborative web-based tool that enables users to create mind maps for
brainstorming and planning activities and share them with others. It also offers a number
of other features such as templates, SWOT analysis, project planning and live group chat.

3.Google Calendar
—Scheduling meetings, appointments, and conferences in one place is now simple with
Google Calendar. This scheduling tool is downloadable for both Android and Apple devices.
—Accessing Google Calendar by using your Gmail account is also possible so you can keep
track all the important events in your life, manage your time wisely, and improve your
productivity.
Online Group Collaborative Tools
>Web Portal
—A web portal is a website that contains information from different sources and place them in
one location in a uniform way.

>Yahoo
—It offers a web portal where news, email, weather, etc. are found in one page.

>Facebook Groups
—It allows you to create a group page that will allow people in your group to communicate your
ideas.

>WordPress
—It allows you to multiple contributors for a single blog.

>Google Workspace
—It is formerly known as Google Apps and later G Suite, is a collection of cloud computing,
productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google.

>Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

—A word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation program respectively, all part of free, web
based software office suite offered by Google where users can collaborate through
comments/suggestions options within the application.

>Microsoft Office Online

—It allows multiple people to work on different office files.

>Microsoft Yammer
—It offers companies to have their own social network that allows sharing and managing
content.

>Trello
—It offers an online to-do checklist for your entire team.

Here are some things you need to consider to decide if it is a good collaborative tool:
—Easy to use and to set-up.
—It has features that will fit your purpose.
—Ability to upload documents.
—Has security features
Lesson 9: Multimedia in ICT
Multimedia
—It is any computer information that can be represented through audio, video, and animation
integrated with any traditional media. This information can be represented, stored, transmitted
and processed digitally.
Multimedia in ICT
—Multimedia devices have an almost innumerous variety of applications. They are used in home
entertainment systems and used as educational tools aside from its primary purpose -data
processing and storage.
Uses in Multimedia
>Edutainment
—is a term that pertains to the combination of education and entertainment which also finds
acceptance to children of today who are exposed to games and entertainment.
>Business Communication
—Multimedia also offers critical services in the business world. The quality of business
communication is enhanced by multimedia. Product promotion, consumer information, and
communication to employee can be done with multimedia. Multimedia Promotes Your Business.
>Entertainment
—multimedia use is very much in any modern movies and animations to develop special effects
and virtual worlds. Computer games also use enormous multimedia content and features to
make them more exciting and relevant. Interactive multimedia is a term applied to multimedia
applications that allow users to take part, contribute and participate in online games.
>Public Access of Information
—The availability of multimedia applications allowed public access to information either online or
offline. Tourist information system, hospital information system, navigational system, and
electronic publishing are some examples of uses of multimedia for information dissemination.
Multimedia Content
>Videos
—Through video hosting sites, you can take a video and show it to the world. (e.g., YouTube)
>Sound or Music
—If videos are too much for you, you can always record sounds. You can now share your sound
bites to the entire world. (e.g., Soundcloud)
>Online Games
—online 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. (e.g., Adventure
Quest, Farmville, Candy Crush)
>Online Tests
–Online survey forms and tests that automatically display the results when finished. (e.g., Online
IQ, and Personality Tests)
>Courseware
—online courses that simulate the classroom online (e.g., E-Learning Courses using a Learning
Management System)
>Podcasts
—An episodic series of audio or text files streamed online. (e.g., Stuff You Should Know, TED
Talks, The Starters, EarBiscuits)
>Vodcasts
—An episodic series of video streamed online (e.g., YouTube series/shows like (Video Game High
School, Good Mythical Morning)

Multimedia Basic Elements:

1. Text
—Characters used to construct sentences, phrases and paragraphs.
2. Graphic
—Digital representation of no-textual material, such as illustrations, charts or images.
3. Animation
—It is a set of graphics that generate an impression of motion.
4. Video
—A digital image that is played at speeds of 15-30 frames per second and provides the illusion of
continuous motion.
5. Audio
—It is some sort of rhythm, voice or some other sound.

Two Categories of Multimedia:

1. Linear Multimedia
—It does not feature any sort of navigational abilities and it progresses in chronological order. It
is useful to transmit a fixed message.

2. Non-linear Multimedia
—It allows free movement around all aspects of the multimedia in any order.

What is Web Design?

—is a process of planning, creating, and maintaining websites, designing an effective website
requires more than just gathering relevant information and sharing it on the web.

What makes a Good Web Design?

—Web designers do not only focus on how the website looks and feels but also about how it
works and responds. They incorporate not just the elements of a website but they also make
these functional, highly responsive, quick, and useful.

Determine Your Audience

—You need to identify who your audience is and how they behave before developing the
websites. Keep in mind that different users have different need and expectations. For instance,
two people looking at the latest smartphone reviews might expect different sets of information.

Information is Key
—People who access the Web are often in search of information. This means that, when most
people come to your website they have goal in mind. They have either reached your website
from a search engine or by following a link from another website instead of knowing your actual
URL.
—Make it a point to help those people who come to your site quickly find their need.
—It is important to make the nature of your website clear to your visitors.
—Each page of your site must have a descriptive page heading with relevant pictures and
summary text (where applicable)
Lesson 10: ICT as a Platform for Change

The role of ICT in the Recent History

1. EDSA (People Power Revolution)
—The revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of Radyo Veritas.
—Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of the President Ferdinand
Marcos.
—A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving 2 Million
Filipinos from different sectors. The radio broadcast helped change the course of history.
Without it, the Filipinos would not have been moved in action.

2. EDSA DOS
—This is also known as 2001 EDSA Revolution, happened during January 17 to 21, 2001. It was
fueled after 11 prosecutors of President Joseph Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial. As
a result, the crowd in EDSA grew over the course of a few days through text brigades. Like the
first people power revolution, EDSA Dos would have not been successful without the text
brigades.

3. Million People March

—This is a series of protests that mainly took the place in Luneta Park from August 11 to 26,
2013. There were also several demonstrations that happened around key cities in the Philippines
and some locations overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of Priority Development Assistance
Fund (PDAF). Though dubbed as the Million People March, the total number of attendees only
around 400,000. Despite that, it was still considered as success and clearly demonstrated how
powerful social media campaigns are. The organizers are the promoters of the Million People
March used Facebook and Change.org as their mediums.

4. Yolanda People Finder

—Recent storms in the Philippines history gave birth to the People finder database powered by
Google. During Typhoon Yolanda last November 3-11, 2013— 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 adapted by more organizations to help people track relatives during calamities.

Change.org
—is dubbed as the “World’s platform for change” where anyone from the online community can
create a petition and ask others to sign it.
—Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital
signatures on a petition.
—The petition to have death row convict Mary Jane Veloso released was the fastest ever-
growing petition from the Philippines with over 250,00 signatories from over 135 countries.

What is an ADVOCACY?
—It is a process of supporting and enabling people to:
>Express their views and concerns
> Access information and services
>Defend and promote their rights and responsibilities
Digital Citizenship
—Refers to the utilization of information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics,
and government.
>Engage positively
>Know your online world
>Choose consciously

Lesson 11: Developing ICT Project for Social Change

Concept Paper
—It is a document used to convince a panel of potential funders to help a product, program, or
service become a reality.

Concept Paper Elements:

1. Introduction
— This includes your mission and vision and a brief introduction of your project/campaign.

2. Purpose
—This includes the reason why the project/campaign is worth your sponsor’s time, effort and
money.

3. Description
—This includes all the necessary information about the project.
—It involves the website/s or page you are going to produce and the purpose of each and how
they work in unison.

4. Support
—This contains the budget needed for the project, though some concept papers do not specify
any amount requested from the sponsor.

5. Contact Information
—This includes information on how the group can be contacted.

Your project/campaign must meet the SMART criteria:

S—Specific
M—Measurable
A—Attainable
R—Realistic
T—Time-bounded

ICT Project Planning

1. Planning
2. Development
3, Release and Promotion
4. Maintenance
1. Planning this involves the following tasks:
–Conceptualizing your project
–Researching on available data about your topic
–Setting deadlines and meetings
–Assigning people to various tasks
–Finding a web or blog host
–Creating a site map for your website
—Listing down all applications that you need including web apps
—Funding (if applicable)
2. Development
—It involves the actual creation of the website(s) / page, this involves the production of images,
infographics etc.
3. Release and Promotion
—It involves that actual release of the website / page for public view and promotion.
4. Maintenance
—It involves responding to feedback of your website / page visitors and continuing to improve
the website/page.

Different Behaviors in Social Media

The Ultras
—check feeds dozens of times a day. Will Happily, admit their obsession.
The Deniers
—Social media do not control their lives, but get anxious when unable to access networks.
The Virgins
—taking first tentative steps in social media.
The Peacocks
—Popularity contest, high numbers of followers, fans, likes and retweets.
The Lurkers
—hiding in the shadows of cyberspace.
—Watches what others are saying, but rarely (if ever) participate themselves.
The Ranters
—mock and mid in face-to-face conversations.
—Highly opinionated online.
The Changelings
—adopt completely new personality online so no one knows their real identities.
The Ghosts
—create anonymous profiles, for fear of giving out personal information to strangers.
The Approval Seekers
—constantly check feeds and timelines after posting.
—Worry until people respond.
The Quizzers
—asking questions allow them to start conversations.
The Dippers
—access pages infrequently, often going days, if even weeks without posting.