EMPOWERMENT

TECHNOLOGY

TEACHER’S GUIDE
 CHAPTER 1
ICT APPLICATIONS, RESEARCH,
PRODUCTIVITY, SAFETY, AND ETHICS
 Lesson Information and Communications
1 Technology
I. Objectives:
 Compare and contrast the nuances of varied online platforms, sites, and
contents to best achieve specific class objectives or address situational
challenges.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 2-13
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Show to the class a picture of different technologies (computer, ATM,
mobile phone, etc.).
 Ask the students if they are familiar with the pictures shown.
 Ask the students the purpose of those technologies in their daily lives.
 Let the students justify their answers by giving different scenarios on
how they become useful.
 Summarize the answers of the students.
 Explain how important ICT is and how it makes our lives easier.
B. Lesson Proper
 Begin the discussion by asking the students why ICT is the main
method of communication.
 Summarize the answers of the students and ask the use of ICT in their
daily lives.
 Discuss the use of ICT in the following:
 Education  Manufacturing
 Telecommunications Industries
 Commerce  Banking
 Sports and Recreation  Mathematics
 Arts, Design, and  Engineering and
Music Architecture
 Media and Visual Arts  Agriculture
 Health Services  Writing and Publishing
 Science and Research  Military Applications
 Travel and Hotel  Weather Analysis
Bookings  Space Exploration
 Business and  Aeronautics
Accounting
  Discuss the current state of ICT, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0.
 Ask the students on how the users participate in the Web.
 Discuss the changes in technology.
 Compare the technology before and the technology used today.
 Ask the students what they prefer to use and why.
 Show a picture of different social media symbols (Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, and Snapchat), then ask if they are familiar with it.
 Ask the students the purpose of the given social media sites, and then
explain their functions and importance.
 Discuss the ICT as mobile media and Assistive media.
 Ask the students about their insight about the quote from Marc
Andreessen, “If you can program it, then it’s a platform. If you can’t
then it’s not.”
 Summarize the answers of the student, and then give an additional
idea about the meaning of the quote.
 Discuss the online platforms and applications that can be used in
creating online presentation, web page, newsletter, infographics and
other multimedia.
C. Value Formation
 Ask the students how the world would be without an ICT.
 Emphasize the importance of ICT as means of communication and
processing of data.
IV. Evaluations:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 13.
 Evaluate the students based on their written outputs.

Lesson
2 Safety, Security, and Ethics

I. Objectives:
 Apply online safety, security, ethics, and etiquette standards and practice
in the use of ICTs in relation to their specific professional tracks.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages14-20
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Start the discussion by showing the students a picture of a padlock.
  Ask the students about their idea on the given picture and its purpose.
 Summarize the answers of the students, and then give the importance
of being safe to their valuables as an introduction to the topic.
B. Lesson Proper
 Begin the discussion by asking the students if they have an account
online (such as email, facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.) and if they
created security password on their personal computers.
 Discuss the online safety and security.
 Ask the students about their ideas on how to be safe when using
Internet.
 Discuss the dangers on the internet and its types.
 Ask the students if they have personal computers at home and how
they secure their files in it.
 Discuss the windows security and its importance.
 Ask the students what editing options are in user accounts.
 Discuss the following steps in:
 Changing and adding user accounts
 Creating a new password
 Discuss the screensaver security and the three important security
settings.
 Ask the students what the ten commandments of God are. Let the
students enumerate them.
 Ask the students to define the words ethics and etiquette.
 Summarize their answers and emphasize their importance.
 Discuss the commandments for Computer Ethics.
C. Value Formation
 It is very important to be safe and secure when entering the online
society. We must be conscious in our actions and always remember
the commandments of computer ethics.
 It is also important to secure our files in our personal computer
because there’s a possibility that they can be stolen by others.
 Emphasize the importance of being safe using security and etiquette
on online.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 20.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 Lesson
3 Online Research

I. Objectives:
 Use the Internet as a tool for credible research and information gathering
to best achieve specific class objectives or address situational challenges.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 21-25
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Write on the board the word Research. Then ask the students what
comes in their mind when they hear or read it.
 Cite an example of research.
 Ask the students their insights about the given word and then
emphasize the importance of online research.
 Summarize the answers of the students and relate them to the lesson.
B. Lesson Proper
 Introduce the online search and research skills.
 Ask the students about their idea in contextual online search.
 Discuss the steps in making contextualized online search.
 Ask the students about their idea on how they will improve their
research skills.
 Discuss the following different skills that need to obtain developed in
improving research skills;
 Critical thinking
 Analytical skill
 Problem solving capability
 Organized data mining
 Research presentation
 Creativity and developed imagination
 Computer literacy
 Ask the students if they are familiar with the “Advance Search” in
Google.
 Discuss on how to do the advance search.
 Ask the students if how they will know if the information is from satirical
source.
 Discuss the content published by satirical sites.
  Give an example of satire news that went viral on the internet.
C. Value Formation
 Ask the students the importance of improved research skills in
conducting an online research.
 Use online resources for effective and improved research.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 25.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.

Lesson
4 Applied Productivity Tools
I. Objectives:
 Use common productivity tools effectively by maximizing advanced
applications.
 Use advanced tools and techniques in common productivity and software
applications in developing ICT content.
 Create an original or derivative ICT content to effectively communicate or
present date or information related to specific professional tracks.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 26-46
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Ask the students on how the ICT contents (such as calculating
spreadsheet of statistics, layout of catalogue for creative works,
business card design, etc.) help them in their chosen professional
tracks.
 Relate their answers as introduction to the selection.
B. Lesson Proper
 Ask the students about their insights on the Microsoft applications they
used.
 Ask the students the purpose of the given applications in their studies.
 Ask the students if they’re familiar in using MS Publisher in creating
Mail Merge.
 Discuss the purpose of Mail Merge and how the students will use it.
 Use the MS Publisher to create a Mail Merge.
 Ask the students about their ideas on MS Word.
  Discuss the basic functions of MS Word and how to use MS Word to
generate labels.
 Use the MS Word to generate labels.
 Ask the students about their insights on MS PowerPoint.
 Summarize the answers of the students, and then ask them to give an
example.
 Discuss the purpose of MS PowerPoint and its function.
 Use MS PowerPoint to create custom animations.
 Ask them how their presentation will be more effective and creative to
the viewers.
 Summarize their answers, and then discuss the use of PowerPoint to
create custom animations.
 Ask the students about their ideas on MS Excel.
 Use as an example the computations you used to compute their
grades using an MS Excel.
 Discuss its purpose and its convenience in computation.
 Discuss the different formulas in computation.
 Enumerate the parts of a formula.
 Discuss the different functions of the MS Excel.
 Use MS Excel for computations.
C. Value Formation
 Ask the students about the importance of different computer
applications in developing ICT content.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 46.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 CHAPTER 2
IMAGING, WEB DESIGNING, AND
ONLINE PLATFORMS
 Lesson
1 Imaging and Design for Online

I. Objectives:
 Evaluate existing websites and resources based on the principles of
layout, graphic and visual message design.
 Use image manipulation technique on existing images to change or
enhance their current state to communicate a message for a specific
purpose.
 Create an original or derivative ICT content to effectively communicate a
visual message in an online environment related to specific professional
tracks.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 48-78
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Present to the students a black and white photo and a colored photo.
 Let them observe the difference of the two pictures.
 Ask them on how they will enhance the black and white photo into a
colored photo.
 Summarize their answers and ask them what the better photo is.
 Let the answer be the intro to the topic.
B. Lesson Proper
 Ask the students an idea about the sources of photos and graphics.
 Ask them the file formats used depending on the sources.
 Summarize their answers, and then discuss the different sources of
photos and graphics.
 Discuss the online digital file formats for images and text.
 Let the students enumerate the types of raster image formats, types of
vector image formats and their descriptions, then give additional
information.
 Let the students define the word LAYOUT and its importance.
 Summarize their answers, and then connect to the topic for basic
principles of graphics and layout.
 Discuss the following to be considered in having good layout:
 Symmetrical  Asymmetrical
  Text  Consistency
 Image  Color and shape
 Proximity and  Emphasis
harmony
 Ask the students about their prior knowledge in manipulating images
using their devices.
 Discuss the techniques of image manipulation and combining text,
graphics, and images.
 Ask an example of offline software for basic image manipulation.
 Summarize the answers and give an additional example.
 Discuss the functions of the following:
 GIMP
- Use GIMP for image manipulation
 Adobe Photoshop
- Use Adobe Photoshop to edit photos
 Google Photos
- Use Google Photos for image hosting
C. Value Formation
 Ask the students about the purpose and importance of the given
application in enhancing images and graphics for the development of
ICT content.
IV. Evaluation
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 78.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.

Lesson Online Platform Tools for ICT

2 Content Development

I. Objectives:
 Create an original or derivative ICT content using online creation tools,
platforms, and applications to effectively communicate messages related
to specific professional tracks.
 Evaluate existing online creation tools, platforms and applications in
developing ICT content for specific professional tracks.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 79-126
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Show a sample presentation to the class using Prezi.
 Let the students evaluate the presentation.
 Ask the students about the convenience and creativity using this
application.
 Summarize the answers of the students as an introduction for the
selection.
B. Lesson Proper
 Ask the students to give an example of online platforms in developing
ICT content.
 Discuss the nature and purposes of online platforms and applications.
 Ask the students the purpose of presentation that you showed in
developing ICT content.
 Discuss the examples of presentation tools.
 Ask the students if they are familiar with Prezi, Slideshare, and
Mindmeister.
 Discuss the use and functions of the following applications:
 Use Prezi, Slideshare and MindMeister to create a presentation.
 Use Dropbox for file storage.
 Use Gmail and Google drive.
 Use Tumblr for social networking.
 Use Google drive for file management.
 Use Google maps.
 Use Google forms.
 Use WordPress to create a blog.
 Use FL studio for music production.
C. Value Formation
 Ask the students about the purpose and importance of online platforms
tools for ICT content development.
IV. Evaluation
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 126.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 Lesson
3 Web Design and ICT

I. Objectives:
 Apply web design principles and elements using online creation tools,
platforms, and applications to communicate a message for a specific
purpose in specific professional tracks.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 127-159
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Present an example of website, and then explain its content and
purpose.
 Summarize the answers of the students as an introduction to the topic.
B. Lesson Proper
 Ask the students to give an example of websites. Let them describe
the design of the websites.
 Discuss the webpage.
 Let the students share their insights about the importance of website in
business.
 Summarize their answers, and then emphasize the main purpose of
the website that is being used in business.
 Discuss the basic web design principles and elements.
 Explain WYSIWYG acronym for “what you see is what you get”.
 Discuss the examples of WYSIWYG platforms HTML editor.
 Discuss on how to create webpage using Wix and Adobe
Dreamweaver.
 Use Wix to create web page.
 Use Dreamweaver to create web page.
C. Value Formation
 Emphasize the importance of websites in establishing your business.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 159.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 Lesson
4 Multimedia and ICT

I. Objectives:
 Explore the principles of interactivity and rich content in the context of
Web 2.0 and he participation of the user in the online experience.
 Understand how rich media content and interactivity affect and change
user experience in the delivery and consumption of ICT content.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 160-166
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Group the class into five; assign a leader to each group.
Instruction: Prepare a presentation on how they will use the
multimedia to establish the assigned field. For example: In education,
they use multimedia to publish the new offered professional tracks for
senior high school in their university. Allot three (3) minutes to each
group for their presentation.
1st group – Education
2nd group – Entertainment
3rd group - Business
4th group – Medicine
5th group – Government
 Relate the activity as an introduction to the lesson.
B. Lesson Proper
 Begin the discussion by asking the students how online environment
affects humans.
 Discuss the multimedia and ICT.
 Ask them to enumerate the uses of multimedia in their lives.
 Discuss the multimedia and interactivity.
 Discuss the types and multimedia content.
 Ask the students about their idea of digital multimedia. Then,
summarize their answers and give further explanations.
 Ask the students if they are familiar with the digital and video camera
and where they use it.
  Summarize their answers and then discuss the different types of digital
and video camera.
 Discuss the sources of videos.
 Ask the students if they are familiar with the audio and video file
formats. Show a file format of an audio as an example.
 Discuss the different common audio and video file formats.
 Discuss the different common audio and video players.
C. Value Formation
 Emphasize on how multimedia affect and change the user experience
in the delivery of ICT content.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 166.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 CHAPTER 3
ICT PROJECTS, PLATFORMS, AND
COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT
 Lesson
1 Infographics and ICT Projects

I. Objectives:
 Identify a local or regional cause or issue for Social Change related to
specific professional tracks that can be addressed or tackled using an ICT
Project for Social Change.
 Analyze how target or intended users and audiences are expected to
respond to the proposed ICT Project for Social Change on the basis of
content, value and user experience.
 Integrate rich multimedia content in design and development to best
enhance the user experience and deliver content of an ICT Project for
Social Change.
 Develop a working prototype of an ICT Project for social change.
 Understand how to work with peers and publics/partners for the
development of an ICT project that advocates or mobilizes for a specific
social change or cause.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 168-170
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Write on the board the word Infographics. Then ask the students what
comes in their mind when they hear or read it.
 Cite an example of infographics.
 Ask the students their insights about the given word and then
emphasize the importance of infographics.
 Summarize the answers of the students and relate them to the lesson.
B. Lesson Proper
 Discuss the development of an ICT for social change.
 Ask the students how information hooks the interest of the reader.
 Summarize the answers then discuss the principles of visual message
design using infographics.
 Call some students to explain each principle in creating an
infographics. Finalize their answers by giving additional information.
 Discuss the following principles in creating an infographic:
 Be creative
 Be unique
  Be simple
 Use graphics and visual
 Use the forwarding tool
 Discuss the elements and tools of infographic and call some students
to explain each element and tool.
C. Value Formation
 Emphasize the use of infographics in establishing information for
creating changes in our society.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activities on page 170.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.

Lesson
2 ICT Platforms

I. Objectives:
 Share anecdotes of how people have used ICTs as part of a social
movement, change, or cause to illustrate aspects of digital citizenship.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 171-175
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Show a status post in Facebook. Ask the students what would benefit
them teenagers in posting information online.
 Summarize their answers as an introduction to the topic.
B. Lesson Proper
 Ask the students on how they express themselves if they want
changes in the society.
 Discuss the ICT as major tool in developing communication.
 Ask the students how social media became powerful.
 Finalize their answers, and then give further explanations.
 Discuss the digital citizenship and its elements.
C. Value Formation
 Emphasize the importance of ICT as major tool for social change.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activities on page 175.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 Lesson
3 Collaborative Development

I. Objectives:
 Evaluate the quality, value, and appropriateness of peer’s existing or
previously developed ICT content, in relation to the theme or intended
audience/viewer of an ICT project.
 Share and showcase existing or previously developed material in the form
of a collaboratively designed newsletter or blog site intended for a specific
audience or viewer.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 176-181
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Show two pictures of scenario below and let them observe the
difference and advantages of being in the situation.
1st picture – doing an activity alone
2nd picture – doing an activity with the group
 Summarize their answers as intro to the topic.
B. Lesson Proper
 Show leaflets or newspaper to the class and an article on the internet.
 Let them compare the most convenient source of information.
 Finalize their answers, and then discuss the platforms to host
newsletter and similar ICT contents.
 Discuss the collaborative development of ICT content.
 Let the students share an idea on how they work as a group to achieve
a certain goal.
 Discuss the team structure and dynamics for ICT content.
 Discuss online collaborative tools.
 Call some students to give an idea in each example of collaborative
tools, and then give further explanations after their answers.
 Ask the students about the applications they use to communicate with
people online.
 Enumerate the examples of social chat, and then call some students to
share their ideas on their functions.
 Discuss the different social media that they are using to collaborate
with group of people.
  Discuss the following:
 Cloud-based collaborative tools
 Project management for ICT content
 Curating existing content for use on the web
 Use blog sites in developing ICT content.
C. Value Formation
 Emphasize the importance of creating ICT content and collaborate with
the group.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 181.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 CHAPTER 4
PUBLISHING AND SUSTAINING
PROJECTS
 Lesson
1 Publishing ICT Projects

I. Objectives:
 Demonstrate how online ICT Projects for Social Change are uploaded,
managed, and promoted for maximum audience impact.
 Generate a technical report interpreting data analytics, e.g. Google,
Facebook, or similar traffic data on the general aspects of search visibility,
reach, and virality.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 180-189
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Write on the board the word Upload and Publish. Then ask the
students what come in their minds when they hear or read it.
 Ask the students in what site and how often they upload and publish
their files online.
B. Lesson Proper
 Group the class into five; assign a leader to each group.
Instruction: Create a draft of their chosen topic of their blog. (15
minutes)
 After the activity, discuss the ICT platforms or tools to be used to
publish your blog.
 Discuss the following:
 Uploading and publishing an ICT project
 Website management
 Promotion, traction, and traffic monitoring
 Evaluation through user feedback/interaction
 Use WordPress to publish/manage ICT contents.
C. Value Formation
 Ask the students the importance of ICT projects like posting blogs for
social change.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activities on page 189.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 Lesson Sustaining and Reflecting ICT
2 Projects

I. Objectives:
 Generate a report on the performance of ICT Project for Social Change on
the basis of data gathered from available monitoring tools and evaluating
techniques.
 Create a reflexive piece or output using an ICT tool, platform, or
application of choice on the learning experience undergone during the
semester.
 Learn how to maintain and sustain the operation of an ICT project.
 Understand and reflect on the ICT learning process.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages190-192
2. Printed or digital materials that will show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Write on the board the word Update. Then ask the students what come
in their minds when they hear or read it.
 Ask the students if they update the websites they’d created. Then, why
they need to regularly update their sites.
B. Lesson Proper
 Discuss the updating content and maintaining traffic to an ICT project.
 Ask the students how technologies reach the remote areas that can’t
be accessed and can’t use ICT.
 Finalize the answers of the students then, discuss the monitoring of
social impact of advocacies via an ICT project.
 Ask the students how technology affects their lives. Let them reflect
their current situation and experiences by the use of ICT.
 . Discuss their reflection on the ICT learning process.
C. Value Formation
 Understand and reflect on how ICT learning process helps our society.
IV. Evaluation
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activities on page 192.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.
 CHAPTER 5
ICT APPLICATION IN BUSINESS
 Lesson
1 ICT Application in Business

I. Objectives:
 Learn different information technology applications as a tool in setting up
and managing a business.
 Identify information technology application as a business venture.
II. Resources:
1. Empowerment Technology pages 194-196
2. Printed or digital materials that show the relevance of the topic.
III. Strategies:
A. Preparatory Activities
 Show a business presentation, and then let the students evaluate it.
Share insights.
 Summarize their answers and emphasize the advantages of ICT as a
tool in business.
B. Lesson Proper
 Ask the students about the ICT tools used in business.
 Discuss the ICT tools in business.
 Ask the students the common types of software application to be used
in creating ICT tools for business.
 Give additional information on different software applications.
 Ask the students about the easiest way to establish their own business
and then present the blog sites as the major tool.
 Discuss the ICT as a business enterprise.
 Use ICT in business planning.
C. Value Formation
 Different businesses are booming because of the trends using social
media. They use ICT tools to easily catch the interest of the
consumers.
 Emphasize the importance of using ICT in business.
IV. Evaluation:
 Let the students develop their ideas by doing the activity on page 196.
 Evaluate the students based on their outputs.