Department of Education

Region VII, Central Visayas

Division Office of Cebu Province
District of San Fernando II

SANGAT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Sangat, San Fernando, Cebu

SELF – LEARNING HOME TASK (SLHT)

Subject: Empowerment Technologies Semester: 2nd - Finals
Level: 12 Week: 1 and 2

Name: _________________________________ Section: _________________ Date: _______________

MELC: Apply the use of online creation tools, platforms, and applications to effectively communicate messages
related to specific purpose
Competency Code: CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-Ig-h-11

Knowledge: Identify the use of online platforms

Skills: Create and access account of some online platforms for content development and search
Attitudes: Appreciate the existence of online platforms of today for specific purpose

A. READINGS/DISCUSSIONS
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Task 1:
Directions: Look at the image above and answer the following questions. Use a sheet of paper in
writing your answer.
1. What did you see in the above image?
2. Were you able to use or access some of those? Why?
3. What is the advantage of online creation tools or platforms that we could use for content
development or communication?
ONLINE PLATFORMS FOR
ICT CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
What is an online platform?
 Are technologies that are grouped to be used as a base upon which other
applications processes or technologies are developed
 Defined as a digital service that facilitates interactions between two or more distinct but
interdependent sets of users (whether firms or individuals) who interact through the service via
the Internet
Examples of Per Category Online Platforms
 Presentation / Visualization
 Cloud Computing
 Social Media
 Web Page Creation
 File Management
 Mapping
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PRESENTATION / VISUALIZATION
- Communicates information clearly and efficiently via statistical graphics, plots, and
information graphics
- Examples:
Prezi – helping to reinvent the art of presentation
Zoho – an online project management app that
helps you plan your work and keep track
of your progress
Slide Share – to build quickly from concise,
well – presented content from top experts
MindMeister – an online mind – mapping tool that
lets your capture, develop and share ideas visually
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 personal computer
- Examples:
Google Drive – keep all work in one secure place with online file storage
Dropbox – keeps your files safe, synced and easy to share

SOCIAL MEDIA
- Are computer – mediated tools that allow people, companies, and other organizations to
create, share or exchange information, career, interests, ideas, and pictures or videos in
virtual communities and networks
- Examples:
Twitter – online social networking service that enable users to send and read
short 140 – character messages called “tweets”
Facebook – is for profit – corporation and online networking services, allows
you to share post, videos, pictures, links, and other multimedia content
Tumblr – a micro – blogging platform and a social networking website
WEB PAGE CREATION
- Encompasses a number of important elements including color, layout, and overall graphical
appearance
- Examples:
Wix – a cloud – based web development platform that allow users to create
HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of their online drag and drop
tools
Weebly – a web – hosting service featuring a drag and drop website builder
- Web Design Principles and Elements (Basic)
Consider the audience and goals
Advisable to plan the site on a paper first
Provide a rich set of links within the site
Don’t hide important information
Provide opportunities for interaction
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Make the site’s homepage as useful starting point as possible
 The site is platform independent
Consider the needs of the viewers

FILE MANAGEMENT
- Is the storing, sorting, naming, and handling computer files
- Examples:
Zamzar – web application to convert files
Word2pdf – convert Word files to PDF (Portable Document Format) with this
online tool
MAPPING
- A transformation taking the points of one space into the points of the same or another space
- Example:
Google Map – a desktop web mapping service developed by Google

Content Management Systems (CMS)

 A computer application (sometimes online or browser based) that allows you to publish, edit,
manipulate, organize, and delete web content
 Used in blogs, news websites, and shopping
Blog
 A discussion or informational website published on the web consisting of discrete, often informal
diary – style text entries (“posts”)
 Posts are typically displayed in chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first at
the top the web page
 Examples:
WordPress (wordpress.com)
Blogger (blogger.com or blogspot.com)
Blog.com
Medium.com
Squarespace.com
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
 The process of optimizing web pages and their content to be easily discoverable by users
searching for terms relevant to your website.
 The term SEO also describes the process of making web pages easier for search engine
indexing software, known as "crawlers," to find, scan, and index your site.
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B. EXERCISES
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Direction: Answer the following questions below:
1. In your own understanding, what is online platform?
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2. Enumerate the per category of online platform, give an example and use of each one.

No. Online Platform Example/s Use

3. If online platform or online creation tools are not existing today, what would have been our
present way of content development, our communication, and presentation?
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Directions: Read each items carefully and determine the word being described in each sentences.
Write the letter on the blanks provided before each number.
____1. Are computer – mediated tools that allow people, companies, and other organizations to
create, share or exchange information, career, interests, ideas, and pictures or videos
in
virtual communities and networks
a. Mapping b. Social Media c. Visualization d. File
Management
____2. Storing, managing, and processing of data or file using a network of remote servers
hosted on
the internet
a. Social Media b. Web Page Creation c. File Management d. Cloud
Computing
____3. Is the storing, sorting, naming, and handling computer files
a. Visualization b. Presentation c. File Management d. Mapping
____4. A computer application that allows you to publish, edit, manipulate, organize, and delete
web
content
a. CMS b. WWW c. SEO d. URL
____5. A discussion or informational website published on the web consisting of discrete, often
informal diary – style text entries (“posts”)
a. Blog b. Multimedia c. Forums d. Shoutout
____6. A type of social media that is for profit – corporation and online networking services,
allows
you to share post, videos, pictures, links, and other multimedia content
a. Twitter b. Facebook c. YouTube d. Prezi
____7. Describes the process of making web pages easier for search engine indexing software,
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as "crawlers," to find, scan, and index your site
a. CMS b. SEO c. WWW d. URL
____8. Which of the following are online platform/s for web page creation?
a. Wix b. Wabble c. Weebly d. Both a and c
____9. An online project management app that helps you plan your work and keep track your
progress
a. Prezi b. Zoho c. Zamzar d. Dropbox
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____10. The following are the basic design principles and elements of web page creation, which
one is
not?
a. Advisable to plan the site on a paper first
b. Provide a rich set of links within the site
c. Hides important information
d. Provide opportunities for interaction

C. ASSESSMENT/APPLICATION/OUTPUTS (Please refer to DepEd Order No. 31, s. 2020)

Direction: Do the following activities.
A. Gmail Account and Google Drive
- Create a Google Mail account.
- Access your account’s google drive and print screen it in a bond paper and produce a hard
copy.
- Attach it as an output.
B. SlideShare Account
- Using your Gmail account, create a SlideShare account.
- Log – in and search for a PowerPoint Presentation about Empowerment Technologies.
- Print screen your SlideShare account with the searched PPT file and produce a hard copy.
- Attach it as an output.
- Note: No need to print the PowerPoint Presentation that you searched. Only the main
page.
C. Facebook Post
- Log – in your Facebook account.
- Post a slogan about empowering students with the technology of today.
- Print screen the post and produce a hard copy.
- Attach it as an output.

D. SUGGESTED ENRICHMENT/REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITY

Direction: Do what is asked.
Materials to use: Short bond paper and coloring materials
Questions: If you are going to create or develop an online platform or online creation tool, what
would it be? What would be the features of that online tool?
Answer:
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Tasks: Using the short bond paper and coloring materials, design an icon or logo of your online
creation tool or online platform. Briefly discuss why you have come – up with the design.

REFERENCES:
 Department of Education Curriculum and Instruction Strand, K to 12 Most Essential Learning
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 www.youtube.com
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Accessed by May 2021 www.who.int (infographic)

Prepared by:
ROYNEIL ROBERT CABALAN
Subject Teacher

Checked by: SONIA M. LAURONAL

Master Teacher I

GUIDE
For the Teacher: Advise the students to read the reading and discussion portion before they attempt to
answer the practice exercises. Going through the parts sequentially will help them understand easily the
topic.

For the Learner: Read through the self-learning home task from the first part to the last part. Doing so,
will help you understand better the topic.

For the Parent/Home Tutor: Assist your child and make sure that he/she reads the self-learning
home task from beginning to end to ensure proper understanding of the concepts.
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