EMPOWERMENT
TECHNOLOGY
QUARTER 1 – MODULE 4:
ONLINE ICT PLATFORMS AS TOOLS FOR ICT
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION
We are on the Information Age on which information seems so easy to
reach. One of the tools that we usually use if you need to answer a question
from your subject is a website which can we use if we are online. A website or
web site is a set of related resources from the web. These resources were
considered as web pages and multimedia (e.g.: videos, music, images).
Activity 1: Website or application(apps) you are using.
Websites or applications are now
Website
accessible through smartphones.
Example: Shopee
It is up us users on how we use it.
In your smartphone or computer list 1
ten(10)websites or applications you
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usually use or visit and identify the
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best feature that you like on it.
The first item listed on the table is an 4
example to guide you on this activity.
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ABSTRACTION
On the listed items you presented in our previous activity, it shows that
website is a tool for information and entertainment. However, there are websites
that offers you more than just reading articles or listening to your music, these
are what we call online platform-enabled website. 5
A platform-enabled website or online platform gives a feature on which
allows to manipulate the content of the website. Most of the online platforms
requires you to register in order to publish, manipulate, organize, or even delete
a certain web content. As a Senior High School student, you are expected to
know the different online platform as this would help you in different task like
connect people, stream your daily activity, shop online, or even creating a
website of your own.
Before I introduce the different type of online platforms which you can use.
Let's take a close look on how technologies are use these days. Take a look at
the picture below.
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The picture on this page shows that each one of us has skill of being an information
literate since information can be reach just a click away. It is only up to us to how
we create or how we evaluate the information that we garnered from online
resources. Here are the three types of online platforms:
1. Social Media Platforms
This platform allows you to create your personal account or profile. After you
register on this website, it will allow you to create pages or even groups where you
can share content and ideas. Social Media platforms enables you to connect
yourself to other users and get updates on their news feed. Facebook, Instagram
and Twitter are examples of Social Media platforms.
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2. Blogging Platforms
A platform on where a writer or even
a group of writers can share views on an
individual subject. It is comparable to a
newsletter where you can add menus,
designs or even multimedia of a subject.
Blogger is an example of blogging site. If
you love to write or you want to share
ideas online, blogging platforms is the
perfect tool you can use.
3. Content Management System or CMS
One of the feature of this platform is
that you can publish your own website
and manage its content through intranet
or in a single computer. This is a software
where you can easily create, update,
organize, and publish the content of your
website. A popular example of CMS is
WordPress.
Web page is designed for World Wide Web on which it is consider as the
document inside it. Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Apple's
Safari are web browsers which you can use in order to access a web page.
Nowadays, web pages serves as an important role in the business world.
Web pages allows businesses to showcase their company and advertise their
products. Even social media sites allows users to boost their popularity, this will
help the users to promote their business or advocacy to other users online.
If you're planning to create a web page of your own, you can use a website
builder like WordPress, Wix or Adobe Dreamweaver. These website builders are
very powerful tool and user-friendly on which you can create website by just
dragging and dropping the elements of your website. However, there are
certain elements and principles in building your own website. Below are the
seven possible elements of a modern web design
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1. Text - this is a mandatory element of a web page. However, visitors
gotdistracted about the font family of the text on website. So while you are
designing your website, make sure that to choose well the font family and type
that you need to use on your design and make the text is clear and in readable
size.
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2. Graphics/ Illustrations - make sure your images or illustrations are not
pixelatedor must be on good quality. There are time that text give description
to an image, so you make that these two elements are well arranged.
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3. White space - having a crowded website, it is very hard to direct the
attention ofyour vistor's eye. These white space gives your website a room to
breathe.
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4. Links - links or hyperlinks allows user to jump to another site or page that
isrelated of to your site.
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5. Color - the colors you use in your design is a very important aspect. There
aretimes that colors become visually distracting to your viewers. As some
web designers do, they use the company logo of their client as their color
reference on their website.
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With the use of elements of web design will make your website more
appealing to your users but you need to make sure that your website is
functional, responsive and useful. To create a usable and effective website,
follow the basic principles of an effective web design.
A. Portable Design - website designmust be portable and accessible. Your need
to must compatible with other operating system and web browsers. You should
also design your website on which it can be access to a different computer
platforms or devices especially for those visitors who uses mobile device to
access a website.
B. Design for Low Bandwidth - not alluser who are online are connected to a high-
speed internet connection. In designing a website you need to avoid large graphics
or animations as the users may leave the site if downloading is slow.
C. Direction - identify the order ofimportance of the various elements and
place them in a sequence where the eye moves and perceives the things it
sees. There should be consistent layout and structure.
D. Simplicity - the more option youplace in your site, the more difficult it is for a
visitor to make a decision and more time is required to browse through them. as
what they usually say "simplicity is beauty".
E. Regular testing –every device orproject needs maintenance, same as your
website. Website should be regularly upgraded, updated and tested so that
problems will be quickly resolved. Visitors who have encounter any errors like
problems in loading or viewing in your website will not hold on.
