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NAME : WEEK: 5- 7
YEAR & SECTION : ______

WHAT I Hello dear learners! Welcome to this module on Empowerment Technology.

This module will help you explore the different technologies and online platforms and
how they can be used effectively. It contains activities that will let you create your
own ICT contents and evaluate existing online creation tools, platforms, and
applications. The module is self – instructional and allows you to learn in your own
space, at your own pace. So, relax and enjoy learning.

Module Content
First Quarter Module 1: ICT in the Context of Global Communication will
give you an introduction into ICT and the different online platforms that may be used
for its specific purpose. It will also tackle on online safety, security, and online
etiquette. You will be able to get tips on how to maximize the power of the Internet to
assist you in your research work through discussing research tools and evaluating
relevant and reliable websites.

Module 2: Productivity Tools will help you on using advanced knowledge in

Word, PowerPoint, and Excel applications. This module will also allow you to critic
on good qualities of web design.

To get the most of this module, here are some reminders for you:
1. Take your time in reading the lessons.

2. Write down points for clarification and discuss this with your teacher.

3. Perform all activities and answer all worksheets.

4. Answer all tests in this module and check against the answer key to measure
how well you have understood the lesson.

5. Answer all activities in a separate sheet of paper or in your notebook.

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 6. Have fun while learning with this module. It will totally be of great use which
ever strand you may belong because ICT is for everybody

Learning Competencies

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Use common productivity tools effectively by maximizing advanced

application techniques

2. Create an original or derivative ICT content to effectively communicate or

present data or information related to specific professional tracks

3. Evaluate existing websites and online resources based on the principles of

layout, graphic, and visual message design.

4. Use image manipulation techniques on existing images to change or enhance

their current state to communicate a message for a specific purpose

5. Create an original or derivative ICT content to effectively communicate a

visual message in an online environment related to specific professional
tracks.

6. 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

7. Create an original or derivative ICT content using online creation tools,

platforms, and applications to effectively communicate messages related to
specific professional track.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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WHAT I NEE

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LESSON 1: Productivity Tools
Productivity Tools also known as productivity software are software that
people use to create and produce professional quality documents, presentations,
databases, charts, graphs, and more (http://productive.tools/why-should-you-use-
productivity-tools/).
The three basic functions of these three productivity tools are:
1. Microsoft Word – writing skills
2. Microsoft Excel – numeracy skills
3. Microsoft PowerPoint – presentation skills
What are my goals?
By the end of this lesson, you are expected to:
1. use common productivity tools effectively by maximizing advanced
application techniques.

2. create an original or derivative ICT content to effectively communicate or

present data or information related to specific professional tracks

You must be excited to flip over the pages and begin with the lessons. But first,
please answer the pre-test to measure what topics have you known so far.

Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer.

Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper or in your notebook.

1. What program is used to create spreadsheets which can later be used
to analyze statistical tool?
A. MS Excel B. MS Word C. MS Publisher D. MS OneNote
2. What MS Excel function adds a range of cells?
A. ADD B. PLUS C. SUM D. TOTAL
3. Which of the following objects can be inserted in your document?
A. Pictures B. Sound C. Chart D. Shapes
4. Which of the following is NOT an animation type?
A. Entrance B. Exit C. Emphasis D. Encore
5. In MS Word, what menu is “Mail Merge” found?
A. Insert B. Format C. Design D. Mailings

Well done! Go to page 28 to check your answers!

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Lesson 1.1: Advance Techniques in Word Processor
Integrating Illustrations in Word Processor

An illustration in MS Word is a visualization or drawing that is in the form of pictures, clip art,
shapes, SmartArt, charts, or screen clippings. You can insert illustrations easily by using the
illustrations group of the Insert Tab.

Steps on Inserting Illustrations in MS Word

Inserting Illustrations: Picture from a File
1. Click the area where you want to
insert the picture in your document.

2. Click Insert Tab then go to Illustrations

group and click Pictures. Insert picture

dialog box will appear.

3. Choose the picture you want to insert

and click insert.

Inserting Illustrations: Shape

1. Click Insert Tab then go to Illustrations group and
click Shapes.

2. Click the shape that you want and click the area in
your document where the shape will be placed.
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Inserting Illustrations: SmartArt

1. Click Insert Tab then go to Illustrations group and click SmartArt. A dialog box will

appear. Select from the list of

SmartArt that you want and click

OK.

Chart

1. Click in the document where you want the Chart to be placed.

2. Click Insert Tab then go to Illustrations group and click Chart. A dialog box will appear.
Select the type of chart that you want and click OK. MS Excel window will appear with
the chart.

3. Edit the data in MS Excel window. You can close Excel after editing the chart.

Steps in Formatting Illustrations in MS Word

Resizing Illustrations

1. Click image and sizing handles will appear.

Click and drag any of the sizing handles.

Format Pictures and Clip art

1. Select the picture that you want to format. A Format tab of the Picture Tools will
appear.

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 Provides various artistic effects

 Adds visual style to the whole picture or clip art, click Picture
Styles
 Click Picture Border to add border.

 Click Picture Effects to add visual effects.

Format Shapes

Click the shape so the Format Tab of the Drawing Tool will appear.

PICTURE TOOLS PURPOSE

 To quickly change the appearance of the shape,

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 click the drop-down arrow of the Shape Styles
then click one of the gallery of shape styles.

You may also click any of these buttons if you want to fill the
shape with color, change the line width or style, or add
effects to the shape.

Format Chart

1. Select the chart that you want to format. Design, Layout, and Format tabs of the Chart
Tools will appear.

2. To edit the data of the chart, click Edit Data of the Data group under
the Design tab. An MS Excel window will appear where you will edit
the data. Close this window as soon as you are done.

3. To add labels to your chart, go to the Layout tab and click the
appropriate button in the Labels group. Note: The steps may vary in
Office 365 version.

ACTIVITY 1.1: Let’s Practice

Directions: Do the following activities as required.

A. Inserting and Editing Shapes: Digital Art

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 Open MS Word and create a simple drawing of a scenery or a person using the available
shapes in MS Word. Be creative. Your work should be printed in a short bond paper. Refer to
the scoring rubric below for your grading.

B. Inserting and Editing Pictures: Travelogue

Open MS Word and create a travelogue of a favorite place you have visited currently or in the
past. Provide descriptions of the places you have been to and what is nice about the place. Embed
pictures using Wrap Text in Tight. Set the brightness at 0% and contrast at 20%. Place a Picture
Border of your choice. Do not put any artistic effects on the pictures. Other requirements: choose a
font style of your choice, size 12, paragraph alignment should be justified, line spacing is 1.15. Your
work should be printed in a short bond paper. Refer to the scoring rubric below for your grading.

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Mail Merge and Label Generation

A Mail Merge is a word processing feature that allows you to easily create multiple letters,
labels, envelopes, nametags, or catalogue documents to group of people as stored in a list in a
database or spreadsheet.

When making Mail Merge, you will need a document using MS Word and a recipient list which
is typically done using MS Excel workbook. But you can also use various sources including MS
Outlook contact list, MS Access database, or a Notepad text document.

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Three Components of the Mail Merge:
1. Main document – the letter which contain the email information for each of the merged
document that can be letter, stationary or template. It also contains the field names which
contains the instructions for carrying out the merge.

2. Data source – it is also called data file which comprises the information to be merged
into a document such as the list of names and addresses to be used in a mail merge.
This must be connected to the data source before it can use the information in it.

3. Merge document – this is also a word processing document that is the generated output
after executing the merge process.

In Mail Merge you need to create the main document, create a data source and merge data
with the document.

STEPS:

Creating a form letter:

1. Open MS Word. Click the

Mailings tab.

3. Select Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard and a Mail Merge task pane will appear at the
right side of the document.

4. Choose the type of document you want to create. If you want to create a letter, select
Letter. Six main steps in guiding you to complete a merge

will be displayed at the bottom.

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 5. Click Next: Starting document to move to Step 2.

6. Select Use the current document. Click

Next: Select recipients to move to Step 3.

Note: You will need an address list so Word can

automatically place each address into the document. The
list can be in an existing file, such as an Excel workbook,
or you can type a new address list from within the Mail
Merge Wizard.

7. From the Mail Merge task pane, select Type a new list,
then click Create.

8. The dialog box of New address list appears, diplaying

fields that Word assumes you need. Select an entry that
you don’t need and click the Delete button. Use the TAB
key to move from cell to cell.

Note:

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 When you delete, a confirmation dialog box
will appear.

 To customize the address list, click

Customize Columns button at the

bottom of the window.

 The dialog box of Customized Address

List will appear. The resulting window lists the
Field Names provided. When you are done,
click OK then customized fields appear as
column headings in the New Address List
dialog box.

 Fill in the recipient list by typing the record’s data. Type the information that’s
appropriate to each field, then press TAB of the keyboard to enter the next

field. After filling in the last field, add another record just press the TAB key after inputting the
last field. When you press the TAB key on the last field in a record, a new record is
automatically created and added on the next line.

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 9. Click OK after filling the recipient list. A special Save As dialog box pops up, allowing
you to save the recipient list. Type a name for the address list then click the Save button.

Creating the form letter

1. Click Next: Write your letter. Click the Address Block button to insert an address block
into your letter.

Option B

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 Note: When you click the Edit Individual Documents, a Merge to
New Document dialog box will appear and choose All if you
have more than 1 recipient and click OK. After that, you will then
see the full merged letter without writing to

them one by one. When this is done, you can now print your work.

ACTIVITY 1.2: Let’s Practice

Problem: Mr. James Reid, the director of admissions at MOGCHS University, has asked you to send
an orientation letter announcement to all incoming freshmen. You decide to use a form letter.

Create a folder called “ SBNCHS-SHS

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5. Use the text below as the body of your letter. Follow the steps you have previously learned.

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 familyname_firstname_section_

Well done! You have finished Activity 1.2 on Mail Merging!

REFERENCES

Anderson, Rebecca S. Connecting in and Out-of-School Writing Through Digital Tools

by Emily Howell and David Reinking in Handbook of Research on Digital Tools for
Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings, 2014
Yuvencio, Joel C. Empowerment Technology: Making Small Shifts Towards a Big
Difference, 2019

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 Prepared by

Jose Joel T. Bolivar, II

Claire S. Juarez
Jed A. Somo

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