Empowerment

Technologies
QUARTER 1
MODULE
Online Platforms for ICT Content Development
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 Empowerment Technologies
Quarter 1 – Module 5: Online Platforms for ICT Content Development

Republic Act 8293, Section 176 states that no copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of
the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office wherein the work is created shall
be necessary for the exploitation of such work for a profit. Such agency or office may, among other things,
impose as a condition the payment of royalties.
Borrowed materials (i.e., songs, stories, poems, pictures, photos, brand names, trademarks, etc.)
included in this module are owned by their respective copyright holders. Every effort has been exerted to locate
and seek permission to use these materials from their respective copyright owners. The publisher and authors do
not represent nor claim ownership over them.

EXPECTATIONS
Learning Competency
✓ evaluate existing online creation tools, platforms and applications in developing ICT
content for specific professional tracks; and
✓ 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.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the learning period, the students shall have:
✓ explain concepts behind online platform and application;
✓ understand the purpose of the existing online creation tools, platforms and
applications in producing varied ICT materials for different purposes;
✓ visit different online platforms and applications and make a short discussion on its
functions and benefits,
✓ appreciate the relevance of the existing online creation tools, platforms and
applications in accomplishing specific tasks.
✓ explain the uses of Google Forms as an online application;
✓ identify the steps in creating survey form using Google Forms; and
✓ conduct a survey using the created survey form in Google Forms.

LESSON 10

Please bear in mind that the previous lesson on basic principles of graphics and layout will be used in
the activities of the succeeding lessons so do not forget them but keep them at the back of your mind for future
use.
There are a variety of online platforms and applications that can be used for different purposes. The
trick is to know the purpose of each online platform and application to maximize its capability.
Let us define these two important words first. The term “online platform” has been used to describe a
range of services available on the Internet including marketplaces, search engines, social media, creative content
outlets, app stores, communications services, payment systems, services comprising the so-called
“collaborative” or “gig” economy, and much more. It is also 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 (OECD 2019, chap. 2). An online application is also known as a
web application. Yourdictionary.com defines it as a computer application that is accessed via a web browser
over a network.

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These are some of the online platforms and applications that you can use:

▪ Presentation tools are software used to create sequences of words and pictures that tell a story or help
support a speech or public presentation of information.
Examples: Prezi, Zoho Show, MS PowerPoint
▪ Photo editing tool is an application used to manipulate or enhance digital images. It ranges from basic
software that allows resizing of images to adding basic effects to a more complex form or image editing.
Examples: Picasa, Adobe Photoshop, MS Paint
▪ Photo uploading and hosting tools are websites that enable you to store and share digital images. These
kinds of websites make sharing pictures easier to do.
Examples: Dropbox, Flickr
▪ Online collaborative tools refer to the tools and platforms people use to work together within a digital
environment. Online collaboration distinctively involves a group of people working together at the same
time, on the same projects and documents.
Examples: Google Drive, Viber, Facebook
▪ Cloud computing means storing, processing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead
of using your computer’s hard drive.
Examples: Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive
▪ Blog tools are websites that permit anyone to write and publish their blog that is hosted on its servers.
Examples: Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal
▪ Mapping tools are applications that record physical locations on the globe for identification and
navigation.
Examples: Google Maps, Wikimapia
▪ Music production is an application used for creating music.
Examples: Sibelius, GarageBand
▪ Survey and forms are online software or applications dedicated as feedback or data collection tool that
brings you actionable information through online survey or forms.
Examples: Google Forms, Survey Monkey
▪ Content Management Systems (CMS) platforms are computer applications that allow you to publish,
edit and manipulate, organize and delete web content. CMS is used in blogs, news websites, and
shopping.
Examples: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla
▪ File Management platforms are applications that manage data files. It is also known as “file manager”
because it gives the ability to create, enter, change, query and produces reports on one file at a time.
Examples: Zamzar, Word2pdf
▪ Curating tools are applications used to find and collect online content (information previously created
by other people) and present the best pieces in a structured way.
Examples: Pinterest, Storify, Trapit
▪ Web design platforms are websites that grant users the independence to design and create their websites.
Examples: Wix, Weebly, Adobe Dreamweaver
▪ Web Management platforms are an integrated set of tools and services allowing teams to build, launch,
and manage websites.
Examples: Drupal, WordPress, Joomla

Please take time to visit these websites and be familiar with them.

Cloud computing applications are almost everywhere. Internet

users access these websites daily. The word “cloud” is a
metaphor for the Internet. It means everything can be accessed
remotely over the Internet. Social media such as Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are popular cloud computing
applications. What makes these cloud computing applications
appealing? What are its weaknesses? Here are some of its
advantages and disadvantages:

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Advantages of Cloud Computing Applications:
1. Back-up and restore data - If the data is saved in the cloud, it is easier to use the cloud to get back up
and recover those data.
2. Improved collaboration - Cloud technologies promote collaboration by allowing groups of people to
share information quickly and easily through shared storage in the cloud.
3. Excellent accessibility - With the internet connection, the cloud helps us to swiftly and effortlessly
access stored information anywhere, anytime in the whole world.
4. Low maintenance cost - Cloud computing reduces the costs to its users both hardware and software
maintenance.
5. Mobility - Cloud computing enables us to access all cloud data conveniently via mobile phone.
6. IServices in the pay-per-use model - Cloud computing provides users with Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs) for web-based access services and charges the fees for service use.
7. Unlimited storage capacity - Cloud provides us with a huge amount of storage capacity to store our
important data in one place, such as documents, images, audio, video, etc.
8. Data Security - One of the main benefits of cloud computing is data protection. Cloud provides
numerous sophisticated security features and guarantees data is stored and managed securely.

Disadvantages of Cloud Computing Applications:

1. Internet Connectivity - Any data (image, audio, video, etc.) that is stored in a cloud computing
application can only be accessed using an internet connection. If you don’t have good connectivity to
the Internet, you can’t access the information. We don’t have any other way of accessing those data
saved in the cloud.
2. Vendor lock-in - The greatest drawback of cloud computing is the lock-in vendors. When switching its
services from one vendor to another, users can face problems. Since various providers have different
services, this may cause difficulties to switch from one cloud to another.
3. Limited control - As we know, cloud infrastructure is wholly owned, managed, and monitored by the
service provided, so cloud users have less control over the function and performance of cloud
infrastructure services.
4. Security - Though cloud service providers implement the best standards of security to store important
information. You should bear in mind that you are sending information to a third-party service provider.
There is a big possibility that your information can be hacked by hackers while sending information on
the cloud.
In this presentation, the advantages of using cloud computing applications outweigh its disadvantages, but
as a user of the Internet, careful use of cloud computing applications should always be considered a top priority.

Google Forms

For this lesson, we will be discussing a very helpful application that you can use in gathering data where
face to face meeting with your respondents is limited because of the current situation.
Introducing, Google Forms. You may have heard about it, but for this lesson, we will make a thorough
discussion on how feedback or survey form is created using this application. Google Forms is a survey
management app that is included along with Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides in the Google
Drive office suite. Forms feature all the functions of collaboration and sharing found in Docs, Sheets and Slides.
Google Forms is a tool that allows users to collect information through a survey, feedback or quiz. The
information is compiled and linked automatically to a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is full of survey responses
and question responses.

Creating Feedback/Survey Form Using Google Forms

1. Open your browser and go to drive.google.com.
2. Sign in or create an account.
3. On the left-hand side of you’re My Drive page, click New> More> Google Forms> Blank
form/From a template.

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4. You will be taken to Google form’s interface.

To create a survey from a blank form, click on Blank Form. Or, to create a survey from a
template click From a template. If you see a template you like, click the template to open.

5. Say for example you have taken the Blank Form; you will be directed to this environment. There are
two parts to this page: Question and Responses. Creating the survey questions will be done under the
Question tab.

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6. You may now fill out the form with questions.
a) Form Title – this is simply the survey title.
b) Form Description – it explains why the survey is being given and what the survey is all about.
c) Question Title – includes the questions that will be answered by your audience.
d) Question Type – change the type of questions according to your preference. These options
include:

i.Text/ Short Answer – a question that can be answered with a short text.
ii.Paragraph Text – a question that can be answered with a long text.
iii.Multiple Choice – a question that can be answered by only one answer in a set of options.
iv. Checkboxes – a question that can be answered with multiple answers in a set of options.
v. Dropdown – gives recipients a field to click that reveals a menu they will select an answer
from.
vi. File Upload – allows a respondent to submit an answer of a specific file type (i.e., video,
presentation, document, pdf, etc.)
vii. Linear Scale – a question that can be answered with a numerical range (e.g., 1-5, 1-10).
viii. Multiple Choice Grid – a multiple-choice grid allows the user to select pre-defined
options for more than one choice.
ix. Checkbox Grid – allows users to input data across multiple input fields.
x. Date – a question that can be answered with a specified date.
xi. Time – a question that can be answered with a specified time.
e) These are the elements you can embed in your form.

7. The icons below are handy tools when writing questions.

8. If you wish to change the appearance of your survey form, you have to click the Palette icon located
at the top right part of the screen. You can change the font style, color or even insert images on your
form.

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9. To see the overall layout of your survey form, click on the eye icon.

10. Before you distribute your survey form to your respondents, make sure the settings have been organized
to your desire. Options such as how your respondents will answer the questions will email addresses be
collected, and can the survey form be shared over social media are just some of the conditions that you
can program in the Setting icon.

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11. Click the button Send when done.

You have three options on how to send the form: email, link or as an embed HTML.

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12. The Response section allows you to view and manage the responses of your respondents. You can
start seeing results once your survey is approved and data is processed, which usually happens in a
matter of hours.

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 ACTIVITIES

Activity 1. Give at least two (2) websites for the following online platforms.

Search Engines Social Media

_______________________ _______________________
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App Store Communication Services
_______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________

Activity 2. Explore and discover the websites below then answer the following questions.

Check Out this Website  Dropbox (www.dropbox.com

1. What is the purpose of this website?

__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

2. After visiting this site, what are the benefits that you have discovered?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

Check Out this Website  Flickr (www.flickr.com)

1. What is the purpose of this website?

__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

2. After visiting this site, what are the benefits that you have discovered?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

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Activity 3. On the space provided, write the function of each icon that can be found in the Google Forms
environment.

Activity 4. Online Survey Through Google Forms

In this activity, you may use the survey questionnaires that you have previously formulated for these
two subjects: Practical Research or Komunikasyon at Pananaliksik sa Wika at Kulturang Pilipino. Or you may
still formulate your own 10-question survey material on a topic of your choice.
You are to create an online survey form using Google Forms. The created form will be distributed to
your chosen respondents and ensure that they answer completely. Your subject teacher should be invited as a
collaborator.
The criteria for the said activity are as follows:

Criteria Points
✓ The survey form is completely done and is free from error (spelling, indention, etc.) 30
✓ There are at least 10 questions created; the creation of section was utilized 20
✓ Relevant images are embedded in the form 10
✓ The survey form was sent to at least 15 students; respondents were restricted to 30
answer only once
✓ The subject teacher was made Collaborator 10

WRAP-UP

1. What is an online application?

__________________________________________________________________________________
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2. What are the different uses of online applications?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
3. Give the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing applications.
Advantages Disadvantages

4. What is the function of Google Forms?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

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 5. Aside from creating a survey form for your research, where else can you use Google Forms?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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6. Enumerate the steps to take to create a survey form using Google Forms.
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

VALUING

1. It is a given fact that the pandemic COVID19 has affected every area of our society. In what way can
the use of online platforms and applications be beneficial to your everyday life?

Place your answer here.

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2. Compare and contrast the use of Google Forms against the paper and pen method of gathering data for
the survey.

Place your answer here.

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References
Villarroya, M. (2020). Quarter 1 – Module 13: Online Platforms for ICT Content Development (Part 1 [PDF
Document]. Department of Education - Schools Division of Pasig City.
Villarroya, M. (2020). Quarter 1 – Module 14: Online Platforms for ICT Content Development (Part 2 [PDF
Document]. Department of Education - Schools Division of Pasig City.

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 WEEKLY School: GENERAL SANTOS CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Quarter: Quarter 1
HOME
LEARNING Teacher: HUMSS-1D Week: Week 5
PLAN Subject: Empowerment Technologies Date: October 11-15, 2021

Day and Learning Learning

Learning Tasks Mode of Delivery
Time Area Competency
6:00–6:45 Wake up, eat breakfast and get ready for the scheduled lessons.
6:45-7:30 Doing other activities before the start of the lesson. (Exercising, taking a bath, changing clothes)
M-W-F Specific Activities For Printed Modular: Learners or
Empowerment ✓ evaluate existing 1. explain concepts behind online platform and application; Parents/guardian will hand-in the
or Technologies online creation tools,
2. understand the purpose of the existing online creation tools, output, answer sheets or activity
(for the platforms and
applications in platforms and applications in producing varied ICT materials sheets to the school based on the date
T-TH Strand) for different purposes; and time scheduled.
developing ICT
3. visit different online platforms and applications and make a
content for specific
As short discussion on its functions and benefits, For Digital Modular: Learners may
professional tracks;
reflected in and 4. appreciate the relevance of the existing online creation tools, upload/submit the output, answer
the class CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT- platforms and applications in accomplishing specific tasks. sheets or activity sheets to the LMS
program. Ig-h-9 5. explain the uses of Google Forms as an online application; (e.g., Google Classroom or other
6. identify the steps in creating survey form using Google Forms; online platforms) based on the date
and
✓ apply web design and time scheduled.
7. conduct a survey using the created survey form in Google
principles and
Forms.
elements using *As the learner/parent enter the school,
online creation tools, Instructional Delivery strict implementation of the minimum health
platforms, and protocols will be followed as prescribed by
▪ Use the SLM on familiarizing oneself, doing self-awareness the DOH and IATF.
applications to
activities and exploring oneself through the concept notes of
communicate a
the lessons. Note: Teacher can communicate to his/her
message for a
specific purpose in learners and do oral questioning and
Assessment/Activities
assessment to the learner for follow-up and
specific professional Answer/Do the following: verification.
tracks o Activity 1-4
CS_ICT11/12- o Wrap-Up 1-6
ICTPT-Ig-h-10 o Valuing 1 & 2

Note: Summative Test maybe given every Thursday or Friday

every other 2 weeks as basis for written tasks.
IPT maybe given for performance tasks.

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