Lesson 12: ICT Project for Social Change

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      ICT on Social Change

• Social Change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. Social Change may include social institutions, social behaviors, or social relations. It can be done in any form of multimedia.

      You can make social changes through the use of campaigns. Campaigns are a work in an organized and active way toward a particular goal; typically a political or social one. A campaign will help you promote and organize your project properly.

      Simplified ICT Project Process Overview :

     

      Planning —> Development —> Release and Promotion —> Maintenance

      1. Planning - Involves the following task( but not limited to):

• Conceptualizing your project
• Researching on available data about your topic
• Setting deadlines and meetings
• Assigning people to various tasks
• Finding a web or blog post
• Creating a site map for tour website
•  Listing down all applications that you need for your project
• Funding

     Creating a Concept Paper

Before starting your project, your group should be able to do the necessary paperwork. This allows experts to see if your project is doable over the time frame that was given and if it is significant enough to be made into reality.

A concept paper is a document used to convince a panel of potential funders to help a product, program, or service to become a reality.

There are five elements of a concept paper:

1.Introduction-includes tour group’s mission and vision and a brief introduction of your project.

Purpose-includes the reasons why this project is worth your group and your sponsor’s time, effort and money.

3.Description-includes all the necessary information about the project. In ICT, it involves the sites you are going to produce and the purpose of each and how they work in unison.

4.Support-contains the budget needed for the project. Some concept papers do not specify any amount requested from the sponsor.

5.Contact information-includes information on how the group be contacted.

     2. Development - involves the actual creation of the website(s), involves the production of images, infographics etc.

    Medias you can use:

• Text
• Videos
• Pictures
• Audio
• Websites

     3. Release and Promotion- involves the actual release of the website for public view and promoting it. Promotion typically starts before the actual release.

     4. Maintenance- involves responding to feedback of your site visitors and continuing to improve your website.

     

Lesson 11: ICT as Platform for Change

                           source: http://mariahfrancheska.blogspot.com/2016/07/ict-as-platform-for-change.html

                1. EDSA ( People Power Revolution). The People Power Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of Radyo Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of the president Ferdinand Marcos.

A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22-25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos from different sectors. These include civilians,  political parties, the military, and these sectors. The radio broadcast helped change the course of history. Without it, Filipinos would no have been moved into action.

                2. EDSA Dos. This is also known as the 2001 EDSA Revolution, happened during January 17-21,2001. It was also fueled after 11 prosecutes of then President Joseph Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial. As a result, The crowd in EDSA grew over the course of a few days through text brigades. Like the first People Power Revolution, EDSA Dos would not have been successful without the text brigades.

             3. Million People March. This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013. There were also several demonstration that happened around the key cities in the Philippines and some locations overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund(PDAF). Though dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around 400,00. Despite that, it was still considered a success and clearly demonstrated how powerful social media campaigns are. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used Facebook and Change.org as their medium.

            4. Yolanda People Finder. Recent storms in the Philippine history gave birth to the People finder database powered by Google. During typhoon Yolanda, the People Finder was a vital tool for people across the globe to track the situation of their relatives. This proved to be successful and is now adapted by more organizations to help people track relatives during calamity.

                 Change.org

                          Source: https://diabetesauckland.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Change.org-2.png

                         Change.org is dubbed as the "world's platform for change"

        where anyone form the online community can create a petition and ask others to sign it. During the past time petitions are only done through signing a paper, usually done by a group asking for signature via travel. Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition. 

                       Change.org's mission is to help people around the world create change they want to see. For years, Change.org hosted several petitions that help solve the following problems: economic problems, criminal's injustice, abuse of human rights, lack of education, environmental concerns, animal abuse, human health concerns, and world hunger.

             

Lesson 10: Interactive Multimedia

                          Source: http://aja.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2432570

              

                  Interactive- It offers multiple choices or scenarios, the viewer chooses which sequences or subjects to explore, "interacts" with viewers

                 Multimedia- Text, sound, video, animation and graphics in the same program or presentation

            Interactive Multimedia- Products and services on computer based system which responds to user's actions by presenting content

      Different multimedia contents

1.  Videos
2. Sound, Music, Audio
3. Online Games
4. Online Tests
5. Courseware
6. Podcast
7. Vodcast

      Potentials In Mutlimedia To Education

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Consistent
4. Private
5. Safe
6. Personal
7. Strong Foundation
8. Tool To Make Remembering Easier
9. More Information Faster
10. Fun

     Multimedia In Education

1. Change in student and teacher
2. Increased motivation and self-esteem
3. Technical Skills
4. Accomplishment of more complex tasks
5. More collaboration with peers
6. Increased use of outside resources
7. Improved Design Skills

   When to use Interactive Multimedia

1. Lecture/Presentation
2. Collaborative learning
3. Individualized learning
4. Treating reports or presentations assessments

     Pros Of Interactive Multimedia

1. The ability to change outcomes based on input
2. The learning style is individual and exclusive.
3. Learners take more productive roles.

   Cons Of Interactive Multimedia

1. Using instructional technologies requires a great quantity of resources
2. Learner Control Problems

   

      

        

Lesson 9: Collaborative ICT Development

                           source: http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/advertising/3-ways-web-conferencing-helps-get-your-team-in-sync/ 

               Web Portal- A web portal is a website that contains information from different sources and places them in a one location in a uniform way. An example of a web portal is Google.

   Top 10 Web Portals

• MySpace
• Baidu
• Wikipedia
• Blogger
• MSN
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Yahoo
• Google

     Portlet- Interactive elements that gives information to the user.

   

     Online Collaboration- Simply put, online collaboration lets a group of people work together in real-time over the internet

  Web Conference- provides live audio/video communication between two or more locations to conduct meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet.

 The difference between Online Collaboration and Web conference is that Online collaboration is sharing information to each other to come with a way to achieve the groups goal. While in Web Conference is more like a meeting to discuss about a certain topic.

   Encryption- additional layer of security that makes content unreadable for people with malicious intent.

  SSL( Secure Socket Layer )- is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser.

  Tips to have a successful collaboration tool

1. Easy to use
2. Have features that will fit your purpose
3. Ability to upload documents
4. Security Features

*Online Collaborative tools are most effective the group members are willing to achieve a common goal.

                                

           

Lesson 8: Basic Web Page Creation

     source: http://www.taplowgroup.com/Expertise/ICT
                                
                                People use HTML ,codes to create pages and CSS codes to design them. If you have taken up these coding skills before, it will help you in creating pages using WYSIWYG. If you have not, WYSIWYG is designed for anyone who has not or does not have prior processing skills.

           WYSIWYG
                    WYSIWYG is the acronym for What You See Is What You Get. This means that whatever you type, insert, draw, place, rearrange, and everything you do on a page is what the audience will see. Like using the Microsoft Word(R), WYSIWYG shows and prints whatever you type on the screen.

  Ways Of Accessing The Web:

• Dial-up connection. 
• DSL.
• Cable Internet.
• Wireless Internet.
• Dedicated Wire.

     Web Browsers

  A website must be tested and viewed using the browsers that are commonly used by users worldwide.

• Internet Explorer.
• Mozilla Firefox.
• Safari.
• Google Chrome.
• Opera.
• Netscape.
• Flock.

  Basic Web Principles

• Balance.
• Proximity.
• White Space
• Contrast.
• Focus.
• Unity.
• Alignment.

  Essential Elements Of Web Contents

• Accuracy.
• Readability.
• Understandable.
• Concise.
• Ethical and Legal.

  Planning Your Website

1. Create the goal or purpose of the website.
2. Identify the primary target audience.
3. Plan the concept of the website.
4. Plan and organize the site structure.
5. Plan the web pages detail.
6. Planning and designing the navigation scheme.
7. Planning and gathering resources.

    Keyterms:

• Internet. World wide collection of computers.
• Webpage. Its is a formatted page within a website that contains text,graphics,video and multimedia.
• Homepage. The first web page of a website which usually provides information about the website it's purpose and content.
• Splash Page. It contains a multimedia which is designed to be attractive and intriguing.

               
                    

Lesson 7: Online Platforms For ICT Content Development

                                   source: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regional-Presence/Europe/Pages/Events/2016/KnowledgeExchange/Knowledge-Exchange-on-ICT-Accessibility-Making-ICTs-Accessible-and-Inclusive-for-All.aspx

            

                      According to my what my teacher told us about this lesson is that, you only need to know the difference between Blogging Platforms and Social Media Platforms.

  

   Online Platforms For ICT Content Development

   We will focus on platforms that will allow us to share our content to the rest of the world. We will also create a few of them to experience what it is like to use all of them.

1. Social Media Platforms. Websites like Facebook allow you to create not only personal accounts but also pages and groups where you can share content. The only downside of this is that you are restricted to Facebook's "one-size-fits-all" design.
2. Blogging Platforms. Websites like WordPress, Tumblr, and Blogger focus on content and design. It typically looks like a newsletter where you are given options to change the design to your liking. Though you can manipulate the design, social media platform's popularity is still unrivaled. The amount of customization in blogs also unrivaled depending on the content management system implemented by the provider.

        A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer application (sometimes online or browser-based) that allows you to publish, edit and manipulate, organize and delete web content. CMS is used in blogs, news websites, and shopping.

  

         My teacher also told me that in terms of usefulness they are equal. It depends on how the user maximizes the uses of each Platforms. And the difference between the two platforms is that in Social Media you can post a status or express your opinion about a certain topic but in Blogging Platforms is where you make a post about a certain topic but it is more in-depth than the Social Media Platforms.

Lesson 6: Imaging and Design For Online Environment

Source: https://visual.ly/community/infographic/other/infographic-about-infographics?utm_source=visually_embed

                Creating a web page is like creating a work of art. there are certain things that you                 need to consider in order to get your message across. the previous lesson we learned          how to create an effective Powerpoint presentation. Some of those tips can help you             in making your graphics and layout design.

          

            

       Basic Principles Of Graphics and Layout

             1. Balance. It is the weight of objects, texture,

                 colors, and space is evenly distributed on 

                 the screen.

                Source: https://medium.com/@chadengle/the-lost-principles-of-design-ded9311b1266

                           2. Emphasis. An area in the design that may 

                  appear different in size, texture, shape or

                  color to attract the viewer's attention.

                             Source: http://lukkassonaligd.weebly.com/elements-and-principles-of-design.html

            3. Movement. Visual elements guide the

               viewer's eyes around the screen.

                        
                           Source: http://lukkassonaligd.weebly.com/elements-and-principles-of-design.html

           4. Pattern, Repetition and Rhythm.These are the repeating visual element on an image or layout to create unity in the layout or image. Rhythm is achieved when visual elements create a sense of organized movement.

             

                            

                            Source :https://www.pinterest.com/pin/61502351137739319/ 

          5. Proportion.Visual elements create a sense  of unity where they relate well with one another.

                               

                                               Source: https://pittkyle123.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/proportion-scale-1.gif

                            6. Variety.This uses several design elements to draw a viewer’s attention.                    

              

               

                              Source: https://pittkyle123.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/unity-variety-2.jpg

                              Infographics- Are used to represent information,

               statistical data, or knowledge in a graphical manner

              it is done in a creative manner to attract the viewers

              attention. Infographics makes complex data become

             more visually appealing to an average user.

                      Reasons to use infographics:

                1. Infographics Can easily catch your targeted audiences’ attention. 

                2. Infographics Can make your content more understandable.

                3. Infographics Can help cover heavy topics in an enjoyable way.

                4. Infographics Are the champions when it comes to online sharing.