Friday, 10 November 2017

Summary of Lesson 11: ICT as Platform for ChI ange

ICT has improved communication when filipinos needed it the most. Radyo Veritas helped success of the People Power Revolution. Text brigades helped in the success of EDSA Dos. Social media sites like Faceook helped in success of the Million People March. Finally, technologies like the People finder helped during comfort to families looking for their loved ones during calamities like Yolanda.


  • People Power Revolution - a major protest that took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos form different sectors
  • Radyo Veritas - a radio station used  by Cardinal Sin to encourage people to en the regime of former President Marcos
  • Million People March -  a series of protest that mainly took place in Luneta Park  form August 22 to 26, 2013. It was fueled by online campaigns
  • EDSA Dos - a major protest  after prosecutors of former President Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial in 2001 .
Change.org is dubbed as the '' world's platform for change'' where anyone form the online community can create a petition and ask others sign it. It also gives access  to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition and Change.org;s mission is to help people form the world to create the change they want to see

Thursday, 2 November 2017

Summary of Lesson 10: Interactive Multimedia

Modern websites add multimedia content sacrificing  too much bandwidth This done to give the site visitor a way to interact with what is on website.Multimedia Content could range from videos, sound, online browser-based games, online tests, courseware, podcasts, and vodcasts.


  • Multimedia -  Uses multiple media contents like videos, sounds, applications, etc.
  • Courseware - online courses that simulate the classroom online.
  • Podcast - an episodic series of audio or text files streamed online.
  • Vodcast - an episodic series of videos streamed online.
  • Embed - to place an object form one site to another.


Multimedia Content

Here are multimedia contents that you can find on some websites:

1.) Videos
2.) Sound, Music, or Audio
3.) Online games
4.) Online tes
5.) Courseware
6.) Podcasts
7.) Vodcasts


Most websites you see today have embedded Youtube videos on them. To remedy the problem that not everyone has fast internet connection, these Youtube videos can be set to be played ''on-demand'' rather than having them played automatically.

Summary of Lesson 11: ICT as Platform for ChI ange

ICT has improved communication when filipinos needed it the most. Radyo Veritas helped success of the People Power Revolution. Text brigades...