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Blog Entry 8: Collaborative ICT Development

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                In this lesson, everyone is interested and related because online collaborative tools are part of our daily lives. We cannot be denied that it has a big advantage to us, it allows us to work with others even if we are far from them such as Facebook Groups, WordPress, G Suite, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Microsoft Office Online, Microsoft’s Yammer, and Trello. Through these, it makes everything accessible with everyone we like to share with. Corporate and Businessman/woman who usually use these especially Microsoft Office Online, Microsoft’s Yammer, and Trello. Yammer allows companies to have their own social network that allows sharing and managing content. While Trello offers an online to-do checklist for your entire team. Lastly, Microsoft Office Online helps them to create a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation program respectively.

Blog Entry 7: Online Platforms as Tools for ICT Content and Development

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Using social networking sites are always in our lifestyle, somebody says they can't live without the internet because this is they called escape world. Online Platforms are powerful indeed, it allows us to entertain, communicate, gain more friends, and share information, thoughts, pictures, and activities. In the help of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and tumbler. In this topic, we assign to create a blog about our subject Empowerment Technology, through Blogger.com helps me to create this superb blog. Online Platforms give me a hand in doing my school works like in reporting, I always using Prezi and Slideshare in making visual aids and Mindmeister in creating a mind map. Having no own flash drive is a very hard thing when printing a lot of paper works however, Google Drive and Dropbox make the work do for me. It keeps my documents safe and secures that also an easy to access even from a laptop, tablet or phone. Moreover, online platforms allow the user...

Blog Entry 6: Imaging and Design for Online Environment

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Uploading the right pictures are so much stress because we are vain to make it perfect in the eyes of everyone. In this lesson, it tackles about basic principles of graphics and layout which are the balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, variety, pattern, repetition, and rhythm to create outstanding graphics. We can download the graphics by three image format which includes the Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpeg), Portable Network Group (.png), or Graphics Interchange Format (.gif). Also, we're been assign individually to create an infographic about little things about ourselves, through this we able to show our creativity and principles that we learned in making graphics. Editing pictures is one of our expertise, we crop, resize, add filters, adjust the brightness, and color balance to gather more likes and followers on Facebook, Instagram, and in any networking sites.

Blog Entry 5: Advanced Presentation Skills

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This is it pancit! finals are coming, the last chance to prove that we deserve to graduate this year. In this lesson, it tackles about creating an effective presentation and hyperlinks. As we all know, we are in the modern era where technology is growing through this we can able to illustrate our reports, ideas, and etc. As a student having a lot of reporting is common to us, by this activity we have to create visual aids to show to our classmates and teacher the ideas and information that we discuss.  As Presentation Software been introduced to us making visual aids is easy, no more Pentel pens and manila papers or Cartolina that need to buy. It also less exerting an effort by writing and less expense to the materials needed. Creating power point presentation in Microsoft have a lot of features you can add to make your visual aids creative by adding animation, transition, and different effects. To be able to make effective visual aid you need to consider the number of sl...

Blog Entry 4: Advanced Spreadsheet Skills

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In this lesson, I learned to familiarize with the most commonly used functions in Microsoft Excel. I also learned to used several conditional functions available in Microsoft Excel and use it as a viable tool in market research and product development. But first what is Microsoft Excel? It is a widely used spreadsheet program. A spreadsheet program is a software for entering, editing, manipulating and printing information in a tabulated form. It is a program mainly used for handling numbers. By this topic, we had a class on the computer laboratory to be able to explain the discussion, so that the students can also try the Microsoft excel. They also taught us the parts of the Excel which are the name box, formula box, column headings, row headings, select all button, tab scrolling button, tab split tabs, sheet tabs, and active cell. Furthermore, formatting cells, creating a series, editing data, Inserting and deleting rows and columns, and using formulas and functions are been ...

Blog Entry 3: Advanced Word Processing

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Resume Cover Letter #1 Cover Letter #2 After the discussion, I learned a lot of things such as I use some advanced capabilities of Microsoft Word commonly used to increase productivity and efficiency. I effectively use those features to help me improve the productivity of an organization by maximizing the potential of MS Word. I also learned to create form letters or documents for distribution to various recipients. As well as labels and envelopes for distribution and media-rich documents for printing or publishing. By these, it minimizes the time I will use to creating a letter which is called Mail Merge, But first what is a mail merge? Mail Merge is a process to create personalized letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a form letter. There two Components of Mail Merge: Form Document and List or Data File. The form document contains the main body of the message we want to convey or send, while list or data file is where the i...

Blog Entry 2: Rules of Netiquette

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In this lesson, it taught me that the internet is a powerful tool, in every, react button, comment and share you can share happiness or maybe hurt somebody's feelings. However, we should think before we click, in other word spite of our freedom to speak we should still consider others and if we talk with sense. The Internet is also a dangerous place because anyone can know your information especially when you're putting a lot of information in your account. We should careful when sharing information and avoid posting a status where you are. Do not share your password with anyone especially with your boyfriends and girlfriends, it is still your privacy to have. But the biggest advantages of the internet we easily access with everyone, staying in touch with old friends, gain new friends, promoting and finding someone. Apart from that, we should add friends that we only know in real life and do not talk to strangers whether online or face-to-face. The most important t...