Self-Learning Home Tasks (SLHTs)

Q3Week5 MELC DLP SLHT

MELC 5: Evaluate existing online creation tools, platforms, and applications in developing ICT content, 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.

Objectives:

1. Identify online creation tools, platforms, and applications in developing ICT content;

2. Apply web design principles and elements using online creation tools, platforms, and applications;

3. Explain the use of online creation tools, platforms, and applications in developing ICT content;

4. Appreciate the utilization of web design principles and elements using online creation tools, platforms, and applications to communicate a message for a specific purpose in specific professional tracks.

Introductory Activity

What I Know-Activity (10 minutes only)

The personal website of the teacher may present the online resources for teaching and learning as well as for governance and linkages. The website, https://georgelumayag.weebly.com/ is a free subdomain that is used for the online support of sharing learning resources. It has the navigation menus, such as Home, Announcements, My Literary Works, Website-Innovations, Organized Trainings, Educational Research Papers, Action Research Papers, Project Proposals, Simplification of Works, Income Generating Projects, Linkages, Blogs, Dictionary, and Contact. The web developer utilizes his original and derivative ICT contents which are considered the very common contexts in website creation.

Disclaimer: The statements and a picture stated above are borrowed from online sources. The Department of Education does not claim or own the presented statements and a picture. Links for the sources are found in the reference part of the Self-Learning Home Task.

What's In Activity (3 minutes only)

The website presents the original creative compositions of the developer. Just browse the menu, Literary Works and or the sub-menus, Opinions, Poetry, Editorial Cartoons, Quotes, and Artworks.

This site also shows the online support of the learning materials which are categorized as derivative ICT contents which are posted and linked into the website.

Disclaimer: The statements and a picture stated above are borrowed from online sources. The Department of Education does not claim or own the presented statements and a picture. Links for the sources are found in the reference part of the Self-Learning Home Task.

Review (5 minutes only)

Use Image Manipulation Techniques

By George P. Lumayag


SketchBook is an offline software application that is downloadable using the cellphone with Android Operating System (OS), laptop, and desktop PC. In utilizing the software wherein creativity starts with an idea. From quick conceptual sketches to fully finished artwork, sketching is at the heart of the creative process. You never know when a great idea will strike. So, to access the fast and powerful creative sketching tools is an invaluable part of any creative process. (https://sketchbook.com/)

Activity

My Personal Website

By Geroge P. Lumayag


The personal website of the teacher may present the online resources for teaching and learning as well as for governance and linkages. The website, https://georgelumayag.weebly.com/ is a free subdomain that is used for the online support of sharing learning resources. It has the navigation menus, such as Home, Announcements, My Literary Works, Website-Innovations, Organized Trainings, Educational Research Papers, Action Research Papers, Project Proposals, Simplification of Works, Income Generating Projects, Linkages, Blogs, Dictionary, and Contact. The web developer utilizes his original and derivative ICT contents which are considered the very common contexts in website creation.

The website presents the original creative compositions of the developer. Just browse the menu, Literary Works and or the sub-menus, Opinions, Poetry, Editorial Cartoons, Quotes, and Artworks.

This site also shows the online support of the learning materials which are categorized as derivative ICT contents which are posted and linked to the website.

And this article is written for students to evaluate the existing online creation tools, platforms, and applications in developing ICT content for the specific professional tracks in Empowerment Technologies.

In evaluating the existing website platform, the 10 Basic Principles of Graphic and Design (Examples: Balance, Proximity, Alignment, Visual Hierarchy, Repetition, Contrast, Colour, Negative Space, Typography, and Rules) which were discussed in the previous competency shall be the possible guides in accomplishing the assigned task.

What's New Activity (10 minutes only)

Apply Web Design Principles and Elements

By George P. Lumayag


To apply the web design principles and elements, you need to sign up at https://www.weebly.com/. This is definitely free of charge if you choose the free sub-domain. You can sign up using your email account. And you need to fill in the required data for you to develop your personal website or blog site. Type weebly.com in the Google browser. Click the Sign-up icon. Type your first name and last name. Type and confirm your email. Create a password and select the country, the Philippines. Click I’m not a robot. Click I agree… And click the Continue icon. Please, don’t click Save the password on the browser. Click I just need a website. Select a theme by clicking Personal or other Weebly-suggested themes. Then, choose the sample theme offered by Weebly. Click the Start Editing icon. Type your desired name of the sub-domain. Click the Choose icon for your desired unique sub-domain. Then, click the Done icon. And click Reload Editor. Change the title of the header to your desired site. Ang click Publish icon. Below is the Weebly.com platform for creating the website.

These are the online creation tools and platforms of Weebly.com. You can build your website, create web pages, choose the theme, etc. When using the creation tool Build, you can click the editing tool, Title command, then hold and drag it into the body frame, then release it. You can type your desired title on the Text box. Then, you can also add the article or paragraphs by utilizing the Text command. You shall have to include the Disclaimer or include the proper citation of the adapted or adopted theories, principles, statements of facts, and opinions.

If you want to insert the picture, click the Image icon, hold and drag it into the body frame and release it. Click the Upload Image icon and click Upload a photo from your computer. Then, select the picture from your drive, and click the Open icon.

These are the sample applications of inserting the Text and an Image into the Weebly platform using the online creation tools.

Then, you can explore the online creation tools on Weebly platform which are categorized into the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG).

Analysis

How do you use online creation tools, platforms, and applications in developing the ICT content?

What Is It (10 minutes only)

  1. Exercises

Exercise 1. Essay. Evaluate the Existing Platform or Website. Directions. Option A. Using the pen and paper, evaluate the existing online creation tools, platforms and applications in developing the ICT content for specific professional tracks. Then, write a paragraph pertaining to the assigned topic. Option B. If you have no internet connection, write an essay discussing the usefulness of website utilization for teaching and learning during CoVid 2019 pandemic. Utilize a separate sheet of paper in accomplishing this Performance Task. Don’t forget to cite your reference/s.


The essay writing process consists of three main stages:

  1. Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay outline.

  2. Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evidence in the main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion.

  3. Revision: Check the content, organization, grammar, spelling, and formatting of your essay.

Abstraction

What’s More-Activity (10 minutes)

How can you utilize web design principles and elements using online creation tools, platforms, and applications to communicate a message for a specific purpose in specific professional tracks?

Application

What I Have Learned-Activity (10 minutes)

Performance Task: Directions.

After utilizing the web design principles and elements using online creation tools, platforms, and applications, appreciate these online tasks to communicate a message for a specific purpose in specific professional tracks.

Assessment

In your own words, explain the reasons why students develop a website and appreciate an original image or derivative ICT contents.

Assignment: Optional

Concluding Activity

“My teaching is not limited to the classroom; this can be a shortcut icon to everybody on the web; acquiring new ideas, the students might learn and experience in the application of knowledge, appreciation, and skills”. (George P. Lumayag)

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