Lesson 12: ICT Project for Social Change

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. Plan and conceptualize an ICT project for social change; and
2. identify the platforms that will help in the success of the campaign.

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 become a reality. This is very important as this concept paper will be the basis whether they approve of your project or not.

There are 5 elements of a concept paper:

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

2. Purpose-includes the reasons why this project is worth your group and 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 can be contacted.

ICT Project Process Overview

1. Planning- involves:

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

You need to make sure that you have different back-up plans in case something does happen.  Thus, creating these plans are included in the planning step.

2. Development- involves actual creation and production of sites, infographics, etc.

3. Release and Promotion- involves the actual release of the website for public view and promoting it. Promotion typically starts before the actual release. You can make use of different platforms to advertise your project, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. 

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

You can make use of suggestion forms in your site to know what you should add or remove in your site.

I hope that in this lesson, everyone will learn how to use ICT for social change.

Lesson 11: ICT as Platform for Change

       Throughout recent history, the Philippines has been one of a few nations that demonstrates unity for a call to action or social change. These campaigns for social change would not have been successful if it were not for ICT.

EDSA (People Power Revolution)

A video with the song "Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo" which is one of the most iconic songs which represents the 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 then President Ferdinand Marcos. A major protest took place alng EDSA from February 22 to 25,1986 involving two million Filipinos from different sectors. These included civilians, political parties, the military, and religious groups. The radio broadcast helped change the course of history. Without it, Filipinos would not have been moved into action.

EDSA Dos

A video of the news broadcast about EDSA Dos

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

Million People March

A video showing the gathering of the people in Luneta Park for the Million People 

        This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013. There were also several demonstrations that happened around key cities in the Philippines and some locations overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance fund. Though dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around 400,000. 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 mediums.

Yolanda People Finder

A video which shows how destructive Bagyong Yolanda was.

       Recent storms in 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 calamities.

Now that we know how ICT has affected different events in our country, let us now talk about a way on how you can start a change in your community through ICT: Change.org

WEEK 5: Lesson 10: Interactive Multimedia

Why is your tagline important?

• A brand tagline says who you are and why you are in business.
• A business brand tagline shows your point of difference
• A brand tagline explains what your product is offering
• A business brand tagline appeals to your market. It is a way to interact with your buyers.

Interactive
- offers multiple choices or scenarios

Multimedia

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

Text- the keystone that connects everything on your website

Sound- catches the attention of the viewers through their sense of hearing

Videos- big support for discussion because it adds to the information presented

Animation- it also catches the attention of the viewers and adds to the visual appeal of your information.

Graphics- used to explain topics visually.

Interactive Multimedia

-products and services on computer based systems which respond to users' actions by presenting content

Examples of Multimedia content

• Videos
• Sound, Music, or Audio
• Online games
• Online tex
• Courseware
• Podcasts
• Vodcasts

Potential of Multimedia in Education

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Consistent
4. Private
5. Safe
6. Personal
7. Strong Foundation
8. Tool to make people remember something longer but easier
9. Faster information
10. Fun

What are the impacts of Multimedia in Education?

• Change in Student and teacher roles.
• Increased motivation and Self-Esteem.
• Technical Skills.
• Accomplishment of more complex tasks.
• More collaboration with peers.
• Increased use of outside sources.
• Improved design skills.

When do you use Interactive Multimedia?

• Lecture Presentation
• Collaborative Learning
• Individualized Learning
• Creating Reports of Presentations
• Assessment

What are interactive multimedia's pros and cons?

Pros:

• The ability to change outcomes based on input.
• The learning style is individual and exclusive.
• Learners take more productive role.

Cons:

• Using instructional technologies requires great quantity of resources.
• Learner Control Problems.