Senior High School
EMPOWERMENT
TECHNNOLOGIES
QUARTER 1: SLAS 4:
(Self-Learning Activity Sheets)
Using common productivity tools
effectively by maximizing advanced
application techniques
FOR TANDAG CITY DIVISION USE
ONLY
WEEKLY LEARNING
ACTIVITY SHEETS
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Learning Area: Empowerment Technologies Quarter: First
Name of Learner:
Grade level: 11/12 Track:
School:
LEARNING ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Week Covered: Week 4
Learning Competency: Uses common productivity tools effectively by maximizing
advanced application techniques. (CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-Ic-d-4)
Objectives: After the completion of this self-learning activity sheet, you should be able to:
1. Identify common productivity tools and their advanced application techniques,
2. Apply uses of common productivity tools effectively by maximizing advanced
application techniques; and
3. Appreciate the importance of applying uses of productivity tools effectively by
maximizing advanced application techniques.
Materials: Modules, activity notebook, and pen
Content Background:
Productivity Tools
Productivity tools have been part of our everyday lives, whether at school, at work, or at
home. Also, not everyone has the means or opportunity but for majority of people in their
respective industries and field of work or studies it has become a necessity.
Productivity tools, also known as productivity software, refers to the software use to create
and produce documents, presentations, databases, charts, graphics, and many more.
So why use productivity tools? Although it is true that there are lots of advantages it gives
the users, the best one is that it has made our computing tasks more efficient and effective.
Now, when was the last time you used a computer? What the task did you need to finish
and what software did you use to accomplish that task? Well, there is a big chance that you
used a productivity tool.
Almost all computing tasks can be done with the help of productivity tools like writing a
letter, creating attractive presentations, or a graph with data collected from research
samples. All of these made easier and better, and that is thanks to the existence of
productivity tools.
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SEE AND BE SEEN
Procedure:
Elicit
Directions: List down at least three (3) productivity tools that you know and have used it at
least once. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
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Guide Question:
1. Have you mastered and maximized the use of these productivity tools?
Engage
Directions: Identify six (6) examples of advanced application techniques in using
productivity tools. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
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Guide Question:
1.Have you ever used these advanced applications from any productivity tools? If yes, is it hard or
easy to apply?
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Explore
Directions: Choose one (1) example of advanced applications that you listed above and try
it by yourself. A rubric will be provided which you will use to self-evaluate your performance.
Write your self-evaluation form result on a separate sheet of paper.
Guide Question:
1.On a scale of one-to-ten (1-10), how difficult is it for you to apply advanced application techniques
on the productivity tool that you have used?
Explain
Advanced Tools/Techniques
Tool/Technique Use Case
1. Mail Merge and label generation Mass email or printed letters
2. Custom animation and timing Enhance viewer experience
3. Hyperlinking in presentations Optimizes use of related content and
references. Applies to Word/Write document
too.
4. Integrating images and external Enriches textual content. Also useful in
materials in word processor presentation slides and sometimes in
spreadsheets.
5. Embedded files and data Seamlessly integrates related files
6. Advanced and complex formulas Simplifies and automates common tasks.
and computations
Mail Merge
It is a Word’s way of generating mass mailings. It involves combining a list of names and
addresses to individually address to each person / receiver on the list. You can use Mail
Merge to create envelopes or address labels, as well as form letters. Mail Merged involved
the following documents:
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Main document – this document contains text and graphics. Example body of the
letter.
Mailing list – this is your data source that is used to populate information in the letter.
It contains names and address of the recipients.
Merged document - this document the combination of the main document.
Custom Animation
Animation is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames.
Animation on computers is one of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. There
are many software applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on
a computer monitor. One of this application software are presentation software that you can
use to create a slide show for your presentation. Some of the popular software that are
available online for free or for purchase are WPS Office, LibreOffice, and MS-PowerPoint.
Hyperlink
A hyperlink or simply a link, is a reference data that the reader can directly follow either by
clicking or tapping. Hyperlinks are found in nearly all Web pages, allowing users to click their
way from one page to another. In text hyperlinks are often color blue and underlined. When
you move the cursor over a hyperlink, whether it is text, button or an image, the arrow cursor
should be change to a small hand pointing to the link.
Hyperlinks have to basic parts:
1. The Address – can be webpage, email address, or other location they are linking.
2. The Display – can be picture or shape.
Example:
• https://www.microsoft.com - address
• microsoft - display text
• https://www.microsoft.com - address at the same time display text
Integrating Images
In Microsoft word processing you can do a lot of things to make your documents look good
and presentable. One of its function is to integrate image. Word processing refers to an
application program for manipulating text-based documents: the electronic equivalent of
paper, pen, typewriter, eraser, and most likely, dictionary and thesaurus. Word processors
run the scope from simple through complex, but all ease the tasks associated with editing
documents (deleting, inserting, rewording, and so on).
Electronic Spreadsheet
Almost all spreadsheets are now packaged in combination with other applications, such as
database system and graphic capabilities. Electronic spreadsheet refers to a collection of
text and numbers laid out in a rectangular grid. It is an application program commonly used
for budgeting, inventory management, decision making, forecasting and other finance-
related tasks.
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It replaces the traditional financial modeling tools, the accountant’s columnar pad, pencil and
calculator. It a spreadsheet program, data and formulas used to calculate those data are
entered into ledge-like forms (Spreadsheets or Worksheets) for analysis, tracking, planning,
or “what-if” evaluations of the impact of real or proposed changes on an economic strategy.
Arithmetic operations
ARITHMETIC OPERATORS /SYMBOLS OPERATIONS EXAMPLES
OPERATION EXAMPLE
+ (Plus Sign) Addition =A1+A2
- (Minus Sign) Subtraction =A1-A2
* (Asterisk) Multiplication =A1*A2
/ (Forward Slash) Division =A1/A2
^ (Exponentiation) Raise a number 3^2
to a power
- (Negation) Negation =-11
% (Percent Sign) Percentage =90%
Formula – is an equation that performs operation on worksheet data. A formula
in Microsoft Excel always begins with an equal sign (=).
There are a wide range of benefits of using productivity tools, the best reason is that it just
makes the essentials more efficient and effective every time we use computer to do different
task.
Below is a link provided for you to visit and practice using advanced tools/techniques in
different productivity tools available in your computer. Kindly click the link and read the
directions and instructions for you to follow and know the steps of some advanced
tools/techniques.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yX2gks7Is6mx22Vwlk7a2o5kdrTA_TUi/view?usp=sharing
Elaborate
Directions: In the identified advanced application techniques of productivity tools, choose
two (2) examples and apply it in a presentation at the same time. A rubric will be provided
which you will use to self-evaluate your performance. Write your self-evaluation form result
on a separate sheet of paper.
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Guide Question:
1.Is possible to apply two or more advanced applications in a presentation at the same time?
Evaluate
Directions: On your paper, write the word TRUE if the statement is correct, and write
FALSE if the statement is wrong.
___________ 1. Microsoft Office is a free and open-source software.
___________ 2. Main document is a data source that is used to populate information in the
letter.
___________ 3. The default orientation of the document is a Landscape.
___________ 4. You can change the color of display text in a hyperlink.
___________ 5. Formula is an equation that performs operation on worksheet data.
___________ 6. The hyperlink can be a website address at the same time display text.
___________ 7. The default number of worksheets in an excel is 4.
___________ 8. Arial is the default font style in Microsoft Office 2016.
___________ 9. The data source in a mail merge is your mailing document.
___________10. The mouse pointer form’s changes depending on the task you are
performing.
Extend
Directions: Read the question below and write your answer in a paragraph form. Write this
activity on a separate sheet of paper.
How important it is for you as a student in your current senior high school track to use
common productivity tools effectively by maximizing advanced application techniques?
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REFLECTIONS
Concept Learned:
I have learned that
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Concepts Unlearned:
I need to know more about
REFERENCES
Web 3.0 Is Coming Soon!. (2019, January 19). Retrieved from
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De Lara, Maricel. (2016, November 3). Empowerment Technology. Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/maricelbaldomerodelara/lesson-1-empowerment-technology. Retrieved on
September 21, 2020.
Quiambao, Angelito. (2019, September 8). Online platforms for ICT Content Development. Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/AngelitoQuiambao/online-platforms-for-ict-content-development-169954837.
Retrieved on September 21, 2020.
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ANSWER KEYS
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Development Team of the Semi-Module
Writer: Harold N. Husayan I Buenvaista National High School
Editors: Beverlyn N. Atrejenio
Reviewer: Mick Mars P. Silvano
Illustrator: Julien A. Espinoza
Management Team: Dorothy L. Suazo
Mick Mars P. Silvano
Maxuel J. Medrano
For inquiries or feedback, please write or call:
Department of Education – Division of Tandag City
LEARNING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SECTION (LRMS)
Purok Narra, Balilahan, Mabua, Tandag City
Telephone: 214-5548
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