The document compares and contrasts various online platforms. It defines an online platform as a structure that uses the internet for communication, education, and business purposes. Examples provided include Facebook, Lazada, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. The document then discusses nine different online platforms - assistive media, collaborative platforms, convergent technologies, information and communications technology, mobile media, online systems, social media, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 - providing examples and descriptions of each. In conclusion, while the online platforms differ, they generally aim to help people gather information, communicate, and interact with each other.
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Empowerment Technologies Week 1
The document compares and contrasts various online platforms. It defines an online platform as a structure that uses the internet for communication, education, and business purposes. Examples provided include Facebook, Lazada, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. The document then discusses nine different online platforms - assistive media, collaborative platforms, convergent technologies, information and communications technology, mobile media, online systems, social media, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 - providing examples and descriptions of each. In conclusion, while the online platforms differ, they generally aim to help people gather information, communicate, and interact with each other.
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Comparison and Contrast the Nuances
Varied Online Platforms
Empowerment Technologies MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING COMPETENCIES • compare and contrast the nuances of varied online platforms, sites, and content to best achieve specific class objectives or address situational challenges What is online platform? Online Platform is a structure that uses internet that can be used by people for different purposes. Such as for communication, educational, and business purposes
Example: Facebook, Lazada, Zoom, Microsoft Teams ,
and etc. Identify which of the following icons are considered as online platforms Google Map Tumblr PowerPoint Facebook YouTube Kumu What are the reasons why you visit those internet sites/online platforms? What are the different online platforms? There are nine (9) different online platforms and each of them has their own use and effectiveness : • Assistive Media • Collaborative Platform • Convergent Technologies • Information and Communications Technology (ICT) • Mobile Media • Online Systems • Social Media • Web 2.o • Web 3.o Assistive Media This platform is created to help people with disabilities access computers from the word itself “assistive”, they guide individuals with disability like blind people by using audio recording of the literary works. Collaborative Platform This platform is categorized as a business software, ideal platform for a business- oriented persons sharing the same kind of interests. Examples: emails, personal and group calendars, VoIP services, video meeting, collaborative documents and message notes. Convergent Technologies Deals with the technologies converging or coming together to form another technology. Example: a phone with alarm, calculator, camera, music, video, internet, etc. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
are digital forms of communication. This platform
includes any communication device or applications to help people gather information and easily communicate by means of cellular phones, computer network and hardware and software, blogging and email. Mobile Media talks about media devices such as mobile phones as the primary source of portable media from which we could get information and communicate to one another easily. Nowadays, smartphones are the most used devices for mobile media because of its features and it is handy for the users. Online Systems are online versions of information systems for sharing, managing, gathering of data and communications. This information system is online-based, we have to access to the internet in order to use this system. Social Media gathers people to share information, interest and pictures in virtual community. It allows people to interact with each other and the best example is “Facebook”. Web 2.0 is a dynamic web and a user-generated platform. It has six key features (Folksonomy, Rich User Experience, User as a Contributor, Long Tail, User Participation, Basic Trust, Dispersion) that allows users to have a better experience and also interact with other people, the user is able to see a website differently than others like in the social networking sites, blogs and video sharing sites. Web 3.0 also known as the ” Intelligent Web” is created more personalized than the Web 2.0. Web 3.0 is like a personal assistant to users since it provides most of the needs of the users, by simply clicking and typing of words the Web 3.0 will do its task and provide results immediately. Examples of Web 3.0 applications are Wolfram Alpha and Apple’s Siri, which can summarize large amounts of information into knowledge and useful actions for people. Generalization: Even though this online platforms are different, they still share the same goal and that is to help individuals gather information, communicate and interact with each other for a better living. THANK YOU