Angelica Faith Villacorta | Humss-Chaucer

Empowerment Technologies is not just a simple subject that teaches us about technologies; in this subject, we've experienced a lot of things that took us on a wonderful ride, a ride that is something spectacular.

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I still remember the day when I first attended this subject and were informed about the inventor of the World Wide Web, which is Tim Berners-Lee. We also watched a video about the evolution of the World Wide Web from 1 to 3 and learned how it evolves all the way through. Then we tackled online safety, security, and netiquette rules. 

Those are the lessons that caught our attention because they taught us how to be careful with our actions online. "Think before you click," is the quote that we often hear, but that is really true, since one wrong action that we take can cause us harm.

The next lessons taught us the basic fields of ICT that we can use, especially in this period of time. We are taught how to make our own PowerPoint presentations, which helps us a lot as students since most of the time we are tasked with creating our own presentations and discussing them in class. In addition, we are also taught how to use Microsoft Word and Publisher and create our own resume and application letter.

Before our first quarter ended, we were informed about the existence of Bill Gates and the history of Microsoft. 

Our lessons in the first quarter made me learn a lot of things and gave me knowledge that we can use in our everyday lives. Sometimes I feel difficulties, but my willingness to learn new things empowers us and pushes us to strive more and learn more.

The learning continues; in the second quarter, we are introduced to a new topic titled, Imaging and Design for the Online Environment, where we are taught about the basic principles of graphics and layout, creating info-graphics, Online file formats for images, Principles and basic techniques of image manipulation, uploading, sharing, and image hosting. Our first task in the second quarter was to make promotional videos, where we chose a place or something that we could promote and created a website about it. 

Next, we are informed about how ICT was used as a platform for change. The lesson caught our interest since we tackled different social movements. We also learned the role of ICT in recent history. These are the lessons where we tackled EDSA PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION, EDSA DOS, Yolanda People Finder, Million People March, and Change.Org. These lessons were followed by the elements and principles of digital citizenship. 

Then, we tackled everything about multimedia. The elements, their different types, and their uses in different fields.We are also taught how we can use ICT projects for social change and are grouped to create a concept paper on our chosen topic. I was amazed at how this subject made us share our opinions on different social issues that we are currently dealing with.

And lastly, our final project, which really taught us a lot of lessons, was a project that made us deal with different teachers and made this subject a lot more fun. We are tasked with creating a school website to promote the school. We've experienced difficulties, but we are able to deal with it. 

Empowerment technologies are truly an amazing subject for all of us. This subject taught us a lot of things that have been really helpful since the day that we attended its class until the last day. The lessons that we can bring to our journey. We feel fulfilled upon learning those things, and we can say that we are blessed and lucky to encounter this subject. We may find the task difficult sometimes, but what's important is that we are learning and that we continue learning. Because of empowerment technologies, we've found something spectacular.