Empowerment Technologies

• How many of you use social media websites?• What is the most popular social media site?• Who among your member use internet to get

News?• Who among your members use iPhones or

Android phones?• Who among you here are familiar with

assistive media?

Internet - is often called the Information Superhighway. - become a major source of information. - major means of communication and platforms for information-based services. - electronic mail or e-mail - Internet relay chat (IRC) or chat - Online games, Social Network & blogging - and World Wide Web (WWW)

Internet - It is simply the net, it is a large computer

network that is made up of thousand network worldwide.

- ARPANET (Advance Research Projects Agency Network) launched by U.S. department of Defense ARPA (advance research project agency) in 1969 to enable scientist to share information and computer resources.

- It is owned by private companies or funded by government of some countries.

- Philippines are linked to the US-japan backbone in terms of using internet.

World Wide Web (WWW)• It is one of the services available on the

Internet that allows you to get information about anything and everything ( text, image and more) from any web site anywhere in the world to your computer.• It is a very huge informal network---

The first billion was reached in 2005. The second billion in 2010. The third billion in 2014. And as of 2016 3 billion where using the net.• Asia is the large user of the world internet

with 1.8 billion as of 2016.

WEB 2.0 - include social networking websites, self-publishing platforms (e.g., WordPress' easy-to-use blog and website creation tools), "tagging" (which enables users to label websites, videos or photos in some fashion), "like" buttons (which enable a user to indicate that they are pleased by online content), and social bookmarking. Users can provide the data that is on a Web 2.0 site and exercise some control over that data. These sites may have an "architecture of participation" that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it. Users can add value in many ways, such as by commenting on a news story on a news website, by uploading a relevant photo on a travel website, or by adding a link to a video or TED talk which is pertinent to the subject being discussed on a website

WEB 2.0- One of the most significant differences between Web 2.0 and the traditional World Wide Web (WWW, retroactively referred to as Web 1.0) is greater collaboration among Internet users, content providers and enterprises. Originally, data was posted on Web sites, and users simply viewed or downloaded the content. Increasingly, users have more input into the nature and scope of Web content and in some cases exert real-time control over it.

WEB 3.0• a phrase coined by John Mark off of the New

York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’ — such as those using semantic web, micro formats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies — which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.”

Convergent technologies

- is a nonprofit Internet-based radio reading service, Internet-delivered audio reading  to serve people with visual and reading impairments.- Founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1996 by David Erdody as a nonprofit organization and with volunteer readers began producing and distributing spoken-word recordings of otherwise inaccessible materials on audio cassette to participating libraries of The Library of Congress-National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. 

Assistive Media

Individually, do the following:

• Identify a community problem that need to be addressed in terms of technology empowerment.

• Develop a plan using a chosen platform to address the problem.