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ICT in the home

 

ICT in the home: introduction

Who am I?

I am an ICT consultant, and I am here to advise you and your family on the most suitable system for your home, and how to use it to the advantages on offer I will show you how to use the most up to date programmes and prove to you that you will benefit greatly from a new system and how easy it is to work.

What am I going to do? I will advise you and sort out the easiest and most suitable system for you and your family to use and how to use each specific programme that you need.  

Task analysis:

  • Send out questionnaires to families
  • Research off the internet
  • Research in to different systems
  • Find out how the family use the system, what is it used for?
  • Find a suitable system for the family so that the entire family will benefit

Aim of the project:

  • To allow family  to fully understand how to use each programme
  • To show them the amount of information that is available out there!
  • To show them quicker ways of doing things
  • To show them that their kids can learn very many new things to do with school homework etc…

Disadvantages to having a new system:

  • You may loose out financially
  • You may have got used to your old system and the way it worked and will find it hard to adapt to this new system
  • The older programmes may not be able to be installed on your new system therefore you will either be without the programme or will have to pay more money to buy the newer version.

Advantages to having a newer system:

  • It will be quicker
  • The layout is much easier to understand on the modern computers
  • Newer software allows many more options and different ways of doing things
  • There is more space to save files etc… on to.
  • The newer models of computers depending on which one are smaller producing more space.

These advantages all show the reasons why a newer system will be extremely beneficial.

Questionnaire

Do you own a computer system?

 If so what programmes do you use on it?

What programmes do you use most often and why?

Do your children (if any) use it at all, if so what for?

Do you use it for anything else such as school work or work?

If you were to have another computer system which programmes or software would you wish to have on it that you haven’t got now?

Do you use the internet, if so what for?

Thank you for your time. If you could please email it back filled in to  I would appreciate it.

Results from questionnaires:

I sent out 7 questionnaires and have received them back completed.

These questionnaires were a success because they have helped me to decide which programmes are needed and what most families use computer systems for.

  • They have shown me that all the families that I sent the questionnaire to use the internet either for work or leisure.
  • They also all use Microsoft word mostly
  • Occasionally use the other programmes from Microsoft office e.g. excel, PowerPoint, access and publisher.
  • Another programme a few people used I found was Auto cad which is a design and draw programme, mainly used for graphics.
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Therefore these are the programmes that I need to research into to make this project worthwhile and easier for the family to make sense of etc…

The main programmes I need to explain are the following:

  • Microsoft word
  • Microsoft excel
  • Microsoft access
  • Microsoft publisher
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • The internet

Expanded information on programmes needed:

Microsoft word: Microsoft word is an extremely easy programme to use; it’s what I have ...

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