Advantages and Disadvantages of using ICT for this Task
Advantages of using ICT for my task
My project was to create a booklet about things we are going to do while we are in Naples.
- Initially, I had to search for information using search engine. In fact it was functional because I could search for anything I desired.
- As I did not want to be unable to find my work and to be founded it easily, I had to save my work into my folder to keep it away from losing it.
- Using a computer made my work look neater and I could alter the layout until it seems right to me.
- Using ICT allowed me to make use of different font size and font style in my work. I used Arial Narrow as it was easy to read and clear. As a result, using computer to make my project has helped me in many ways for instance changing the font style and font size and making them in bold, italic or even underlined text.
- As I am somewhat fast at typing with keyboard this allowed me ...
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- Using a computer made my work look neater and I could alter the layout until it seems right to me.
- Using ICT allowed me to make use of different font size and font style in my work. I used Arial Narrow as it was easy to read and clear. As a result, using computer to make my project has helped me in many ways for instance changing the font style and font size and making them in bold, italic or even underlined text.
- As I am somewhat fast at typing with keyboard this allowed me to finish my project early.
- In my project I had to include pictures as a result I had to find images from the internet so I used search engine to find pictures.
- By cutting and pasting or by dragging and dropping to move text to another location has aided me not to write once more the same text consequently it did not take me long time to write the same thing again and again.
- As I am not slightly good at spelling I had to use spell-checker to ensure that my project has no errors.
Disadvantages of using ICT
- As I said before, images must be included in my project so I had to find some pictures that are relevant to my project but unfortunately when I hardly found relevant pictures for my project they all were copyright. It was extremely hard to find the owner of the copyright. So I decided not to use them. Instead of using picture from the internet I used simple graphics in Word Processing Document in wmf format.
- Using ICT sources to find information for my project took me a lot of time as many sites were either not useful.
Copyright and Confidentiality
Copyright is the right to make copies of someone’s work.
On the whole, novels, computer programs, lyrics of songs and magazine and newspaper articles, music, art, picture, layout used for a book or any work and broadcasts of a work. They are copyright. It belongs to the person who created it.
So can we copy or use a copyrighted work? The reply will definitely be no unless you ask the person who owns the copyright for his permission. If he does not agree you to use it so in this case you cannot use them. As it is incredibly hard to find the person who owns the copyright as a result I have never try to ask someone for permission to use a copyrighted work.
Personal information is information or ideas about identifiable person. It might be your names and address or more personal data.
I ought not to include any personal information about other people in my work for the reason that it is restrictedly against the law to display other people personal information in your work as it may affect them in many ways and it is secret between you and the person who told you.
College can keep your personal information when you enrol. The college is not allowed to give your information to someone else. However if there a serous purpose such as crime issues. Your GB doctor also keeps your personal information. They are usually kept on a computer to make it more safe and uncomplicated to find your information by specific purpose.
Data Protection Acts (1984, 1988, 200) keep personal information relating to living people. There are rules to see this data. If you are a data controller there eight rules you need to follow:
- Use the data you have carefully and officially
- Use it for some degree of purposes
- Make sure it is enough, related and necessary
- Make sure it is correct
- Do not carry on it for longer than needed
- utilize it in agreement with the right of the data subject
- keep it safe
- do not send it to other countries without enough defence
We are allowed to look at the data about us. This is called the “right of the subject access”. The controllers might charge us to see at our data. This is called “reasonable charge”. If the controllers do not allow you to see in a reasonable time, we can complain to the Data Protection Commissioner as there four exceptions to the right of subject access:
- Data that have an effect on the way crime is banned and detected.
- Data that have an effect on catching or judging criminals.
- Data that have an effects on considering or gathering monies and responsibilities.
- A number of data about healthiness and social work.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when you copy someone else’s work and you act as if it is your work. It is important to say exactly where you have copied from because you are pretending work is not yours. Do not think that other people cannot know if you have copied it. Teacher can know if this work by you or not from the writing style and s/he knows your level of English you have particularly if you are an ESOL student.
For me I prefer not to copy other people’s work because you are not using your ideas and if you copy someone else’s work this is called plagiarism. AS I always wanted to have my say in any situation. You are just cheating yourself!
Error Handling and Virus Protection
Virus is a program written by someone his aim of this work is to cause damage to your computer system or delete your file. You can easily get it from emails and it is able to move from computer to computer easily.
We can simply avoid the risks of viruses:
Use an anti virus software to check your hard disk often.
- Scan any email attachment before you open it especially when email is mysterious.
- Do not download software from the internet.
- Do not accept free copied of software from doubtful person.
- Do not use floppy disks when you do not know where they came from.
Health and Safety Matters
There is no doubt that using computers are really useful specially nowadays, as we live in a fast world that time does not wait for us. On the other hand, computer can affect us in many ways such as health problem. Using computer for a long time without break can cause back pain, eye strain and Stress. While I was using computer I tried to:
- Take regular break from using computer
- Sit properly when using computer
- stay away from sitting in a badly way
- Avoid using keyboard for long periods
- Having the monitor at the right height
- Having the screen in the correct position
As well as making sure to avoid health matters from using computer we also need to be aware of safety matters. While I was using computer I tried to:
- Avoid putting water near the computer as there are many electricity things
- Do not use a place where there are many trailing wires which I could trip over them
- Avoid putting many plugs into the same socket
Care of Equipments
- Clean the mouse commonly
- Do not finger the screen
- Turn off the equipment when you have finished
- Do not eat or drink around IT equipment
- Avoid using the equipment when your hand is wet
Getting Help
Not Losing Information
Screenshot of my backup:
