ICT at home and at school

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The impact of ICT on the way I do things at home and school

For this assignment I will explain to you about the effects ICT has on my everyday life. I will take examples of ICT I use, at home and at school, and will explain why and how they help me in my average day. The ICT technologies that I will talk about will be:

  1. The computer
  2. The Internet
  3. E-mail
  4. MSN
  5. Flash Drive

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The computer

One of the most important things technologies I use is the computer. Its basic units are the monitor, tower unit, the keyboard, the mouse and the speakers. I also have additional units to let me relax more and do things much easier.

As well as using my computer at home, I also have to use the computers at school.

My computer at school is network. I send my homework from home to school to print out. The disadvantage is that anyone else from school can hack in to my school computer, as they have the same network, or just get my password and delete my essays, change them or corrupt all my files. I always need to remember to keep my password.

Software on my computer

Microsoft word

Microsoft excel        

Microsoft Access

Microsoft PowerPoint

Each of these programs in Microsoft Office enables me to do different tasks.

Microsoft word

Microsoft word is a very useful program which I use for nearly all my essays and coursework’s from school, just like I am writing this very essay. I also use word to write letters if ever I need to send one. A little further in the year, we shall be going on work experience and word will aid me in typing up the letter to the different companies and firms. I will not have to worry about handwriting at all and I can correct my self as many times as I want and nobody will know. If I was writing by hand, it would take me a very long time as I would have to take care of my handwriting and make sure I make no mistakes.

 I would also have to make sure my grammar is perfect and if I ever did make a mistake, I would have to start all over again. But if I was using Microsoft word, I could cut copy paste and edit for as many times as I wanted to. If I made a mistake I would just delete the word/s and no one would be the wiser. For tiny mistakes, like capital letters, the computers will autocorrect the document and for larger ones, the computer would put a red line under the word. If I made a grammar mistake, the computer will put a green line under the word. Both these lines stand out so the mistake can immediately be seen.

If I had to do this document off by hand, I would not be able to add pictures to make my presentation much better. The only way to correct my self, I would have to use correction fluid, and if I wanted to add something to my document I would have to start from the beginning again. Hand-written documents cannot be cut copy or pasted, therefore, Microsoft word, in my opinion, is much better than writing document by hand.

Microsoft Excel

I use excel in my ICT coursework which I work on three times a week at school. At the moment in ICT, I use excel to record information about Kingsway hall hotel. This comes in very useful as I can draw up lots of charts to give examples of the way the booking system works and guests arriving and leaving. Also, I use excel to draw up graphs for science, when I have to show the effects and the time it took in an investigation, geography for drawing up graphs for things like population control and maths for showing the percentages of things. Excel also comes with a built in calculator which helps me a lot by doing sums for me when I type out a formula. It is good because when it sees a pattern, it types it out automatically. E.g. I am writing out the numbers 1-50. If I wanted to, I can make excel type them all out automatically. Done manually, it would have taken several minutes, but by computer, a few seconds! This is very fast and efficient and very very useful!

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Microsoft Access

We use access in our current coursework where we store data about customers and stock. This information can be extracted in the form of reports using queries. I use access at home which substitutes for a personal diary. My personal diary I would use to store information about friends and family for their addresses, telephone numbers and birthdays. Whenever I have kept a diary, I always forgot to put it in the right places, so I would lose it. Because of this, I would miss friend’s birthdays or telephone numbers. Using access means that I will ...

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