From the above images I have chosen this one for the back ground on my home page.
Example 2. I can get this information from the Internet –website address or from Clipart – erg. The MS Word Clipart Gallery
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I was able to get this picture by going through the following steps.
Firstly I went to and typed in Football wallpapers in the search engine.
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I then clicked on google search and that took me to the next page. Where I found several links which would show me sites of wallpapers of football.
Firstly I went to a site which didn’t show me and brazilian football wall papers. I then clicked back space and went to the next link which is shown in purple above. This took me to a website by cool buddy . This site was perfect for my task as it provided wall papers of brazil. Also the pictures on this site were intresting and of good quality.
I clicked on the brazil link which took me to the page of brazillian wall papers.
And this is where I got my pictures from.
Key Skill 14 and 17
14: Search for information using multiple criteria
17: Explore information as needed for your purpose
- Search for information using multiple criteria in the browser search engine:
Example 1
Leprechaun AND Ireland
Leprechaun AND Gold
Gold AND Rainbow
Currency and Converter
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After this search for multiple criteria Iwent to the first link that came up. It took me to the following page.
This link took me the above page whicgh is basically about goal Ronaldo scored against turkey in the world cup final. This site did provide me with some usefull information about the world cup, brazil and Ronaldo. I used some of this information and pictures in my final presentation.
- The text and pictures I found on this site where usefull as they provided me with images and information about the world cup and facts on Ronaldo and brazil. This kind of material was important to me as I need it to create my website which is about the profiles of the brazilian football team.
Also this material will give the viewer a good idea of what the site is about I;e The brazilian team if I use this material on my home page.
After the above search I done another multiple criteria search.
This time I typed in A specific search : Brazil football pics. This also gave me numerous links. I visited one of the links which I found usefull as it had a great deal of good quality pictures. I have pasted some of them below.
3. Selecting Information to go into the Book
Key Skill 2 and 15
2: Decide what information is relevant for your purpose
15: Interpret information and decide what is relevant to your purpose
From the first multiple criteria search I will use the text that gives information on each of the players. For example (José Vítor Roque Júnior - born 31/08/1976; height: 1m86; weight: 76kg; team: AC Milan (Italy); A very tall, strong and quite skilled, but quite unreliable defender, Roque is one of Scolari's favourite defenders; in fact, he gained his fame while playing with Palmeiras during 1999/2000, and their coach by then was the same Scolari. After leaving Palmeiras, Roque Júnior went to join AC Milan. He's most likely to be in the World Cup list, and shall have a hard battle with Edmílson for the starting position. Etc
I will use the above text and several similar pieces as this will help me give information of each of the players in the brazil team. Also this information is usefull for profile making which is what I am doing on my website.
These are some of the many pictures I will use on my site..
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These are some of the pictures I will use on my.These will be usefull because I can use for example ronado’s picture on his profile page which will be usefull as it will show the viewer a image of the player whose profile they are viewing.
- From what you have seen so far it is clear I have established my main purpose of creating my website. IT is to show the viewer each of the eleven players of the brazilian squad and their profiles.
Example 1
I am not going to use this picture because it shows the Australian team more than the Pakistani team and that is not what my site is about.
I typed in football players in the search engine at and the above images came up. These images are useless to me as they show rugby players. I need football players images.
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I have copied and pasted various pictures and text from various sites on to my website. This has helped me to improve my site by bringing in more information.
For example:
I used the image of Rivaldo on the home page of my website to make it look attractive.
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I also reformatted a picture of Ronaldo I put on my website. I reformatted it because it was too dark.
The above screen shot was taken before the format.
Below is the after shot.
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I have also placed a counter on my website to see how many people enter the site aswell as an individual counter on each profile page to see which page/pages get the most viewings.
Key Skill 16 and 18
16: Enter and bring together information using formats that help development
18: Develop information in the form of text, images and numbers
These key skills are very similar to Key skills 3, 5 and 8, however, for 3, 5, and 8 you have been working with images and text that came from the ICT sources. For these Key skills – 16 and 18 you will be working with text and images that you found as a result of searching. This is a very important difference.
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I copied and pasted text from an internet web site as the site did not carry a copywrite.
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I will reformat the above copied text to make it look more appealing and intresting. Also there is too much information here and the reader may just scan through rather then reading all of it.scan through so I will make each point shorter.
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I will reformat the picture of ronaldo and make it larger but I will leave a fair distance between the text and the picture to make it look more spacious.
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Here are two examples of consistency. The pictures and text are both set out in the same way on both of the pages.
The home page is set out differently because the home page needs to be attractive and eye catching also it does not need to contain much information so there is much more room for a bigger picture also you can overlap the heading over the picture but on the other pages you cannot as this will not look very nice.
Key Skill 21
Present information in a consistent way
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- The writing style- Font size, Font style, Font colour are all the same.
- All profile pages apart from the home page and final page contain the same consistant font style,colour,size.
Use this template and your write-up will be presented consistently
Key Skill 9
Make sure your work is accurate and clear
Key Skill 10
Save information so it can be found easily
- I have used appropriate folder names where my work is saved.
The folder names are as follows.
My documents,
Gcse cw
Ict
Gcse course work guide 1a
IctCourseworkGuida1a
BrazilianFootballplayerprofiles
6. Advantages and Disadvantages of using ICT for this task
Key Skill 11
Demonstrate knowledge of how IT can help you in your work and be able to compare your use of IT with other methods
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IT has helped me a great deal on this presentation as it has helped me to correct my spellings aswell as giving me a variety of different words in the theosaurus. Also I was able to save my work and produce many copies by a click of the mouse. I was also able to cut and paste text/ pictures from a number of internet sources which helped me a great deal. I was able to work quickly and more easily. I was able to protect my work from viruses and breakdowns of the computer aswell as making more copies incase it got lost.
I was also able to see the errors I made as a red underline goes under the erro in spelling. For example.
- I could have also done this presentation on Microsoft Power point. I tried to do my presentation on power point and found it easier and much more appropriate so I decided to put all my work onto Power point. The work I will hand in to my teacher will have been done on Power point. The scrren dumps on this report are taken from my Microsoft Word Presentation. My power point presentation shows all the key skills that were to be met.
Example
You might have used a pen and paper. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pen and paper to write the story against using a computer?
- The disadvantages of using IT are that your work can be instantly gone if you forgot to make back up copies. A virus can delete your work aswell as your cd rom or floppy getting scratched or erased via a magnet being too close to them. Using IT also affects your health as your eyes may get damaged because of the monitor. Also some doctors believe that an electro magnetic charge given of by computers may cause cancer.
7. The Importance of Copyright and Confidentiality
Key Skill 25
When it is necessary to observe copyright or confidentiality
- Copy write is a lay which forbids people using information such as text or images which are protected by the copy write law. All the material I used was not protected by this law and was free for public use.
- Data protection act forbids a person to publish personal information about someone. The information I supplied does not tell the viewers where the people on my site live or how to get in touch with them.
Example
You have not used pictures of yourself or other young people, which could identify them
8. Error Handling and Virus Protection
Key Skill 26
How to identify errors and their causes
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You can identify errors and their causes by using tools on the computer. Tools such as a spell check. Also you may get an error number on the error notification screen. This can be dealt with via the help and support centre .
These can help you check your spellings as well as provide a thesaurus.
Key Skill 27
How to minimise risks from viruses
Key Skill 27
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A computer virus is a computer program that can spread across computers and networks by making copies of itself, usually without the user’s knowledge. Viruses can have harmful side effects. These can range from displaying irritating messages to deleting all the files on your computer. A virus program has to be run before it can infect your computer. Viruses have ways of making sure that this happens. They can attach themselves to other programs or hide in code that is run automatically when you open certain types of files. You might receive an infected file on a disk, in an email attachment, or in a download from the internet. As soon as you launch the file, the virus code runs. Then the virus can copy itself to other files or disks and make changes on your computer.To minimise the risk of getting a virus which could potentially harm your computer and cause you to lose data you should scan your computer every 3 days. You should virus scan every file you download from the internet as well as opening files from floppies or CD-ROMs. Viruses are spread through the Internet, Floppy disks, CD-ROMs as well as Email. Every file should be scanned before opening to avoid damage to your computer. Use Rich Text Format instead of DOC files which can harbor viruses. You can automatically save all of your Word documents as RTF by selecting Tools|Options|Save and choosing Rich Text Format as the default format from the drop down menu.
Do not run, download or forward any unsolicited executables, documents, spreadsheets, etc. Anything that runs on your PC should be virus checked and approved first. Any email you weren't expecting should be treated with suspicion, even if it comes from someone you know. It is worth calling whoever sent it to you to check that they intended to send you the email. Do not open any files with a double file extension, (e.g. iamavirus.txt.vbs). Under normal circumstances you should never need to receive or use these.
Do not download executables or documents from the internet. These are often used to spread computer viruses. Although JPG, GIF and MP3 files cannot be infected with a virus, viruses can be disguised as these file types. Jokes, pictures, graphics, screensavers and movie files should be treated with the same amount of suspicion as other file types. If in doubt, always ask your IT department for advice, do not open the file or email. Virus checkers can be bought from any computer shop or downloaded from the internet. There are many different virus checkers. Some only notify you if there is a virus present on your computer, others notify as well as try to repair the virus and if that is not possible they disable the virus. I would recommend Norton anti-virus checker which notifies, repairs and disables and if all else fails it tells you where the virus is so you can delete it manually. It is also vital you update your virus checker yearly to avoid getting new viruses.
9. Health and Safety Matters
Key Skill 12
You should take care of your equipment as the better condition you keep it in the longer it will last. Therefore you should never put a floppy too close to a magnet as this will damage the content of the disk. You should always take care not to damage the surface of Floppy or a CD Rom.
Having Backups of your work is very important as you never know when you will need it. For example you could lose all your work in an instance if there is a harmful virus on your computer also if you’re hard drive malfunctions causing you to reboot it. You should always backup your work on a CD Rom, a floppy disk and most importantly you should email it to yourself as this will be the up most and best way to ensure that your work is backed up.
Key Skill 12
It is important when working on computers not to sit too close to the screen as it is harmful to your eyes. Also some doctors think you could get cancer from sitting too close to a monitor. You should not leave any lose wires hanging around as a trip or fall could have serious consequences. All drinks and food should be at least 2 meters away from a computer for safety measures, this is because if a drink gets into the computer it will indefinitely do major damage to the hardware.
Mark Grid
Use this section to tick off each mark as you think you achieve it. Remember you will need to get the Level 1 skill mark before you can collect the Level 2 mark
