Unit 3 ICT and Society
Your Own Use of ICT
My iPOD
Describe the ICT technology being used
My iPOD is a 20GB white iPOD. Me and my brother bought it about a year and a half ago to share between us. We decided to get that particular model of iPOD because, although it wasn’t cheap, it had a very large memory so that meant we could store both of our music on it as we like very different music.
To load the songs onto the iPOD you have to have a computer. With the iPOD comes a program to go on your computer called iTUNES. You load the songs onto this program via the disk drive on your computer. Then you connect up the iPOD to the computer and the iPOD automatically begins to download the songs onto it.
Describe how the ICT is being used
I use the iPOD mostly to listen to music, tell the time, and occasionally play games when I am extremely bored. My brother uses the iPOD for the same reasons although he likes to play the games on it more than me. I like listening to music, I often listen to it while on my paper round every morning. I have found it invaluable on long journeys, with me and my brother stuck in a car together for many hours. For the occasion when both me and my brother want to listen to at the same time we bought a splitter and an extra pair of headphones. So in that way we listen to music together. We can also, which is very useful too, plug it into the sound system in the car so the whole family can listen. I don’t just use my iPOD to store music on though. Because my iPOD has a huge memory I can put on story tapes like the Harry Potter CD’s. So we can listen to them in the car as well. I use the iPOD to occasionally tell the time too, it’s clock has been useful on several occasions when I haven’t had my phone with me.