How I use technology at home and at school.

Technology I use Category Personal/Social/School Related Where? Description Mobile Phone Communication Personal & Social Anywhere I use it to communicate with my friends and family. Alarm Clock Alarm Personal Bedroom I use it to wake me up at a specific time. Television Entertainment Personal Living Room & Bedroom I use it to keep me entertained or to seek knowledge. Laptop Personal Computer Personal, Social & School Related Anywhere I use it to, do my homework/coursework, and chat with my friends and also to play games. Stereo Entertainment Personal Bedroom I use it to listen to my music. MP3 Entertainment Personal Anywhere I use it to keep me entertained through my journeys. By: Sekariya Sultan How I personally use these technology: Mobile Phone - I personally use this technology everyday, I use it to communicate, text and entertain myself with the games. The model of phone is Sony Erricson, for me it is easier to use than any other phone as it's stylish and simple, for example if I need to use the alarm, all I have to do is go to my shortcuts with one button and click the alarm on and edit the time. But it does have its advantages and disadvantages, e.g. the advantage of using the technology personally is that I can text, call and play games where as on the other hand the disadvantage is that it can have no signal, meaning that

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ICT Report 3A

Report 3(a) Impact of ICT on the way Students do things at home and at college/school. Introduction The role of Information Communication Technology in our world today has vastly increased to that of a merely decade ago. ICT has greatly impacted the way we do things at home and at school. We now constantly rely on ICT to find solutions in meeting our needs through the simplest and most versatile methods developed. Each technology has both its weaknesses and its strengths and so the more strengths and/or the less weaknesses a certain technology has, the more appealing it would be to the consumer. Such technologies which I use on a daily basis include: the internet, entertainment, mobile and communication technologies. Entertainment Technologies Digital Television Digital television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving video by means of digital signals. It uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a standard receiver with a set-top box; without these, the video would not be possible to be viewed. Games Console One of the most powerful games console today is the Xbox 360. It consists of a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, random access memory, data storage facilities, components and accessories. Each element of the console cleverly collaborates to

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All of this technology means that a blind or partially sighted person is able to do everything

How ICT Effects A Person With Special Needs In this piece of coursework I will be examining how ICT has helped a person with special needs. The person I will be looking at is Paddy McGinty, who suffers from Juvenile Macular Degeneration. This causes the light sensing cells in the back of the central region of the retina to malfunction and will eventually die, which leads to gradual loss of central vision. This basically means that Paddy can no longer see something in full if he looks at it directly, and only if he looks at it from the side. He is also colour blind when looking directly at something, but can see it in colour if he looks at it from the side. This means that he has to be very organised when dealing with clothes so not to put on the wrong colour item. Paddy found out he was colour-blind at 16, when he took an eye test when applying for a job as an electrician. They found out that he couldn't distinguish between colours and he failed the test and couldn't become an electrician and so he became an engineer. Although colour blind, he got his driving licence when he was 22. In 1988 he was registered as Partially Sighted and 2 years later he was registered blind. Being blind, in government terms, means that he is 80% disabled, so this means that he couldn't do many things that he did before, such as drive and do the work that he did before. He became less able to do

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Selecting the best software for a theatre business.

Introduction Bob Dixon owns a small Theatre in Woodford Green, it is called "Woodford Green Theatre". His theatre is not the best in London but it is highly rated. He has 1 theatre and hosts 1 show every month. His theatre may be quite small but it is old and worth a lot of money, a lot of the theatre has been refurbished and made more modern, but the only thing still not up to date is his way of working.. Since he opened the theatre he has used a paper based system for everything. He has used it for financial records and writing out the tickets and everything in between. He needs a computer to, have an automated system of seating, and to keep record of booked tickets and seats. Problem Identified The problem with Bob's way of keeping record is that he uses a paper based system and he has to file this all the time, if he loses one piece of paper he can be really be in trouble. On a paper based system he has to calculate on his own, if he changes a number he will have to re-do the whole sheet again. And if he loses something he will not be able to get an accurate result in any area and this could mean that he thinks he has a profit when he actually has a loss. If he keeps his paper based system he will have a lot of trouble in the future and will find it hard to show his records. If he keeps the paper based system then he possibly may need to employ a new person just

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Spreadsheet Examples

Spreadsheet Examples Example 1 - A builders charge rate A self-employed builder uses a spreadsheet to keep a record of his daily jobs. He charges £12.00 an hour and a call-out charge if he has to do a job after 6.00pm A B C D E F G Customer Charge Hours Cost of Cost of Call out Total 2 name per hour worked labour materials charge bill 3 4 5 Law £12.00 2 £24.00 £4.00 - £28.00 6 Derrick £12.00 3 £36.00 £18.00 - £54.00 7 Allen £12.00 4 £48.00 £40.00 - £88.00 8 Crowe £12.00 £12.00 £15.00 £15.00 £42.00 9 George £12.00 2 £24.00 £12.00 £15.00 £51.00 0 1 Daily 2 total £263.00 This example shows a spreadsheet used by a builder to keep track of his daily jobs. The columns B, D, E, F and G contain the data type of currency set as they hold the charge for each hour, the cost of labour, cost of materials, call out charge and the total bill. Column A has a data type of Text as the customer names are stated and Column C is set as data type Number as numbers are included. To work out the cost of labour, a formula was used. This was =SUM (B2*C2). Then, for the rest of the column to be worked out, drag down the fill handle from D5 to D9 and the results should automatically be worked out. To work out the total bill another formula was used. This was =SUM(D5*F5). Then, for the rest of the column

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GCSE IT syllabus revision notes.

GCSE SHORT COURSE - Higher Identify the parts of an ICT system and their functions Hardware, Input, process, output, backup storage, memory. Software : operating systems and application packages Central Processing Unit Keeping the software working Handling control signals, arithmetic operations, storing data Application packages : Word Processing Edit, cut and paste, formatting, spell check, mail merge Database Record structure, field, key field, file, sorting, Queries(AND, OR & NOT), reports Data coding, validation, verification Spreadsheets Cell, row, column, formulae, calculations, replication, cell format, graphs. Desktop Publishing Frames, fonts, text size, styles, import of text and graphics, resizing of graphics. Graphics packages Drawing, painting, CAD, bitmapped/vector graphics Types of software and when to use it Application packages, utility software. Input Devices Keyboard, concept keyboard, mouse, tracker ball, graphics tablet, joystick, touch pad, light pen, scanner, digital camera, digital video cameras, touch screen, OMR, OCR, bar code scanner, magnetic stripe reader, microphone, MICR, smartcard, MIDI Output Devices Monitors (LCD, TFT, CRT), Printers (dot matrix, inkjet, laser, plotters) projectors, speakers, motors Storage devices Floppy disk, hard disk, CD magnetic tape (zip an JAZ), DVD, Data capture Preparation, collection

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Being a 6th former

Being a 6th former The common stereotype of a 6th former is one that is portrayed as a person that generally does no work. An example of this is the BBC's production of Grange Hill where the 6th form at this school are never involved in any work based scenes, but instead are seen in the common room chatting and generally doing nothing. This idea is very wrong. In addition, I will do my best to correct your view. Many young people my age were un-certain what lay ahead after the 2 year GCSE course. The options that lay ahead were many. All seemed to have their advantages, some had disadvantages. Me as an individual was very reluctant to go out and find employment, and college did not seem appealing. Nothing seemed appealing except The ' easy ' option. - The 6th form, and without having to make any new friends and without having to fill heaps of forms this was the option for me. My memories as a Year 7 seeing 6th formers swan around as if l they owned the place had soon vanished and the bundles of free time that I dreamt of sitting in the renowned common room playing cards/pool/darts and drinking coffee had gone. I like a huge percentage of my year were in for a shock. The free time turned out to be less than a few hours a week, and the Pool table and dartboard were none existent. I had been surprised - but not pleasantly! However, I gritted my teeth together and got on

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

The impact of ICT on the way you do things at home and at school In this essay I will how explain how ICT has affected my life. I will how I use ICT in my life and how it has helped me. I will explain my first four important ICT applications that help me make my life easier. These are the Internet, E-mail, Messenger and Word Processing. These help me in all ways such as perfecting my homework help me get in touch with friends and family. ICT is used everywhere in life such as my home which are in many electronics such as DVD, Digital Television, Mp3's. ICT has made my life such easier and has had a very big impact because it gives me a better understanding of how things work in life. Home/School personal Microsoft Word Software Word processing has made me perfected in my presentation in my school work such as coursework and homework and writing letters. A word processor is a program which lets you write a piece of writing using tools such as spell check, dictionary, thesaurus which you can access in a click of a button. To word process you will need to use a keyboard which has the whole alphabet and numbers which you press make words on the computer screen. Since I have used a keyboard for a long time I keep on improving by tying skills which helps me write letters very quickly. By using a keyboard is very faster than using a pen and paper which is why I greatly use

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Identify Terence Findlay.

Identify Terence Findlay Problem Pantry Pride Pizza Delivery is the best pizza delivery and restaurant in the East Sussex area, which is run by Mr. David. Mr. David has a problem with his staff and the orders. Because the restaurant is the best in the area it is very busy, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings and there are no computers and the staff take the orders and addresses to deliver to down with a pen and a piece of paper, so sometimes the orders got mixed up or the wrong orders were written out or sent to the wrong house and when it came to calculating the prices the staff found it very hard to work out total prices and take off the discounts, and they had to copy the receipts by hand and they often get lost during the delivery. Considerations of the solution to problem The pizza delivery could get a computer right by the phone so that the member of staff who picks up the phone can type in the information and add up the prices and take off the discounts on computer and this would be neater so the people can read it and it would be more accurate so they would charge the right price to customer and deliver the pizzas to the rite people. Another solution is to hire more staff and to insert more phones for the busy nights like a Friday or Saturday so that the staff

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The database I have created is for a movie shop. It will contain information about the members of the shop the information about the VHS's and DVD's.

A database is a quick, reliable way of storing data on a computer or a network. The old fashion way of storing data was in hundreds of paper files, this was very unreliable, time-consuming, and generally time more stress and hard work. With the aid of modern databases, you have the security of having back-up data ready in the event that the data is lost, you can find the data you need, usually with a click of the mouse and the most stress you will be under will be the stress of updating the data on a regular basis. A database usually consists of forms or tables with numbers and text. An example of database software, and usually the most common means, is Microsoft(r) Access. The database I have created is for a movie shop. It will contain information about the members of the shop the information about the VHS's and DVD's. It will help the user to identify all the members of the movie company and the movies owned by the store. When the database is completed, it will enable the user to search for a particular member or movie. It will also enable the user to put all the entries in any desired order. The data that is needed is the name of the VHS or DVD, the video or DVD number, the classification of the movie, the type of film, and the price of the movie. You will also need the member details. This includes their first name, surname, age, address, and home phone number, mobile

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