Illuminate Skateboard Company - Word Processing Project
ILLUMINATE SKATEBOARD COMPANY WORD PROCESSING PROJECT MONTHLY NEWSLETTER GCSE IT DECEMBER 2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS A) IDENTIFICATION 2 A.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION 2 A.2 SOFTWARE/HARDWARE 3 A.3 TOOLS 3 A.5 OTHER TOOLS 3 B) ANALYSIS 3 B.1 GENERAL APPROACH 3 B.2 INFORMATION AND DATA SOURCES 3 B.3 STRUCTURE 4 B.4 TYPE OF DATA 4 B.5 SUMMARY DATA FLOW 5 B.6 PROBLEM SOLUTION 5 C) DESIGN 6 C.1 USER NEEDS 6 C.2 SYSTEM DESIGN 7 C.3 MODULE DESIGN 8 C.4 NOTES 9 C.5 SYSTEM TESTING 0 D) USE/IMPLEMENTATION 0 D.1 PROJECT DIARY 0 D.2 TEST LOG 0 D.3 USER/OTHER COMMENTS 0 E) EVALUATION 1 E.1 COMMENTS 1 Appendix 1 - Template i Appendix 2 - Mail Merge test results ii Appendix 3 - Macro Set up iii Appendix 4 - Test result - Newsletter iv A) INDENTIFICATON . The Problem The Manager of Illuminate Skateboard Company in Milton Keynes came to me and said: "Our Company newsletters are rubbish. They are typed on an old typewriter, look unprofessional and give the company a bad name. What's more they make me look bad. I've decided you're the best man for the job. I need a professional newsletter with company logos, pictures and clear format. Please help!" To solve the problem I will use Microsoft Word to produce the newsletters and make them look professional and neat through the use of templates to standardise format and presentation. 2.
Describe major barriers to and the incentives for the development of ecommerce.
Describe major barriers to and the incentives for the development of ecommerce. The advantage that e-commerce will provide is speed. The Internet and the World Wide Web gives opportunities to exchange messages. Even with the slowest connections, doing business electronically is much faster than traditional modes. With the increased speeds of communication, the delivery time is minimized. Also any product can be found for sale on the Internet. Information appearing on the Internet can be changed rapidly. This gives company the ability to inform customers of any changes to the service that they are offering. This also allows for them to update marketing and promotional materials. Savings the second advantage of electronic commerce many company offer to save on costs. By using the Internet, marketing, phone, postage and printing costs, can be reduced. Disadvantages of E - Commerce Privacy and Security is a main source of trouble is customer concerns with privacy and security. Anything sent over the Internet is sent through several different computers before it reaches its destination. Hackers can steal credit card or checking account data as it is transferred into computers that hold the same information. Security on the Internet is much like security for a home. There is a point when the effort outweighs the advantages. As with a home the owner will usually stop adding
Application Packages
Application Packages An application program or package (group of programs) enables the computer to tackle a specific task, such as writing a letter. Word Processing - for writing letters, reports and other documents. Examples: Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, FlexiWrite. Facilities include: easy editing of text, font & size changing, find & replace, spell checker, word count, mail merge (to import text from a database while printing each copy of a document). Data Handling - for creating databases. Examples: Microsoft Access, FlexiData. Facilities include: creation & editing of fields, sorting records and query searching, also ability to display data in graphical and chart form. Graphics Package - for drawing and painting. Examples: Microsoft Paintbrush, Corel PhotoPaint, Paintshop Pro. Facilities include: colour palette, various drawing, painting and editing tools. Desk-Top Publishing (DTP) - for producing posters, leaflets and newspapers. Examples: Microsoft Publisher, Adobe PageMaker. Facilities include: ability to import text and images from other programs or from disk plus ability to position them individually on the page. Usually have some text editing tools included. Spreadsheet Modelling - for producing invoices and cost plans. Can be used to create models, simulations or expert systems for others to use. Examples: Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3. Facilities include:
Computing Project – Designing a Ticketing System for a Cinema.
Computing Project - Designing a Ticketing System for a Cinema. Introduction .1 Background; I have chosen to undertake a project where I redesign the ticket system within a cinema. I have been to many cinemas around the Croydon area, some of the more larger cinemas; for example the Warner village cinema in Valley Park Leisure Complex 21, Hesterman Way, Croydon, Surrey, -have a computer system that is quite advanced compared to those of smaller cinemas. An example of a smaller cinema is West Croydons Safari cinema London Road Croydon Surrey. This cinema has been around for years without much of an improvement in the computer system used; their system is not as advanced as the Warner Village cinema. An example difference in the systems is that the safari cinemas uses an older interface, the dos interface. Warner Village however uses a win32 environment interface. The safari cinema has been around for years without much of an improvement in the computer system. This type of old system as in the safari cinema would work more efficiently and prove more productive if it were redesigned. Other concepts within a cinemas workings could be incorporated within the cinema ticket system. The setting of the problem is based upon the ticket system, which can be greatly improved on in many areas. The staff on the ticket sales desks would be more motivated with a more improved computer
Business Communications.
Business Communications Within a business the staff has to communication with each other, to get the best results for the company. There are four different types of communication within a business and they are: oral, video, written and graphical. Oral Method Explanation Advantages Disadvantages Telephone A device, that allows you to speak to somebody else. This is usually used to communicate externally. Speaking to the person allows you to hear their reaction to different things. You may not be able hear the other person as clearly. You may also be distracted by something else, which is going on nearby. This could mean you not hearing something important Face to Face Speaking to somebody else in person. This is used for internal use. You can ask questions if you don't understand. It also allows you to go in to more detail as you are talking face to face Can't allows hide what you think about what has been said Meetings Everybody that needs to know something meets in the same place Allows everybody that needs to hear something hear it at the same time. This allows questions to be asked and answered at the time. Some people may not be able to get to the meeting. This may mean their points may not be taken into consideration. Pager of bleeper Quick method of contacting somebody with a message instantly They are easy to use. They are quick to the sent
Nokia - In today's communication industry, the growth of the Internet has established a Universal medium for access to all types of information.
3.6h Nokia In today's communication industry, the growth of the Internet has established a Universal medium for access to all types of information. Nokia uses many ways of communicating, the use of mainly technology to contact many departments of the company. This is done mainly via the new technology of video conferencing. No matter where you are you can have a face-to-face meeting via a computer and a modem and a video camera. Allowing you to see each other over a computer screen. As Nokia is situated around the world with different headquarters for each functional department. For communicating, reporting information to one another the use of the Internet and telecommunication enables better communication channels. For communication to take place via e-mail within a department, employees have meetings with their superior or senior managers. From here senior managers have meetings with their superior, until all information has been reported to Administration and to staff who have access to all. The use of data capability provides the means to deliver the enriched content that drives development of new services. The uses of telecommunication networks are therefore undergoing fundamental changes: they are converting from circuit switched to packet switched IP connectivity and from single purpose networks facilitating mainly voice transmissions to multi- service networks
ICT & Myself
ICT & Myself Introduction My name is Peter Sutton; I am a student at King Williams College, Isle of Man. I use ICT all the time; I am woken by a digital alarm clock, my food is cooked in a digital controlled oven and I am driven to school in a computer assisted car. I also use ICT in less mundane tasks, for example recording, mixing and mastering my own music and then make it available to the globe community on my own website (www.theprosthetics.net). On the coming pages we will see how I use ICT for social, personal and work purposes at home and school. Personal at Home - The Internet The Internet is a global collection of interconnected computers, both personal and servers, using the TCP/IP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). The Internet started in 1969 as four host computers. Increasing rapidly over the past 35 years the Internet has grown to tens of millions of systems worldwide. The Internet is a collection of networks, some larger and more important than others, thus we get the Internet hierarchy; this is best shown in a graphical form (see right/above). At the bottom of the hierarchy, the personal computer uses a phone line (Digital or Analogue) to "dial-up" and connect to a POP. A POP is a Point of Presence, owned by large communication/Internet Services Provider companies (For example BT or Wanadoo, ISP for short); they create backbone
International segmentation and positioning.
International segmentation and positioning Types of products on the Internet Products sold on the Internet fall into two categories: Physical products Businesses such as Amazon.com and Ebay.com take advantage of selling physical products by using the Internet as an interaction with an immense network community. Digital goods and services This includes information goods and services such as financial information, reference and learning material, entertainment and multi media services and distributed database services etc... In addition innovative digital products also include on- line gaming, chat rooms and search engines etc... Different strategies are used to price and market the goods, as the above products are easy to copy, yet difficult to value. Strategies include: customisation and bundling, bundling valuable content along with advertising to provide 'free' goods, which introduces different versions of the same product to suit different users, charging subscriptions and also crucially use market mechanisms to assist the setting of prices. The Internet is a means of global communication, using the global (cluster) generic approach. Market similarities are identified and serviced as though national boundaries do not exist. There is no national segmentation or positioning. Segmenting at the macro level includes: * Geographic location grouping, based on
'Save the teenagers from the evil inventions' - essay on the social impact of computing
"Hi! What did you do last night?" "Oh I talked to someone whom I've never met before. He's so cool I've got to meet him!" "Wow!" This might not make sense to you but it is a conversation you might hear in a teenage community. It is a lot different from those days when everyone used to read books, and a terrible problem has been recognised due to the adult's ignorance. The fast developing computing systems have enabled us to carry out many tasks - easier research, word processing, shopping from home... etc., and amongst them is 'easier communication'. For older generations, it probably means an easier way to keep in touch with their old friends or as a mean of exchanging information and ideas. This was probably the main intentions of ISOC (Internet Society), the current internet director. Despite this, by the age of about 15, most children are so sophisticated in their internet use and that they are curious and adventurous, anxious to be independent and sometimes rebellious. For these reasons, many people, especially the teenagers, are using 'chat rooms' on the internet - where they can talk to people they don't know online. It is now the third most popular way of using the web. The advantage is that the person you are talking to doesn't know who you are. Many people who are less confident in speaking in front of the others find that it is easier to start building their
evaluation of a manual library system
EVALUATION OF EXISTING SYSTEM There are advantages as well as disadvantages in managing the data manually. ADVANTAGES: > As the work load is heavy more staffs are appointed; less unemployment > The materials required are very inexpensive so this will save lot of money which is used up in buying expensive materials. > The chance of miss using the data is less as the records are kept in a filing cabinet and the key is with the librarians and the session supervisors. DISADVANTAGES: > Requires more staff, so more salary has to be given. > Filing cabinets are needed to store the records so the space in the library will be less. > It is time consuming when searching the library card as they are not ordered in a regular manner. > Errors are made while calculating the fine; no separate column for fine calculation and the book returned after the due date. > The librarian faces difficulties in searching the books which are not returned as she has to go through the records of each and every student. > Mistakes might be done while swapping the library card. > If the records are over written the records might be dirty and difficult to understand. SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS > Re-organize the files in the filing cabinet. > Retraining the staff. > Increase the space provided to store records. OBJECTIVES There are several objectives that I want to achieve by computerizing the
