DIARY

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Week 7

Tuesday. Isobel's class had Duncan going over our presentation for working in the IT industry. Went down to the learning zone and continued with making a logo on fireworks. Steve's class carried on with our working with others project. Numeracy started looking at charts and graphs, did a few questions



Thursday. Carried on with working in the I. T. industry, made a logo and a cover page then loaded the logo onto the cover page and submitted it .Started  task 7 KidsGamers.
Web design with Kerry started working with html. Tutorial with Beverley carried on with KidsGamers.



Friday. Working with others with Steve went and seen Quality to confirm dates for our working with others project. Isobel's class carried on with price difference of computers built yourself or bought from a shop .Duncan's class compared upgrade prices and looked at installation process flowchart.  

Monday, 6 October 2014

Week 6

Tuesday Putting the finishing touches for our PowerPoint for Isobel .Working with others with Steve got into our groups to discus our project. Numeracy did the rest of assessment and passed.

Thursday, Uploaded open office to our virtual PC and change some of the features on it .Robert Burns talked to us about the WHEEL. Finished of my users assessment in Kerry's class ,she has still to look at it . Tutorial keeping diary up to date.

Friday Steve's class we carried on with our working with others project. We held a meeting and took minutes and allocated each person a job role in the group.  Isobel's class we upgraded the ram  in a computer and finished of a search for computers to build yourself. Duncan's class finished of assessment 7.2. HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Sunday, 5 October 2014

Week 5

Tuesday passed first assessment for Duncan's class. Started putting things together for assessment for Isobel. Still no further forward with our working with others project for Steve. Started doing some worksheets on compound interest and looked at the formula in numeracy.

 Thursday. Continued with our assessment for Isobel doing a PowerPoint presentation about jobs in the I. T. industry. Started doing a storyboard for web development with Kerry then went to tutorial with Isobel talk about plagiarism.

Friday. Started to form our groups for our an awareness project for Steve. Change my motherboard paper foe Isobel as it was wrong then started researching the price of a computer with pacific components already installed.  Started assessment 7.2 with Duncan.

Thursday, 25 September 2014

task 2


Task 1


week 4

 Tuesday did virtual pc with Isobel all morning then in the afternoon we did some spread sheets
did some team building exercises with Steve. Numeracy did the first assessment then percentages work sheet.
Thursday work on the virtual pc again, did some work sheets on accessibility of the control panel and explaining how to do changes to it. With Kerry we did some work on web design and finished the first assessment
Friday did an interview scenario with Steve it went ok. Did some more work on the virtual PC with Isobel. Started looking at the next assessment with Duncan.

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

impact of IT


IT development
Positive impacts
Negative impacts
Email
Faster, cheaper, group e- mail ,
No letters written ,spam ,threat to jobs
Online shopping
Do from home, delivered to your house ,Discounts ,
Local shops ,Online fraud , Wrong item or size sent
Online banking
Do money transfers , check your account ,pay bills
Fraud , jobs ,if crashes cannot do what you want
Smart phones
All off the above , photos , keep in contact we people ,music + videos , safety
Break easy , high risk theft , can be expensive to buy and run  
Laptop computers
Portable ,light , plays discs
Short battery life ,target for thieves ,
Netbook computers
Very easy to carry and store ,
Can’t play discs ,small screen and key board
MP3 music
Down loads fast ,small files ,free
Some quality issues
Social networking websites like Facebook
Make friends ,Easy to talk to people ,Follow celebs, play games
Trolls, bullying ,grooming ,lies ,
IM programs like MSN Messenger
Fast ,Free  ,
No people contact ,RSI
Search websites like Google
Easy to find info ,
Adverts,
Information sites like Wikipedia
Easy to find info ,
False info