Communication Channels
Tools How can they aid communication? Advantages Disadvantages
Microsoft Word You can use Microsoft word to write letters, Essay, spell check, thesaurus and dictionary. One of the most used word processor, which makes it a widely acceptable form of communication. They haven’t put Microsoft word into a small devices like phones and tablets.
Microsoft PowerPoint You can use Microsoft PowerPoint to make presentations, animations, design and spell check. When using PowerPoint you can make your presentation presentable.
Easy to create colourful, attractive design using templates and themes. Easy to modify compare with other visual aids like charts, easy to drag and drop slides to re order the presentation. When you present
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When looking for the latest news, it’s easy to find by narrowing your search to counties across the UK and countries around the world. When reading the news, it could be boring by reading loads of information.
Specialist Channels
Tools How can they aid communication? Advantages Disadvantages
Video conferencing Communicate with people face to face on video links, useful than talking to someone on the telephone. Meetings can be placed without leaving the office.
Travel costs and time taken to travel is reduced.
Meetings can be called instantly worldwide with little notice. Confidential documents may need to be viewed and may be signed in person.
There may be time when you need to meet face to face.
Blogs An online journal which displays frequent comments and thoughts. Enables you to write down thoughts on any interest.
Quick and easy to set up, does not require too much technical knowledge.
People can make a comment on your blog. Whatever you put on the blog, everybody can see the comment.
People may leave inappropriate comments.
There may be dull blogs around. You might have to look first before you find some worth reading.
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Emails can be sent 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Emails can be sent to more than one person. There is no guarantee the mail will be read until the user logs on and checks their email.
Viruses can be spread via email attachments, some email providers scan emails for viruses.
Adobe Reader Adobe reader is used to open PDF documents. PDFs can be variety of files such as images, text documents, forms and books Adobe can be open on Windows and Mac computer. It can only be opened, if you want to edit you need to get Adobe Acrobat which costs money.
Excel Used to produce professional styled spreadsheets. This includes creating graphs, finding calculations and sorting/filtering data. Automatic calculations of values, graphs, marcos and simple tables. Many functions and options can be confused to use
Software Tools
Tools How can they aid communication? Advantages Disadvantages
Spell Checker To check if your spellings is correct, checks for punctuations, capital letters commas and full stops. It’s good to highlight words that are not correct, punctuations, capital letters, commas and full stops or miss out a word. It’s not great when you tell if the word is correct or not, it’s not that great at telling if you have the correct
Click “In This File”. Designate the desired pages and click OK. Acrobat will apply OCR to the scanned document. Note: the quality of the OCR can vary significantly depending on the quality of the scan.
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Though I have the knowledge to spell a range of words I often still need the help of spell check and from others to spell words. This often happens when I have not heard of the word before or seen a word
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There are a variety of ways to communicate with people and often times the type of communication chosen depends on the information being communicated and the personalities of the people involved in the communication. There are two classifications for communication, active and passive. Active communication consists of lining up schedules and attendance so people can be present. Passive communication allows people to access and respond to the communication on their own schedule. We will focus on three popular forms of communication including webinars, face to face meetings and email as means of communication.
Traditionally, book authors have had the Copyright Law to protect their creations. That changed, however, since their books have become available in electronic format. In short, the creations had been turned into information – one that can effortlessly be copied and distributed thanks to invent of computers, Internet, and (lately), cheap data storage devices. Adobe Corporation’s eBook was meant to fix that problem for the copyright owners, while letting the readers keep their rights to their copy of the book.
Simultaneous communication, also known as Sim-com is a form of communication process that utilizes both signs and sound. Quite often Sim-com has been referred to as a sign supported speech; these signs are usually in English in order to ensure that there is fluency in the language. In this, it is noted that some other non-verbal cues like the use of finger spelling and visual aids which rhyme to the spoken language can be used. Simultaneous communication has always been known to be a form of communication that is intended to help people who have hearing problems (deaf) understand what is being said. In this, it is realized that over the years, Sim-com has been able to utilize other systems of communication like seeing essential English. Sim-com has proven its advantageous use in both the deaf and hearing people because it presents both the spoken language and also the non-verbal. Simultaneous language is not only used by the deaf, but also used when communicating with students at the preschool level. This is important because these children tend not to understand verbal communication fully (Beginnings, 2014).
Digital communication has evolved in such a rapid time. Some say that it is bad, others say it is good, and other say it can be good and bad. In Gerald Graff’s and Cathy Birkenstein’s book, They Say/I say, they have a chapter that talks about digital communication. They talk about the pros and cons on it as well. Digital communication is destroying young user’s ability to communicate but it also is helping spread viral memes quickly, and bringing people together.
The problem with autocorrect technology is that, spell check can misspell a word by automatically changing the intended word, leading to spelling a completely different word. This can cause miscommunication due to misspelled words and incorrect usage of grammar. For instance, if a person types “there” in place of “their,” spell check will not recognize it as a misspelled word, even though it could still be the incorrect word. It might also highlight a word as misspelled only because it does not identify it.
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Many of my errors that have I reliesed that I reduced while I went through the semester with my papers was my grammer. When I first started in English 101 I
The art of reading doesn’t come with instructions, if it has to be with paper or digital; it is just an art to acquire knowledge. Although, some people say they prefer paper books, because they can smell the scent of every sheet of paper, they consider that it is better to concentrate, their eyes don’t get dry and they do not need to be worried about charging the phone or tablet, since the paper books are never going to die on battery. On the other hand, some others like the electronic book way, and they indicate is easier to carry on, to manipulate, the price is lower than paper books, and the fact that they can have many books in one file. At the end, both are used with the same purpose to learn or entertain, but there is some advantages and disadvantages between them.
A College has a large number of learning skills that can be used for success of each student. As an A student, I am familiar with using A’s educational resources. A few of the resources are extremely handy and adaptable in the application that a student needs. One of the resource tools that I have found most beneficial in my learning process is the A Center for Writing Excellence (CWE). The Center for Writing Excellence offers a plagiarism and grammar checker. Here, I can submit my writing materials to have them checked for plagiarism and grammar errors. I also used the grammar guide frequently. I believe that one of my biggest faults in writing is grammatical errors. The Center for Writing Excellence also offers example papers, essay development, tutorials guides and writing manuals. There are also other resources such as, Axcess Course Materials, Course Syllabus, Student Workshops, and Visual and Audio Tutorials. These tools can be found at ecampus for A College.
Similar to any type of argument, there will always be advantages and disadvantages for each of paper book and e-book. Therefore prior to outlining the advantages of ebook, and discussing how those advantages outweigh its disadvantages for the purpose of objectivity this essay will first describe the advantages of the traditional hardcopy books, which had formed some of the counterarguments, and subsequently address these issues one by one and comparatively highlight the advantages of ebooks .
The term communication is freely used by everyone in modern society, including members of the general public, scholars and management practitioners. Communication is defined as the interaction, giving and taking of information,sending and receiving of messages through verbal and non verbal means.