ICT and You

For this work, I am going to write about how I use ICT in my everyday

life. I will be looking at how I use ICT at Home and at School.

I will also identify how I use ICT for: -

> My own personal use (this is when I use it just for me)

> Social use (this is when I use the ICT with other people)

PC Technology

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I use Microsoft Excel a lot, which helps me to do graphs in science

for coursework and I also use it at home for sorting my pocket money

and spending so I am organized with my money and don’t overspend. It

is very easy to use and your work is always very neat and presentable

which is important for my coursework. I also use Microsoft Word for

many things in school, these include: writing out coursework,

completing homework and English essays. Microsoft word offers a great

easy program, which is easy to use and also you can put text, pictures

and photographs onto a word document.

I like using MS FrontPage to design and make web pages and websites

this can be done personally for me or socially for a group of people.

Designing website can be relaxing and stress free or can be

frustrating and stressing, all depending on what type of web site it

is.

Internet

The internet is very helpful to me in school because I can search up

useful and useless information an instant using search engines like

“google” the downsides to sites like these is, you have to be specific

otherwise you could end up having thousands of pages of junk for

example if your searching for the official Manchester United site and

only type in “Manchester United” you will get any pages appearing

containing the words “Manchester” and “United” you can get around

about 3,460,000 results, when the words “Official Manchester United

Football Club Website” only pages containing them words are found,

there are around about 69,400 results just by being a bit more

specific. I use this at home, personally to keep up-to-date with

breaking news of my favorite football club and in school personally

for my business coursework.

At home I enjoy being on MSN messenger to talk to friends and Family

worldwide, msn is good because it’s faster than email and cheaper than

phone calls, the disadvantage is that my internet connection depending

where I am and what time of the day it is could be slow I have a 576k

ADSL modem so there’s no worries for me but slower internet

connections like a 23.3k modem could have a delay or even a bad