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
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life, I will take aspects of the ICT that I use and I will explain why
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The following is a list of all the things that my adult uses for Ict