Uses for ITC and why

Newsletters:  King’s courier, News, detailed, paragraphs.

Website: Facebook, for people who are willing to visit the site, and people who have access to computers.

Presentations: PowerPoint communicates to a large audience, in one room.

Flyers: A summarised form of advertising

Poster: For visual advertisement where passer-by’s walk.

Music stores: More convenient, quality is higher, editing easier.

Health and Safety issues on Computers

Safety:
Food and Drink at computers. Way to avoid this is by not doing it.
Loose Cables. Avoid this with cable management, which is keeping them tied up and out of the way.
Overloading the power sockets. Way to avoid this is by not plugging 4 billion things into on socket.

Health
RSI, We will get this because we spend ages on computers playing games and all sorts of other devices.
Arthritis, we will get this because we sit on horrible chairs that don't provide any support for our backs causing us to get back problems.

Health vs. safety

Health Risks
1.RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) in hands. To prevent, take short breaks every 30 seconds.
2. Eye problems. To prevent, put anti-glare on your computer screen.
3. Back problems.To prevent, get an ergonomic chair.

Safety Risks
1.Loose wire that someone could trip over. To prevent, tidy wires away from walking area and band them together.
2.Eating and drinking around computers. Eat and drink away from computers
3.Licking power sockets. Keep tongue away from electrical sockets.

Health and Safety Problems and IT use

Safety Problems:
-don't eat or drink next to a computer.
-loose cables that can be tripped up on. Solution-tie them up or use wire management systems
-don't overload plug sockets

Health Problems:
-back pain. Solution-use ercanomic chairs
-eye problems.Solutions-take regular breaks and use anti-glare layer on monitor.However modern technology helps prevent eye problems anyway.

Must come up with example about fact that IT is used to help ideas.
-newsletters(a detailed paragraphed text) eg.kings courier-a newsletter because it has gaps in it's deliveries.
-presentations eg. powerpoint-great for large audiences
-flyers eg.(short, 'snappy' text)
-music scoring- you can easily edit mistakes made
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Section 6: Safety

Problems

1) Food and Drink
2) Loose cabling
3) Overloading

Solutions

1) Do not have food and drink
2) Tie up cables, cable management
3) Do not plug to much equipment into adapters

Class Notes 15/8/11

HTTP: Hyper Text Protocol

Social Networking: When you become friends with somebody on a social networking account(''add as friend'') you create a connection between both your profile account and your new friends' of which others can see.

Wiki: Colaboration: the combining of peoples skills and  is not chronological. It's a creation of peoples work.

Web 2.0: LIVE eg. people want to go online to see what has just happened 5 seconds ago around the world.

Blog: Chronological: It's a chronogical diary

Digital Media Uploading: Uploading videos,music and pictures onto the internet to share with users.eg. uploading video to youtube.

Web 2.0

Html is a way of opening up information for free, by using browsers

Can send info using the web version 1.0, you can only send one way, so that everyone can see it.

Web 2.0 is the idea where instead of writing, you create areas of the page, then an RSS feed gets the info and puts it into the areas.  WEB 2.0 IS LIVE. There not static, they’re active all the time. It’s social networking. You have a connection to your friend’s friends. An extended network. Channels feed in information into our networks.

 For collaboration. People’s information being combined.

A blog, like a diary, it’s chronological, from one perspective.

 Wiki is like a blank pad. People can write whatever, whenever. A live web 2.0 document.  Its collaboration.

The web is for sharing digital media. The physical side of digital media is dying. It’s now mostly on the internet. 

Difference between the old social networking and the new social networking is like Facebook vs. Twitter. Twitter broadcasts to the whole world, and with Facebook only your friends can see your stuff. This means with Twitter, we can communicate with new people you’ve never met.