Organisations: school,home, environment

Education
1. Coursework
  1. Helps present with DTP and gives advice through the internet
2. Distance learning
  1. Signing up to an online course
    1. Learn from anywhere (no tarvel needed)
      1. Leraning done in own time and at own speed
      2. online chat rooms to discuss ideas/problems
        widre range of courses
    2. Problems hard to solve with no tutor
      1. students feel isolcated
        lack of motivation to continue the course
3. Services
  1. online tutorials
    1. Tutorial may be animated and interactive
      1. Ready and availble
        No tutor required
        Common questions answered via on screen demo
      2. Cannot ask questions
        Cannot skip parts
        Often proceeds at a pce that may not suit you
  2. online assesments
    1. Questions presented on screen for students to answer, computer marks them
      1. Test availble 24/7
        No paper wastage
        immediate results
        Records mistakes, detailed stats produced
      2. Impersonal way of testing
        Expensive + difficult to set questions
        Cannot mark essays
        Lots of organisation and lots of computers for large class
  3. Virtua learning environemtn (VLE)
    1. Complete educational course onlien without a tutor needed
      1. Learn anytime anywhere
        teacher does not need to be present
        variety of text, graphics, audio and visual effects
      2. Answers may take a long time to come
        out of date material
        trainng to use VLE takes time
        Equipment can fail and leave student without a lesson
    2. Provides set of tools for teachers to set learning material for a topic, student can proceed at own pace
Event organising
1. Database of people taking part
2. Spreadsheet to help finacial planning
3. DTP to design advertisements for event (POSTERS)
4. Word-processing software to create rehearsal sheets
5. Computer controlled lighting boards + sound system
6. Website
7. MIDI
Registration systems
1. Record saved onto the system
2. Can see abnormal absence patterns that need investigating
3. Swipe cards that use Optical Mark Reader (OMR)
4. Login to computers electronically registers students
5. Know where to locate the pupil if needed
6. Stats are legally required. this can be done by ICT
Management Information Systems
1. Store information in a database
  1. Pupil personal info |(address, name, DOB, etc)
  2. Home details (telephone)
  3. Contact details
  4. School details (form, classes, etc)
2. Info can be found quickly
Data logging systems
1. Measurements during experiment/investigation
2. Advantages
  1. Automatic
  2. Continuous readings over long periods of time
  3. Doesn't forget to take the reading
    1. More accurate readings
      1. Sensors in dangerous areas for humans
        Readings can be taken very quickly
3. Disadvantages
  1. Faults can go unnoticed
Control systems
1. Environmental
  1. Heating system
    1. too cold (sensed) actuator turns heater on
2. Alarm systems
  1. senses person alarm goes off
3. Microprocessor
  1. Dishwasher/mircrowave
Weather forecasting
1. measure temperature, pressure, wind speed etc
  1. weather stations, satellites, weather balloons
2. Charts/graphs created and weather can be predicted
  1. warnings sent out if weather is dangerous (flooding)

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	Created by Matthew Stentiford about 7 years ago