Organisations: school,home, environment

Organisations: school,home, environment

1. Education

   • Coursework
     • Helps present with DTP and gives advice through the internet
   • Distance learning
     • Signing up to an online course
       • Learn from anywhere (no tarvel needed)
         • Leraning done in own time and at own speed
         • online chat rooms to discuss ideas/problems
           • widre range of courses
       • Problems hard to solve with no tutor
         • students feel isolcated
           • lack of motivation to continue the course
   • Services
     • online tutorials
       • Tutorial may be animated and interactive
         • Ready and availble
           • No tutor required
             • Common questions answered via on screen demo
         • Cannot ask questions
           • Cannot skip parts
           • Often proceeds at a pce that may not suit you
     • online assesments
       • Questions presented on screen for students to answer, computer marks them
         • Test availble 24/7
           • No paper wastage
           • immediate results
           • Records mistakes, detailed stats produced
         • Impersonal way of testing
           • Expensive + difficult to set questions
           • Cannot mark essays
           • Lots of organisation and lots of computers for large class
     • Virtua learning environemtn (VLE)
       • Complete educational course onlien without a tutor needed
         • Learn anytime anywhere
           • teacher does not need to be present
             • variety of text, graphics, audio and visual effects
         • 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           • out of date material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
       • Provides set of tools for teachers to set learning material for a topic, student can proceed at own pace

2. Event organising

   • Database of people taking part
   • Spreadsheet to help finacial planning
   • DTP to design advertisements for event (POSTERS)
   • Word-processing software to create rehearsal sheets
   • Computer controlled lighting boards + sound system
   • Website
   • MIDI

3. Registration systems

   • Record saved onto the system
   • Can see abnormal absence patterns that need investigating
   • Swipe cards that use Optical Mark Reader (OMR)
   • Login to computers electronically registers students
   • Know where to locate the pupil if needed
   • Stats are legally required. this can be done by ICT

4. Management Information Systems

   • Store information in a database
     • Pupil personal info |(address, name, DOB, etc)
     • Home details (telephone)
     • Contact details
     • School details (form, classes, etc)
   • Info can be found quickly

5. Data logging systems

   • Measurements during experiment/investigation
   • Advantages
     • Automatic
     • Continuous readings over long periods of time
     • Doesn't forget to take the reading
       • More accurate readings
         • Sensors in dangerous areas for humans
           • Readings can be taken very quickly
   • Disadvantages
     • Faults can go unnoticed

6. Control systems

   • Environmental
     • Heating system
       • too cold (sensed) actuator turns heater on
   • Alarm systems
     • senses person alarm goes off
   • Microprocessor
     • Dishwasher/mircrowave

7. Weather forecasting

   • measure temperature, pressure, wind speed etc
     • weather stations, satellites, weather balloons
   • Charts/graphs created and weather can be predicted
     • warnings sent out if weather is dangerous (flooding)