Mr Marriani Teleworking

• Teleworking At BT:
• working from home is good productivity
• The telco claims that it saves £35m a year in accommodation
• Its teleworkers are four times less likely to take sick days
• Almost three-quarters described their work/life balance as 'good' or 'very good'.
• One in 10 respondents indicated that they would not be able to do their current job unless they were able to telework. This means that the person is able to work from home because they have children.

Advantage:

• saves health
• saves time
• anyone can do it
• Saves traveling
• Saves recruiment charges
• More motivated
• Don't have to wait to get ready

Disadvantages

• If the system crashes it would become hard
• there not all in the same place
• hard to explain

Information on Ambulance case study:

• They use the new digital system
• satiellite tracking
• Satnav
• geographical information.
• Call in's

The new technology is good for the ambulance team because they can help in many ways, in getting there, getting to the patient etc.

Southend ambulance service is a prim of new technology. They have currently have new technology for finding and bringing people into the hospitals. Southend has a new piece of technology such a new touch screen machine that can load a persons meidcal history. this has be reported as helpful and has saved many lifes at the moment and will continue to do so. They also use satiliite tracking to find other ambulances and also if some are in trouble.

http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/media/news-%20depreciated/new-ambulance-technology-could-save-lives

All the information mentioned above are used in the Southend NHS ambulance service. For example all the ambulance have a digital tracking to know where exactly they are at one that particular call out.  This helps in emergency is they are in trouble and are unable to explain where they are. They also have digital SATNAV to explain the quickest route and so that they don't get lost and loss incident patients.

Task 1 mr highmore hw

Task 1 Tool Man

John the salesman prides himself in being the best he can be. However at the moment he is struggling with all the unnecessary accessories he is carrying around with him. This can all be solved with some new pieces of technology.
The first piece of technical equipment that John will need is a PDA, personal digital assistant. This device can help him with all different information. Firstly he can put in all his appointments and each one will flash up to remind him of his appointment so that he will not miss on. He can also record audio onto this device which he can later play back and listen to and make notes with, if he wish to. Also he could access the Internet to gain certain files which would save carrying around items.

He can also invest in a GPS system. This is a handheld digital system that could john direct around the country. GPS can give John the directions to anywhere that he needed so that he could get their quicker, or avoid a certain place or even avoid the busy traffic so that he would not be late. This would save john alot of time.

A laptop is another ICT investment that John could make. On a laptop John could type up all his invoices instead of having hand written. He could also make his Friday office day quicker than expected and then he could spend more time selling rather than handling everything. He would be saving alot of time investing into a laptop and this could mean getting more sales.

He could also have a mobile phone because this way he could keep in contact with his clients by a click of a button and if anything was to happen he could let them know. Customers would value this because it makes them feel that there needs are not uncared for. He could also have a built in calculator which would save him carrying one. He might be able to send emails and all sorts of information about the business from his phone as well saving alot of time.





If john had access to the Internet he could open himself up to many things. He could then set up his own website and could take order forms online and then he could access these from his PDA or mobile Phone. He could state the latest prices online so that people wouldn't always have to ask. He would make things easier for himself. Also he could regularly check out his competition to see what prices and deals they are offering compared to john. So he would be making more money and comparing the competition at the same time.
However these are all great benefits saving time and gaining more money but there is one huge risk. This risk would be if one or all the ICT was to brake, die or out of signal it would be of no use because you would be without all your information. It is up to the business person to decide if he could take that risk.

Comparison myspace and facebook

Social Networking

Myspace

Myspace is a social networking website that allows people from around the world to talk to anyone at any time. It is a popular website that most middle-aged and young people use. It brings people of all ages around the world together. There are many different features of myspace that allow you as viewer to do.

Myspace allows you to open an account and with an account you get to view your own and everyone else profile. Your profile is the way you communicate with every. You communicate with people in many ways. The first would be to add a display picture of yourself so that your viewer knows who you are. You can create single photos or an album of pictures of you and other people. You would then add a friends profile to your friends link on your profile. It is their choice to add you as a friend or not.

Also on profile is many titles that you can fill in to tell people about yourself. The first section is called "about you" here you can express as much or as little as you wish. There is also an option of adding a music track to your profile to "jazz" it up. You can also make your profile decorative by adding a background layout to your profile.When you first set up your profile you get a choice of if you want to set your profile to private, this is so that no one can see your information who doesn't know you.

The way of contacting and communicating people would be to send a message which is very similar to sending an e-mail. You can also post comments onto other peoples profiles and they will reply on your profile. It is an simple way of communicating.

The benefits of myspace are that you can talk to anyone all over the world for free. Also you can see if the person is on the website so you will see if you will get an instant reply to a message or comment. Another benefit is that you can reveal as much or as little information as you want on your profile. The disadvantages to this social networking is that you could be talking to anyone, unless your profile is set to private, which could put you at risk to stranger. Also the response from another person will not always be instant unless the person is online at the same time you send the message.

Facebook:

Facebook is another social networking website that allows people to talk over the Internet for free. The layout of the website is similar to myspace. It allows people to set up profile which is the way of talking to people. It also have a lot of features that allows people to communicate.

Most people these days have used facebook to reconnect with some of their old school friends or distance friends they may of fell out of contact with.

The features of facebook is that you can post information about yourself on your profile for people to see. You can add animation on your profile to make it more interesting. The way of communicating is writing on someone else facebook wall. you can also have a messaging service which is like and email. Facebook has been used to join certain groups such as your old school friends. this is a way of reconnecting. You can add interacting features to your profile as well, for example and interactive pet which you look after and feed. You can also upload default pictures and certain photo albums. Certain companies you this as well for another form of contact.

The benefits of facebook are that you can talk to anyone around the world by searching them for free. You can also play games games against people instantly and over time, as well as having an instant facebook chat. The disadvantages are that you could be talking to anyone and could be putting yourself at risk. It is also confusing to use and this could be a very big disadvantage.

Comparison.

These two social networking websites are very similar because they serve the same purpose of bringing people to together. However the structure and features of the website are very different from each other. For example myspace discuss over comments where as facebook is done over a "wall". Also facebook offers such features such games and groups. Whereas mypace offer ranking of groups, music and colour layout. Some people would say that myspace is more personal friendly and facebook could be used as personal and business use. However even though they have some differences they both service the same purpose as social networking websites.

New chapter Life in the information age

Working styles

Blackberries or mobile phones in general can be used in ict in the office, not just computers. In a company the most useful tool is a database. This could be to hold employee details, contacts, find out about people, could see if something is in stock, online information, police recording information of a crime.
Database are quicker than looking in a bookcase or something, this is called search critiearer. However if some thing was not working in the database the whole database has to be shut down. jobs would take longer without ict. we could still do the same jobs but it would just be harder.
If you work in a company you get to all the technology like phones or laptops but you would have to carry them all around.

email in business- this is very important for any company it is very important because it is a main form of communication.
epos- electronic point of sale. A computerised till conneced to a price look up database, and possibly to the live stock.
eftpos- electronic funds tranfer at point of sale. a system that allows debit cards to be used to pay for goods. the funds are transferred automatlically by the machine at the till from the buyers bank account to the sellers.

newspapers today you can send your article to anywhere arround the world and would be printed by transmitted system. You can transfer a story by laptop or mobilephone in 5-10 minuates. Organisation have it technitions around the company to help with computer problems.
They are NEEDED.



doctors can do surgeries over the internet by a robotic arm controled onlines.

Mr highmore to be continued

Internet used for entertainment



BBC Iplayer



You can go onto BBC iplayer. This is means you can see any program that you might be able to watch any film at any time if you have missed it on BBC one. You can see other program you have seen recently as well. it works just like sky, you can watch it at any time, skip chapters or or pause. You can pick up any channel owned by the bbc e.g BBC 1 BBC 2 BBC 4 CBBIES etc. You can also access this from your phone like the iphone 3G. However there is a disavantage if everyone tried to view it at the same time you could free or crash the whole internet server.



Xbox

A console like the xbox can access the internet and play against one else on the internet. You can talk to person at the same time on a chatpad. It has live audie and you can type your information in. You can play against anyone, someone you may know or someone you might not know.

You can download games or you can play a new game you might want to try. You can also download films where you can play rent or buy films however there is not enough choice.





Advantages of Online gaming:

• Anyone can play


• You can play on a game you might not have


• on some consults you can access different parts of the internet

97 aged 12-17 play with gaming consults

With online gaming you can meet people you would not of met before. Some people have meet over the internet in gaming. some people have been know to meet and not liked each other. Some people have been known to get married using this service.

There is a website called mozy.com that will back up your files like pictures of word documents incase something happened. However hackers might be able to access your work. You can also have an account and you have and encription when you access your account. this makes sure your account is safe.

social networking

linkedin.com is a professional instant messaging service. It is just like messaging that is used to talk to previous known business people. This could be used for doctor, lawyer or teachers etc. This does not show your pictures like other service do. This helps you talk to other people as well as hide your appearance.

Loopted

is a service that lets people know where exactly where you are from anywhere. Its only works for on a phone.

Mr Highmore - hw ebook

ebook

This ebook is full of many chapters. It dicusses the issue of a long distance telephone switching system crashing causing all these problems. This meant that some people lost their phone connection for up to 9 hours and then when they learnt how to fix it they could not fix them all.
this ebook dicuss the problems and the exact crisis that took place in 1990 on 15th january.
This ebook is good because it is a book that could be read on the internet because the licencing law were not arround then this can be now be read on the internet as a book.

Mr highmore downloads

Downloads-Iphone

This video was on the new iphone software. It was presented by the owner of itunes and it explained exactly how to get hold of the new iphone software. This has be downloaded from itunes. it then explained how to firstly download the itunes. you can then download the software off their itunes blog. this will then link into your itunes account. However the only disavantage would be that it onlly shows how to process the iphone software on an apple mac computer and not on a microsoft computer.

This will not help all those who use the microsoft computer and who want to buy an iphone. This was a good video because it shows interactivly what to do and how to do it.

Mr highmore

Downloads on itunes
The features on itunes mean you can rent, buy or preview an up and coming films. You can rent the film for up to a month as long as you do not open it. You can buy straight off the website but this is expensive. Or you can preview a film and this can be done for free. It also shows you the lastest films and also films that you might also like because your film taste. You have to have a itunes account which is connected to your credit card. You can also get gift cards that will link to your account. Most people like to use this as a gift.

Also in the music store you can preview a song for free and you can buy seperate songs insted of an album. You can also cutomise an ablum for one artist. This is good because you can buy a mix of song. Anyone can alsomake a mixture of songs.
Itunes is the biggest selling music store in america, betting all supermarket. You can download podcast such as radio and can be viewed by any ipod because it is only audio.
The podcasts go into a podcast catergory and once you have viewed it you can delete or keep but it will not be in the new section.. You can also stream for a live podcast.Internet radio station and this is any radio station. This is also free.

Itunes also auto suggests what band or song you are looking for, this makes it quicker.
Biggest downloading store podcast, album and songs.
emusic is a similar music download site.emusic has no drm (digital rights managment).
The system is simular. However it does not have podcast or vidio it only has music or an audio book.

Audio book is good for blind people, young children, elderly people, another set of studying, you can use of driving, can be used at anytime.

Another use of downloads software download.
You can download a driver for a computer, which means the software needed to load the perriferal. Most things like printers and scanners need a driver to talk to the computer. without a driver the scanner or printer will not do anything.
tucow.com is a website that has software programs to download, however some are free (freeware) and trial (shareware) and paying for it. There is alot of different programs for security programs.

Microsoft features
updates can be found on the website for the newist solution to the new types of virus. this is called patch system because it is a updates the software for new types of virus.

Direct gov

DirectGov

what government information can you recieve?-

information on coucil

planning permision

identity?

applying for school?

nhs direct

ordering perscription

car tax

apply for a driving licience

people can pay online

The benfits of using technology for government informtion online:

quicker than applying by post

saves paper within a office (enviromentally friendly

disadvantages

putting credit details into the internet could cause fraud

digital divide

Direct Gov

The website for the uk government is directgov. this gives the information on services or informative iformation thata person needs to know.this can be local or national.

One service that could be found on direct gov is appliying for a licience with the dvla. this can be through the direct gov website. You can enter all the information such as address, phone number and the package of the service that you will need. You can register online or print off the application form and send it by post.

the benfits for this are that the application process is a lot quicker than doing it by post. You can also enter all the information straight into the application form. however a disadvantage of this is that you are giving all your information out and are at risk of identity theft. it also makes it easier for the government because it is already in a computer system so you can have it in a database. This because it easier for them to do their job.

The government also refers information to your local council. This webite refers you to your local information. the main link for new areas are the local school information such as free school meal, closeing and opening dates and general information. This website can be useful because it has the correct information and also the correct links for each area. In this age the uk government will save information by using the local links. they save money because it means they don't have to proccess or write or send the information by post.

On the direct government website you can see all types of rights and information. For people who do not know their rights this gives them access to see what they are allowed and not allowed to do. For example for maternity leave. There are certain guidelines that both employees and company have to uphold if they are planning on going on maternity leave. By using the internet to post the information it saves government money by not sending it or printing it. This saves them money and makes them enviromentally friendly.

Mr Mariani

Government

Mr Mariani- Hw

Webinars

Mr highmore- Online education

1. Bitesize
   
2. Think.com
   
3. Teach it
   
4. teach-ict
   
5. wikepedia

Bitesize

Bitesize is an online education site which helps studient studying at any school. It ranges from primary school education to secondary GCSE. They give summaries of the information and then give little key tests on information that you have just learnt. This is very useful for people studying at any school, particulary the secondary school children. Most schools encourage this website to be used by their students. It gives different aspects of learning to teachers. Also with certain subjects like, french and german they give audio examples where the words are spoken and then translated on a script. this helps students understand translations of the unknown words. this helps many different people but this is a very useful online education website.

Think.com

Think.com is website that is set up for student use. School use this to activate folders and also to share information from student to teacher. they can then access homework, worksheets and also curriculam sheets that student may need. The school that i am currently in, shsg, use this to share information and also to email teachers if students get stuck on homework to ask for advice. this site is useful because it is a source of education for the school.

This can be seen by each school. each school has a log in and then each person has a password. this is easily accesed by any student however the passwords given to the students are not ones that cannot be easily remembered. so if you were somewhere where you didn't have visial access to your password you probably would not be able to access it.

Teach-it


teach-it is a website that can be used by both students and teachers. from this the student would have access to notes on the certain subject. however there would only be certain subjects and not all subjects. however the notes that avaible to teachers are very different notes that were avaible for students. for example students had revision notes whereas teachers could have lessons plans on how to run their lesson.
This website is very useful and most schools in this area use it. however there are faults with this site if it crashes and the internet goes. This site has experienced this before.

Teach-ict

Tech-ict is another online educator. this is because it can be accessed by anyone anywhere from any school. This is where lessons can be done with game, quizes, notes or tutorials. All these are are a form of online teaching and are easy for anyone of any age to understand. They can be used by both teachers and students. Students for general notes and teachers for prepared lessons. it also comes with adio as well. it also tell you have to deal with with certain software on the computer

this can be access by anyone and does not tend to crash so it is a very reliable website. however the depth for each subject is not huge.

Wikepedia

wikepedia is used like a dictionary of information for adults and children. Its strems off information of certain information and it does tell some true and interesting information. However it does not always have reliable information because anyone can enter the information. so some of the news or information is made up by random people.

It does include pictures and links. it can be accessed by anyone and normally the search engine ranks wikepedia as their first website.

Mr Highmore - changes 2

Changes
ebay
weather

new:
task 16
task 15
phishing
sms banking

Mr Highmore- sms banking

SMS Banking

SMS banking is being able to access your bank account from the comfort of your own phone. however this does make the services limited.
the advantages of sms banking is:

• Get details such as balance
• get the last three transactions
• Pay bills such as water, gas etc

The disadvantages of sms banking:

• It is limited
• It would cost to access internet
• it would take longer to load information

Mr Highmore-Phishing

Bank phishing attacks on the rise

Phishing is another form of hacking information. It is used to gain people information, in this case from the BBC i have looked up Bank Phishing. This is where people gain other people bank details over the internet, so they can access their account online (fraud). this is a common problem latly around with people stealing other people bank details and spending someone elses money.This article states that within the first 6 months of this year 21,000 account have been attacked by Phishing.

The way phishing is done to get bank information is that a bogus email is sent by the supposed "bank" and people have to send back some filled in form including all their bank information. This gives them access to their money.The banks say they own no responsiblity for this because they do not send the email, but they do warn not to open for any fraud email. BBC also states "However, reported losses to online banking fraud fell last year by 33% to £34m. "

Mr Highmore task 15

Frog Simulator

This task was to use the frog dissection simulator. This site helps people who are either going to do the practical or people who need to evaluate the practice. It gives a step by step guide of how to dissect the frog.


This vision is as good as watching the dissection happen first hand. The simulator has 8 pages of how to dissect the frog correctly and byu each step. Also as well as the text the simulator also bring audio of the steps in a different prospectus. There also is a video of the process, however you would need QuickTime to watch this, however the school computers do not have access to this


The use of this simulator there are guide pictures with annotated notes to help people. i feel this simulators target audience is students who are possibly studying biology in depth. Below is an example picture that is used in the frog simulator:


The information given also has highlighted words that maybe people will not understand. they can then click on these words and a hyperlink is attached to the word and this will connect you to the glossary. Below is a screen shot of the simulator itself:


This website is very useful to people who are studying that type of work. This in this case might be students. This website can be accessed through search engines and schools might even give direct access to this website if they were consider doing this experiment or even if they are unable to do the experiment, so this would be the only way of seeing experiment.

Mr Highmore task 14

"Science Museum's Making the modern workd learning modules site"

The "science Museum's Making the modern workd learning modules site" website gives information or stories about how certain people have lived and their stories of the deicsions they have made.
You can go around the site and read the information and use the simulated vision stories to find out the different parts of peoples lives. The simulated version is know as the "scenes" on the websites because they can be seen more like the movies on the persons storys.
The advantages of the simulators are that they get people to think they are in the real world. they are also easier to use and understand, sometimes reading a text and one being simulated one is very different. The simulators show the story in a different persective that this is a huge advantage to some people.
However there are some disadvantages. The first being that not everyone can understand them. Some people who do not use technology do not understand how they simulators work. Also some people just prefer for the information to be writen in text and read straight to them. Another disadvantage is that you can not stop the simulators, in this case when playing the persons story you can not stop the process.
It teachs us the importance of education and how it is important to gain an education to then further our knowledge. Some people disregard the importance of education so this may open people minds the the idea of educationals importance. This therefore makes this website very useful and informative. Some people could use this to look into their vocation. As the textbook says the stories are aimed towards the Alevel students and people who are looking into their vocation.

Task 2

Tutorials
The http://www.teach-ict.com/ to find out how the conferencing are run. they are step by step guides on how to uses certain programs. These help people who have not used the program before.
however the disadvantages of the the conference is that it does not have any sound.
Another disadvantage is that if the network is down and you cannot access the website and if you cannot access the internet because not everyone can access the internet.
This differs in the process of learning. this is because it actually shows you what to do than just telling you oraly how to do it. It also differs from learning with videos.

Mr Mariani

Webinars

A webinars is a short interactive lecture based online where they are able to dicuss comment and submit information over the web. This is done all online, however this is not helpful for people who do not have access to internet.
Advantages

• you don't have to be in a packed room
• teachs more people at the same time, possibly around the world
• can be done from the comfort of your own home/bed
• some can be free

Disadvantages:

• it can only be accesed at certain times
• if you had a question on the subject you would not get an instant rely because it is done by email.
• You don't know the credablity of the person giving the webinar
• certain ones charge

Mr Mariani- Hw

Notes on "Warning sounded on web's future"

This is an article based on the world wide web and how some information can be misleading. People use the internet to find information for work, school and general fact. However Sir Tim Berners-Lee stated how people can no longer believe some information posted. As a student i used the world wide web for information on general ict and other subjects to find out general fact but somevpeople post wrong information.
Most recently the information that was posted that was miss leading is that the world is going to fall into a black hole.Or even the MMR jab for children is more harmful than benfited. However these statements are untrue.
digital divide was also mentioned in this article. this is to make people more informationally friendly. The way in which the article suggests this is by making everyone more mobile friendly.

this article was written by By Pallab Ghosh about Sir Tim Berners Lee. on the bbc website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7613201.stm

Mr Highmore- Loyds TSB

Online banking - Loyds TSB

Customs find online banking easier to handle thank going into the branch. Loyds is an emxaple of internet banking. They say that their target audience could anyone but mainly the young age groups , this is because the older aged people tend not to use the internet and feel that the going into the bank is safier. Loyds TSB state that the benfits of using their online banking are that they can have access to their balance all the time, they can pay bills online, they can view their statement online, you can link your acount to someone else so you can transfer some money. Loyds feel that they fulfill the target gorups needs. However there are some disadvantages that Loyds do not explain are that the account can be hacked by someone else and they can have your account details.

There can also be improvements that could be made for the internet banking services. The improvements that can be made to the website is that the questions can be slow answer so that could be improved by an instant help repsonse.

They would also need to make the website more secure because more and more people these days are hacking information on peoples accounts.

Recently Loyds TSB have made a safe keyring where a code is sent to the keyring and the code then has to be typed into the website to access your account. If the code is typed wrong then the account will not open. However not everyone has access to the keyring based technonlogy it is only possible to have that if you have a bigger account and if you are not a student. Students tend not to be given these because they normally have a username and password to access their accounts.

on the online banking website you can check if the website is secure. The two features that tell you if the website is safe or not is the padlock symbol either at the bottom or the top of the page. Also on a normal wesite it starts Http and on a secure website for banking or email it should be Https. if this does not appear then the website is a hacker website where they can see any information you type in.

Mr Highmore- Online banking

The advantages and disadvantages of Online banking:

Advantages

• You do not have to queue up because you can sort out all your details over the internet
• The way in which the service can be done is quicker online because in the bank problems like the system going down can occur.
• Regular track- means you can check your account everyday
• Save paper- helps enviroment
• Business find it easier to control online accouts

Disadvantages:

• Fraud- can occur easier online than inside the bank
• If you have a problem or question that would need answering you could not get an instant anwer.
• diffucult to use- some are complex to work out.

Mr highmore Ebay

Ebay
E-bay is the website that is used where people sell their belongings to another person to raise money. People who use it have an e-mail account with e-bay and they are then a user. From being a user they can sell anything as long as they have every intension on sending the product. To receive the money from customer they can either send the money on by post in a cheque or cash or they can pay by card usually by PayPal. From PayPal the money goes straight from the customer to the user. The user then posts the item to the billing address. Then after this the customer has to do an approval survey to prove that the product arrive and not been cheated out of money.
Ebay front page

PayPal

The target audience for e-bay could be anyone. This is because on the website the products/ toys are for any age. So in theory you could buy anything for any type of person on e-bay. However this doesn’t always work because to hold an account with eBay you must be 18 years of age. This is mainly to show that you are trust worthy. However there is a problem with this because if anyone was to change some figures on their date of birth they can have an account. Also the card information also does not contradict the person’s age so really anyone can have an account if they were to lie about their age.

The auction type of buying of a product is when you and other people bid money on how much you would pay for that particular product. You compete with other user on eBay and then by the stated ended line the person with the highest bid gets the product. Overall eBay fulfils the public’s need in the internet shopping because they can buy any product new or used at the same price or even cheaper.

The benefits of eBay would be that you could buy anything cheaper or at the same price. It also gets delivered to your billing address so you do not have to go outside your house. Another benefit is that they are hardly out of stock on everything because users, especially from the US or china, sell more than one of each product. However the limitation is that you have to trust the user that they are genuinely selling you that product. Fraud can also easier be committed especially if the customer does not use PayPal. The product might not be up the standards that you expected and you cannot send the item back.

Ebay is a successful shopping model because anything is possible to be bought from the comfort of your own home. EBay is also worldwide so it is a very successful shopping website, everyone would have heard of eBay.

Highmore task 11

The weather for the week

Here is the forecast for this weeks weather in my area, southend - on - sea. Todays predicts was that is was cloudy but a good wind still. i found that this was correct and that the MET office was right in predicting this. Today there were some clouds in the sky, but no rain and some slight sun. we shall see if tomorrow predict is correct as well. Below is the forecast for the week from the MET office:

I used the MET website and then typed my postcode into the search. i found this website by yahoo serach engine. This is a good website, because it tells you the weather for the week and the good estimation if the weather is correct. this website is thereofre useful for anyones uses/

Mr Highmore-traveling to london

Travel To Tottenham Court Road

I would have to get the C2C line to London Fenchurch Street, that departs at 15:54.It would then arrive in london at 16:52.

This would then mean that the train fair would cost me £9.40 for a single to London. The journey would then continue on from there to Tower Hill Tube Station. This is 2 minate walk done the same road as Fenchurch Train station. From here you would have pay £4.00 tube ticket to tottenham Road. I would have to first go to circle line heading towards liverpool station

Then from here you would have to change lines at liverpool street. You would change to Central line and wait for five stops. then from here you would have reached Tottenham Court Road. This would cost you a total of £13.40 to get to Tottenham Court road.

The websites i used to calculate my travel were the C2C website. This was a useful website as it calculated the distance i needed to travel and how long it would take . It then gave me and estimated price. This is helpful because it gives me the correct information . i found this website because it is my local train service. The other website that i used is the travel for london website which gives all the bus and tube stations and prices. I found this website through the Yahoo search engine looking for London travel. This website could be used by anyone to get information on travel in london.

Mr Mariani- Lesson 3 Task 2

Tsunami

It was only when the tsunami hit Asia that we realised the digital divide problem in the poorer countries. Information Technology was used before and after the Tsunami hit Asia. This was done by people posting warning blogs around the internet, by television and by radio, so many people in the developed parts of the country were warned to get to safe ground or look for protection. However what about those people who did not have access to the internet, television or radio how would they know the tsunami was coming? The answer to that is that they did not know because they did not have the access to technology because they simply cannot afford it. This is where the digital divide becomes part of life and death. Also the uses of technology were used during the aftermath of the destruction. The televisions were reported 24 hour reports on the activity of Asia and would also let people know that they were alive. Also the internet would have websites to post information on as well. An example of this would be the BBC bulletins. This allowed victims or people look for family member to post pictures of those missing and post information of their safety and where they were to be found. The radio was also a form of communication to let loved ones know of safety. However again not everyone would have access to this and would be unable to find family members or even able to find out if people are dead. This puts them at a great loss. The communication of another type of website was set up as well. This was the source of finding donations to put parts of Asia back together, people could register and pledge some money to save part of Asia.

Mr Mariani- Lesson 3 Task 1

Task 1

I used Google groups to search digital divide and it came up with many Usenet posts. The benefits of this are that it gives information about the relevant topic. However it is only limited because it is someone’s views on the subject. Usenet is good because it shows the most recent post and this is helpful to a person collecting data.
On the posted information you can reply, comment and view the profile of the author.
The meaning of the digital divide is the gap between the people who have access to information technology and those who do not have access. Examples of these people are those of the LEDC’s or those stuck by nature destructor.

Here is a annotated screen shot of how to use google groups to find digital divide.

Mr Mariani

Role play chats Screen shots

When i did my role play chat, it was very interesting as there were about 10 people involved and the convasation was mixed some was roleplay based but sometimes the convosation changed. But this is what happened in my role play chat: