Edexcel Syllabus - Portfolio Task d: Your Local Community ICT Systems in Everyday Life: Your Local Community You are going to investigate how ICT systems affect everyday life in your local community. You will need to: Create a report that describes three or more ICT technologies open to all members of the community. Evaluate the extent to which these ICT technologies meet the needs of the community. You will gain most marks for investigating and evaluating as wide a range of technologies as possible. This task should take no longer than 180 minutes to complete. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio ICT and the Community File Size File/EP1012-technologies_table_2.gif 38.5 KB

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Edexcel Syllabus - Portfolio Task: Legislation ICT Systems in Everyday Life: Legislation In this task you are going to create a report that: explores the relevance of ICT legislation evaluates the effectiveness of the legislation from four different viewpoints. You should complete all cards in your own words. The more detailed your evaluation, the more marks you will gain. This task should take no longer than 180 minutes to complete. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful Links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio Legislation

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External Portfolio work: Edexcel Syllabus - Portfolio Task a: How you use ICT at home and at school or college ICT Systems in Everyday Life: How you use ICT at home and at school/college. You are going to investigate how ICT systems affect everyday life. You will need to: Create a report which describes the range of ICT that you use in your personal, social and work/study lives both at home and at school/college. Evaluate the extent to which these ICT technologies meet your needs. You will gain most marks for using as many categories as possible and for including a wide range of technologies. Here are the categories. This task should take no longer than 180 minutes to complete. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio File Size File/EP1001-edexcel-psandw.GIF 18.5 KB File/EP1002-categories-of-technology.GIF 21.2 KB File/EP1003-technologies_table.gif 35.5 KB

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External Portfolio work: Edexcel Syllabus - Portfolio Task b: How an Adult in Employment uses ICT ICT Systems in Everyday Life: How an Adult in Employment Uses ICT You are going to investigate how ICT systems affect everyday life. You will need to: Create a report which describes all the main uses of ICT that an adult has in their personal, social and professional (work) lives. Evaluate the extent to which these technologies meet their needs. Explain what effect ICT has had on their working style. (Compare new methods with old ones to show how their working style has changed.) Explain why the ICT technologies are better or worse than the methods they used to use. Your exam board expects you to use as many examples of ICT as possible from as many different technology categories as possible. Here are the categories. This task should take no longer than 180 minutes to complete. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio NB: IMPORTANT: Please make sure that you get permission from your chosen person to include information about them unless the information you are using is already available to the public. File Size File/EP1006-edexcel-psandw.GIF 18.5 KB File/EP1007-categories-of-technology.GIF 21.2 KB File/EP1008-technologies_table_13badult.gif 45.5 KB

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External Portfolio work: Edexcel Syllabus - Portfolio Task c: How a person with special or particular needs uses ICT ICT Systems in Everyday Life: How a person with special or particular needs uses ICT You are going to research how a person with special or particular needs uses ICT to help them in their life.  You will use your research to create a report which will form part of your exam portfolio. You will need to: Write an introduction about the person you have chosen. Describe the technologies that they use to help them in their personal, social and work (professional or school) lives. Evaluate the extent to which these technologies meet their needs. Your exam board expects you to use as many examples of ICT as possible from as many different technology categories as possible. Here are the categories. This task should take no longer than 180 minutes to complete. If you cannot find anyone you know that can fit into those areas, why not choose Professor Stephen Hawking as your person. You can start looking for information on his particular needs here. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio ICT and people with special or particular needs NB: IMPORTANT: Please make sure that you get permission from your chosen person to include information about them unless the information you are using is already available to the public. File Size File/EP1009-special-needs-psw.GIF 10.7 KB File/EP1010-categories-of-technology.GIF 21.2 KB File/EP1011-technologies_table.gif 35.5 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Part 1: Survey Planning OCR Coursework: ICT Survey Planning You are going to conduct a survey of how people use the Internet. You will need to: Research how people use the Internet Make a database for your research data Sort and search your data to answer particular questions Sort and search your data to present your results Make a spreadsheet to do calculations and show the results This first task concentrates on: what you want to find out. who your intended audience are. It should take no longer than 30 minutes to complete. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 2: Data Collection OCR Coursework: Data Collection You are conducting a survey of how people use the Internet. The stages that you are following are: Research how people use the Internet Make a database for your research data Sort and search your data to answer particular questions Sort and search your data to present your results Make a spreadsheet to do calculations and show the results In your survey planning task you should have decided on the sort of questions you need to ask. This second task concentrates on creating the actual questions. Your questions should: enable you to collect data that will work easily in a database enable you to collect numerical data that will work easily in a spreadsheet be easy for people to answer. One way to achieve this is to set questions that have a small set of answers. This task should take no longer than an hour to complete. You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio The Internet File Size File/EP1013-quairre.jpg 82.7 KB File/EP1016-connectiontable.jpg 71.2 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 3: Data Entry OCR Coursework: Data Entry You are conducting a survey of how people use the Internet. In tasks 1 and 2, you will have already created your questionnaire and obtained results for 50 people. You will have also collected data for at least 10 ISPs showing the services they offer. In this task you are going to: create a database so that you can enter and process your survey data. link the data from your people survey with your research about the ISPs. Your database will need to be a relational one and the link data should be a combination of the ISP data (e.g. Tiscali) and service data (e.g. Broadbandx10). See example below. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload any files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio Instructions 1 Instructions 2 Instructions 3 File Size File/EP1017-relationship.jpg 16.2 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 4: Data Processing OCR Coursework: Data Processing You are conducting a survey of how people use the Internet. In previous tasks you have: created your questionnaire and obtained results for 50 people collected data for at least 10 ISPs showing the services they offer created a relational database entered your questionnaire results and linked them to your ISP data. In this task you are going to: Sort and search your data in order to answer your original questions (see your Survey Planning and Data Collection tasks). You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload any files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio Data Processing Instructions

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 6a: Effects of ICT Development on Business OCR Presentation: Effects of ICT Development on Business What you need to do There are 5 tasks in this presentation section. Effects of ICT Development on Business Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication You will use the notes from these tasks plus any additional material you have collected to create your final multi-media presentation. In order to achieve maximum marks with your presentation you need to do detailed research into the effects of ICT development on four types of user in each of five categories. This means that you will be researching a total of 20 different types of user. Your users can be individuals or groups. You may use the same type of user (e.g. mobile phone users) in one or more categories (e.g. Business and Personal Communication) providing the way the technology is used is different in each category. This task concentrates on the effects of ICT in Business. Examples of types of user might be: mobile phone users online banking users  laptop users. You will need to find out: What technology they use. Why they use this technology. How they use this technology. How the technology meets their needs. What the disadvantages are of using the technology. How they would manage if they did not have this technology. How people who have never had this technology manage. How to do your research 1. Your research needs to include: ICT sources e.g. CD-ROMs and the Internet Non-ICT sources e.g. books, newspapers and people 2. You must use more than one source so that you can check each for accuracy and bias. 3. You will also need to create a bibliography which is a list of all your information sources: If it’s a book, record the title and author If it’s a newspaper, record the title and date If it’s a CD-ROM, list the title If it’s a person, record their name and what they do (remember to get their permission) If it’s a website, keep a record of the web address 4. When you search the Internet make sure that you use the search engine. 5. You will need to provide evidence to support the information you are using in your presentation. As well as your bibliography, support material could include: screenshots printout notes photocopies cuttings. 6. Once you have collected your information you must explain, with screenshots where needed, how you did the collecting. Your findings in this task will form part of your final multimedia presentation. Use both ICT and non-ICT sources and remember where you are getting your information from and how you are getting it. You will be asked to list all your sources of information and describe how you collected it at the end of this task. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload your files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio File Size File/EP1018-search_engine_2.gif 14.6 KB File/EP1019-search_engine_1.gif 11.8 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 6b: Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities OCR Presentation: Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities What you need to do There are 5 tasks in this presentation section. Effects of ICT Development on Business Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication You will use the notes from these tasks plus any additional material you have collected to create your final multi-media presentation. In order to achieve maximum marks with your presentation you need to do detailed research into the effects of ICT development on four types of user in each of five categories. This means that you will be researching a total of 20 different types of user. Your users can be individuals or groups. You may use the same type of user (e.g. mobile phone users) in one or more categories (e.g. Business and Personal Communication) providing the way the technology is used is different in each category. This task concentrates on the effects of ICT on Community Activities. Examples of community users might be: library users cyber cafe users. You will need to find out: What technology they use. Why they use this technology. How they use this technology. How the technology meets their needs. What the disadvantages are of using the technology. How they would manage if they did not have this technology. How people who have never had this technology manage. How to do your research 1. Your research needs to include: ICT sources e.g. CD-ROMs and the Internet Non-ICT sources e.g. books, newspapers and people 2. You must use more than one source so that you can check each for accuracy and bias. 3. You will also need to create a bibliography which is a list of all your information sources: If it’s a book, record the title and author If it’s a newspaper, record the title and date If it’s a CD-ROM, list the title If it’s a person, record their name and what they do (remember to get their permission) If it’s a website, keep a record of the web address 4. When you search the Internet make sure that you use the search engine. 5. You will need to provide evidence to support the information you are using in your presentation. As well as your bibliography, support material could include: screenshots printout notes photocopies cuttings. 6. Once you have collected your information you must explain, with screenshots where needed, how you did the collecting. Your findings in this task will form part of your final multimedia presentation. Use both ICT and non-ICT sources and remember where you are getting your information from and how you are getting it. You will be asked to list all your sources of information and describe how you collected it at the end of this task. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload your files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio File Size File/EP1022-search_engine_2.gif 14.6 KB File/EP1023-search_engine_1.gif 11.8 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 6c: Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles OCR Presentation: Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles What you need to do There are 5 tasks in this presentation section. Effects of ICT Development on Business Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication You will use the notes from these tasks plus any additional material you have collected to create your final multi-media presentation. In order to achieve maximum marks with your presentation you need to do detailed research into the effects of ICT development on four types of user in each of five categories. This means that you will be researching a total of 20 different types of user. Your users can be individuals or groups .You may use the same type of user (e.g. mobile phone users) in one or more categories (e.g. Business and Personal Communication) providing the way the technology is used is different in each category. This task concentrates on the effects of ICT on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles. Examples of users in this category might be: teachers ICT employees. You will need to find out: What technology they use. Why they use this technology. How they use this technology. How the technology meets their needs. What the disadvantages are of using the technology. How they would manage if they did not have this technology. How people who have never had this technology manage. How to do your research 1. Your research needs to include: ICT sources e.g. CD-ROMs and the Internet Non-ICT sources e.g. books, newspapers and people 2. You must use more than one source so that you can check each for accuracy and bias. 3. You will also need to create a bibliography which is a list of all your information sources: If it’s a book, record the title and author If it’s a newspaper, record the title and date If it’s a CD-ROM, list the title If it’s a person, record their name and what they do (remember to get their permission) If it’s a website, keep a record of the web address 4. When you search the Internet make sure that you use the search engine. 5. You will need to provide evidence to support the information you are using in your presentation. As well as your bibliography, support material could include: screenshots printout notes photocopies cuttings. 6. Once you have collected your information you must explain, with screenshots where needed, how you did the collecting. Your findings in this task will form part of your final multimedia presentation. Use both ICT and non-ICT sources and remember where you are getting your information from and how you are getting it. You will be asked to list all your sources of information and describe how you collected it at the end of this task. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload your files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio File Size File/EP1020-search_engine_2.gif 14.6 KB File/EP1021-search_engine_1.gif 11.8 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 6d: Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs OCR Presentation: Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs What you need to do There are 5 tasks in this presentation section. Effects of ICT Development on Business Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication You will use the notes from these tasks plus any additional material you have collected to create your final multi-media presentation. In order to achieve maximum marks with your presentation you need to do detailed research into the effects of ICT development on four types of user in each of five categories. This means that you will be researching a total of 20 different types of user. Your users can be individuals or groups. You may use the same type of user (e.g. mobile phone users) in one or more categories (e.g. Business and Personal Communication) providing the way the technology is used is different in each category. This task concentrates on the effects of ICT on people with special/particular needs. Examples of types of user might be: people who are visually impaired people of limited mobility. You will need to find out: What technology they use. Why they use this technology. How they use this technology. How the technology meets their needs. What the disadvantages are of using the technology. How they would manage if they did not have this technology. How people who have never had this technology manage. How to do your research 1. Your research needs to include: ICT sources e.g. CD-ROMs and the Internet Non-ICT sources e.g. books, newspapers and people 2. You must use more than one source so that you can check each for accuracy and bias. 3. You will also need to create a bibliography which is a list of all your information sources: If it’s a book, record the title and author If it’s a newspaper, record the title and date If it’s a CD-ROM, list the title If it’s a person, record their name and what they do (remember to get their permission) If it’s a website, keep a record of the web address 4. When you search the Internet make sure that you use the search engine. 5. You will need to provide evidence to support the information you are using in your presentation. As well as your bibliography, support material could include: screenshots printout notes photocopies cuttings. 6. Once you have collected your information you must explain, with screenshots where needed, how you did the collecting. Your findings in this task will form part of your final multimedia presentation. Use both ICT and non-ICT sources and remember where you are getting your information from and how you are getting it. You will be asked to list all your sources of information and describe how you collected it at the end of this task. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload your files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio File Size File/EP1024-search_engine_2.gif 14.6 KB File/EP1025-search_engine_1.gif 11.8 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 6e: Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication OCR Presentation: Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication What you need to do There are 5 tasks in this presentation section. Effects of ICT Development on Business Effects of ICT Development on Community Activities Effects of ICT Development on Employment Opportunities and Working Styles Effects of ICT Development on People with Special/Particular Needs Effects of ICT Development on Personal Communication You will use the notes from these tasks plus any additional material you have collected to create your final multi-media presentation. In order to achieve maximum marks with your presentation you need to do detailed research into the effects of ICT development on four types of user in each of five categories. This means that you will be researching a total of 20 different types of user. Your users can be individuals or groups. You may use the same type of user (e.g. mobile phone users) in one or more categories (e.g. Business, Community Activities, etc) providing the way the technology is used is different in each category. This task concentrates on the effects of ICT on Personal Communication. Examples of types of user might be: PDA users laptop users. You will need to find out: What technology they use. Why they use this technology. How they use this technology. How the technology meets their needs. What the disadvantages are of using the technology. How they would manage if they did not have this technology. How people who have never had this technology manage. How to do your research 1. Your research needs to include: ICT sources e.g. CD-ROMs and the Internet Non-ICT sources e.g. books, newspapers and people 2. You must use more than one source so that you can check each for accuracy and bias. 3. You will also need to create a bibliography which is a list of all your information sources: If it’s a book, record the title and author If it’s a newspaper, record the title and date If it’s a CD-ROM, list the title If it’s a person, record their name and what they do (remember to get their permission) If it’s a website, keep a record of the web address 4. When you search the Internet make sure that you use the search engine. 5. You will need to provide evidence to support the information you are using in your presentation. As well as your bibliography, support material could include: screenshots printout notes photocopies cuttings. 6. Once you have collected your information you must explain, with screenshots where needed, how you did the collecting. Your findings in this task will form part of your final multimedia presentation. Use both ICT and non-ICT sources and remember where you are getting your information from and how you are getting it. You will be asked to list all your sources of information and describe how you collected it at the end of this task. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload your files to the file card. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio File Size File/EP1026-search_engine_2.gif 14.6 KB File/EP1027-search_engine_1.gif 11.8 KB

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External Portfolio work: OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 6f: Final Multimedia Presentation OCR Presentation: The Effects of ICT Development You should have completed 5 tasks dealing with the effects of ICT Development on a variety of user groups or individuals. This task concentrates on combining all your research and creating a final multi-media presentation for submission as part of your exam portfolio. Useful links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio Powerpoint Standard Working Practices and File Management File Size File/EP1028-OCR-Presentation-Table.GIF 18.4 KB File/EP1029-presentation_plan.jpg 39.1 KB

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OCR Syllabus - Portfolio Task Part 5: Analysing your Survey Data using Spreadsheets OCR Coursework: Analysing your Survey Data using Spreadsheets In your survey of how people use the Internet, you will already have: created your questionnaire and obtained results for 50 people collected data for at least 10 ISPs showing the services they offer created a relational database entered your questionnaire results and linked them to your ISP data  sorted and searched your data in order to answer your original questions. In this task you are going to: use spreadsheet functions, formulae, graphs and charts to process your data and answer your overall questions (see your Survey Planning and Data Collection tasks) write a report, using your spreadsheets and charts, explaining your findings. You will need to take screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the image cards attached to this task. Upload any files to the file card. Useful Links to help you: ICT Encyclopedia Perfecting Your Portfolio Data Analysis Using Spreadsheets

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Unit 3 AQA Exam Practice: Newsletter In this task you are going to create a newsletter that explains the main purposes of the laws that cover the use of ICT both at work and in the home. Read the links below then complete the cards attached to this task to prepare your newsletter General Exam Information Instructions for Practice Assignment You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task.

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Unit 3 AQA Exam Practice: Presentation In this assignment you are going to create a presentation which details the impact of ICT developments on Personal Communications. Read the links below then complete the cards attached to this task to prepare your presentation. General Exam Information Instructions for Practice Assignment You will need to upload any images you want to use to the image card and any files you create to the file card attached to this task.

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Unit 3 AQA Exam Practice: Report In this task you are going to create a report which describes the technologies available to access and exchange information, and carry out transactions in relation to Entertainment and Leisure in society. Read the links below then complete the cards attached to this task to prepare your report. General Exam Information Instructions for Practice Assignment The technologies you should research are: The Internet The World Wide Web  Email  Mobile phones – SMS and WAP  Digital broadcasting  PDAs and organisers  Information storage on CD, DVD, minidisk and MP3  Touch screens

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