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Discuss how simulations are useful training tools and how they differ from other information sources. Place this discussion on your blog.

Option 2:

Assume the role of a farmer in the simulation, 3rd World Farmer www.3rdworldfarmer.com/. Make budget decisions and track annual reports to try to build wealth and ensure the survival of your family.

Add a review of the simulation on your blog. How good a job does it do of reflecting the reality of being a third world farmer? Justify your response.

In pairs or groups of three, complete the following. Use collaborative software to assist with this task. Email your finished assignment to your teacher.

Scenario 1:

John is a 65 year old man who has a large family with several grand children. Johns’ family is spread out across Tasmania living in different regions and one of his son’s lives in Victoria. John likes to stay in touch with his family, but as they all lead busy lives he often finds getting hold of them on the phone difficult. When the family does meet up John uses up many rolls of film with all the photos he captures of his grand children. John would love to stay in touch with his family more easily and to quickly be able to share the photos he takes with both his family, who are all on the internet, and his friends who like John, don’t own any computers.

Task 1:

Your task is to write a report detailing which ICT products you think John would find useful. For each product:
write a justification of your selection,
detail how the product would be useful to John,
discuss why you think he would want to use the product
describe the where and how for any training he would need to be able to use the product.

Also include a brief review of some alternative product choices you may have selected and provide resons why you did not select these products.

Finally finish with a write up of which software you used to assist with this group work and how useful you did or did not fins the software.Note:

- There is more than one possible solution to this, and it is your justification of your choices that is the most important.

- You will find this easiest to complete if you research a range of products and options.

- You must provide references during this work.

Task 1:

Use your internet search skills to compile a list of where security threats come from. Ranks the items on your list from the biggest threat to the smallest. Place a copy of your list onto your blog.

Task 2:

Have a look at the following presentation on security, be aware that most of the information is in the notes. You will need to save the file to your file and open it from there to be able to view the notes section – Security Presentation. Answer the following questions on the presentation as full sentences in your blog:
What are the three main categories of computer threats mentioned?

Which threat do you think would be the hardest to protect against and why?

Slide 5 lists the top ten security threats to businesses, which ones of these do you think are also a threat to personal computers in peoples homes. Explain why for each of your answers and rank the threats you select from biggest to smallest.

Write a brief summary of the difference between security breach recovery and disaster recovery.

What a some reasons a business may continue to let a security breach occur for a short time?

Task 3:

From the last slide in the presentation in task 2 select an emerging security technology to review. For the technology you have selected prepare a presentation showing:
How the technology works
Ways the technology is currently used
Ways the technology may be used in the future
Problems with the technology
How the technology could be improved on in the future, or details of a technology (existing or a new idea of your own) that could replace the technology you are reviewing.

Present your presentation in a similar format to the example in task 2, with brief information on the slides and the full details in the notes section. Ensure you have sufficient information in the notes section that someone else could give your presentation for you. Email your teacher your presentation or place on your blog if you prefer.

Task One

Moores Law – What is it?

Simply put Gordon Moore predicted, that the number of transistors in processors (and hence their speed) would be able to be doubled every 18 months. This was latter updated to also say that as the speed doubles the prices will halve. The following graph demonstrates how the power increases predicted by Moore have happened. (Not Attached)

For a more detailed explanation of Moores Law and other aspects that relate to Moores Law read the information at the following link (you will need to go to the related links as well):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore’s_law

Conduct any further research that is necessary (remember to reference) and write a one page reply to one of the following, sharing your opinion and give reasons for your opinion. Place this on your blog.

Moores Law will continue to hold true in the future

If Moores Law holds true for the next 10 years, describe what you think society will be like in 10 years time.

Tasks 2:

Write a list of all the technologies you can find that have emerged or changed a lot in the last 6 months. Write a second list of all the technologies you can find that are about to emerge in the near future. Add this as a blog entry.

Task 3:

Look at the following mind map. Select two of the items on it and complete the activity, answer the question or write a report on the topic. If you choose to take a look at old issues, answer the question then state how you think this relates to how we will move forward. The orange items are research source suggestions.

If you prefer you may look up a newer emerging technology and negotiate a relevant project with your teacher. Place this on your blog.

Task 4:

Write a short answer to each of the following questions. You should have 2-3 pages in total. You may need to do some further research to answer some questions, remember to reference if you do this. Add this to your blog.

How much do you rely on technology in your life at the moment?
What do you use on a daily basis?

How do you think you would survive without modern technology?
What sorts of technology will you use in your chosen occupation? If you don’t yet have a career in mind, just pick one for this exercise.
How do think that technology has shaped society?
Think about how different society would be without current technologies.
What sort of technology changes do you think will occur in the workforce and how do you think they will alter society?

How do you think technology will continue to shape society into the future?

Look at the following websites for an insight into some of the types of cyber crime:

http://www.cyberquoll.com.au/hub.htm

http://www.cybernetrix.com.au/

Task 2:

Use the information from task 1, your existing knowledge and further research to create a list of all the different types of cyber crime. For each type of cyber crime you have identified create your own description of what that type of cyber crime means. Add this to your blog.

Task 3:

Identity theft is a growing area of cyber crime and is one that can have the biggest impact on the victims. Do some research on identity theft then create an advert for others your age alerting them to the dangers or identity theft that includes the following:

What is identity theft?

How are the victims of identity theft impacted?

Tips on protecting yourself from identity theft.

This advert can be in the form of a brochure, poster, animation, movie or any other form you like. Place your advert on your blog.

Task 4:

The most likely form of cyber crime to impact on the lives of teenagers today is cyber bullying. Create a survey to determine how aware students at your school are of cyber bullying and if they have been bullied or bullied others this way.

As this can be a sensitive issue you will need a way to ensure that peoples replies are anonymous so that they are happy to answer honestly. Consider the various digital tools that you could use to assist with this. When you have finished designing your questionnaire get your teachers permission to survey other students.

When you have completed your survey use appropriate digital tools to analyse the results (your teacher will help you with this). Discuss your survey results on your blog.

Task 5:

Use the survey results from task 4 to work out where the worst area of cyber bullying is at your school (eg. sms, email, chat etc.). When you have worked out what the biggest cyber bullying problem is devise a strategy to reduce the amount of cyber bullying that occurs.

- Using software designed to help with producing web pages such as Front Page or Dream Weaver.

This section will only look at using Front Page to make web pages. To create a web page in Front Page you will first need to load up front page and then start a new blank page. You can add pictures, text and backgrounds in a simular way to how you would add these to word. You can add as many extra pages as you require and put the information onto these pages in the same way.

When you have created all the pages you need you can link them using something called a hyperlink (what you click on when you are on the internet to move between pages). Your link can be made using icons, pictures or words for the user to click on. When you have the item you want users to click on created, right click on the item and select the option of creating a hyperlink. You will then be able to tell the computer where you want the link to take the users.

Task 1:

FrontPage looks like the following picture. Using FrontPage is the same as using Word for most things but as there are some differences. Here are a few of the basics of using FrontPage to get you started:

To add a blank page simply go to the file menu, select new then select blank page from the list that appears to the right of the screen. Then you can then edit to show whatever background, pictures and text you want on your page.

To change the back ground to something a bit more interesting than a white screen go to the Format menu click on Background and then select the colour, texture or picture you want. If you are adding a picture as the back ground you will already need to have the picture you want to use saved to your file.

To create a hyperlink (the link that people can click on to move to another page) you will first need to have made the pages you want the link between and to and have both pages saved. When this is done go to the page you want the link to be in and highlight the text or picture that you want to make the link from. Right click on your highlighted text or image and select Hyperlink. From this screen select the webpage you want to link to.

Move between the open pages you are creating by clicking on the tabs along the top of the screen.

All the rest of what you will need to do (add text, pictures, graphs etc.) is completed the same way you would in Word.

Important! – Before making your webpage create a folder to store it in. Place a copy of all the pictures you use in this folder, before adding them to your web page. If you don’t do this you will have problems with sharing your site later.

Create a webpage with a least two linked pages on a topic you are personally interested in. Save your finished web page in your ICT Web folder.

Task 2:

It is all well and good to go sticking lots of cool pictures, flashing text, bright colours and text on your webpage when you are learning how to use FrontPage, however their are some design principles and research findings you should consider when creating web pages. Read through the following articles, each is one page only, no need to go through all the links, though read at least three of them:

http://www2.mlc-wels.edu/jgrunwald/page.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

http://www.websites.ac/websites/frameset.html?design_prin.html

Create your own summary of good webpage design. Your summary should be a single webpage that uses as many of the principles of good web design as possible. Your page should list the ten items you think are most important to consider in web page design and your reasons for selecting these items. Link this into the website you have created in task one.

Submission:

You can choose to link to your webpage from your blog or to email it to your teacher. Whichever way you choose you will need to include all your pictures that you have used in your submission or they won’t show up on the finished page. If you place it on your blog you will also need to find an appropriate place to host your site. Search for hosting sites or ask some of your class mates what they use.

a) Reflect on factors that influenced the family’s health and survival, what strategies did you use to keep them alive? Write your answers in a word document.

b) Discuss the above factors in relation to current events in Haiti. You will need to research the current events in Haiti in order to do this. You are expected to find two websites that you think have good quality information about Haiti, and reference them in your discussion.

c) Explain why you think those two websites are good quality websites.

Describe your topic in a much detail as possible, if you want to know history of Sorell, Tasmania search for all three words as if you only searched for example “Sorell” you would get other places called Sorell and information that has nothing to do with the history of Sorell.

Think of all the different ways to name what you are after. For example a car is also an automobile, vehicle etc. Remember not everyone calls the same thing the same name.

Be aware of your spelling. If you spell something wrongly you may get information on that topic, but as the author has also spelt it wrongly it is likely that you have not found quality information.

Use parenthesis around exact terms you want. For example “I want exactly this phrase” will only find result where those words are used together in that exact way. This is especially useful when you know a line from a poem, song, story etc. and want to find the rest of it!

Using the word ‘and’ or a + sign between two words will only produce results where the search engine finds BOTH words on the site.

Using OR between terms lets the search engine know you want sites with EITHER word. For example searching for car or vehicle, will produce a list of sites that name a car either way.
Typing Site:au at the end of your search will result in you only finding Australian sites.

Don’t forget that you can always click on advanced search where you are given lots of ways to narrow down your search.

Task 1:

Go to http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge for some practice at refining your internet search skills.

Content:

Research OH & S, and answer the following questions:

Page 1: What is Occupational Health and Safety?Page 2: What is ergonomics?”

Page 3: How does OH & S relate to Ergonomics?

Page 4: How will an understanding of OH & S and ergonomics help us at school, and in the workplace?

You are then required to research 4 key ergonomic guidelines that people should follow when using computers:

Page 5: Ergonomic tip #1

Page 6: Ergonomic tip #2

Page 7: Ergonomic tip #3

Page 8: Ergonomic tip #4

Page 9: References

Suggestions:

For an explanation of what OH & S is, refer to the PDF document “Health and Safety”. Look for ”The Occupational Health and Safety Act 1983”.

When selecting which tips to include for ergonomics, think about which are the most relevant to you.

This is a multimedia product, so you can incorporate much more than just text, such as images, sound, animation…

Submission:

You should create a journal that should include justifications of the tips you have included, any issues that you have faced with the creation of the information product, and explanations of good / bad sites discovered when looking for information. Do your journal as a series of blog entries.

Email your full assignment to your teacher. Add anything that you think is important to share about OH&S onto your blog.