This book covers the three units of the GCSE in Applied ICT which can be taken as a two-year course from September 2002 or a one-year course from September 2003. It will be an invaluable text for students studying this course for assessment by any of the examination boards. The Assessment grid for Edexcel has been included in the book Unit 1 is a very practical unit and the student is shown how to use various applications including a web browser, word processing, database, spreadsheet and multimedia presentation software. Unit 2 covers the ways in which ICT is used in different types of organisation. It includes numerous discussion points and ideas for students to research. It takes the student through the various stages of designing and implementing an ICT system. Unit 3 explores how individuals, families, clubs, people at work and community groups use ICT. Up-to-date case studies are used as the basis for discussion and exercises, with suggestions and guidance for work.

 

This book is part of a book series called Gcse .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 296 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pearson Education Limited .

Pat Heathcote has worked as a programmer and systems analyst, and has many years of experience in teaching Computing and Information Technology. She has served as an Assistant Examiner with AQA, is on the Subject Committee for Computing and is Chair of Examiners for Edexcel AVCE and GNVQ. She is now a full-time author and publisher.

This book has the following chapters: UNIT 1 - ICT TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 1 - The World Wide Web Chapter 2 - Browsing Chapter 3 - E-mail Chapter 4 - Business Documents Chapter 5 - Incorporating graphics Chapter 6 - Invoices and Business Cards Chapter 7 - Relational databases Chapter 8 - Creating database tables Chapter 9 - Data Entry Chapter 10 - Searching and Sorting Chapter 11 - Reports Chapter 12 - Mail merge Chapter 13 - Introduction to Spreadsheets Chapter 14 - Functions and Charts Chapter 15 - A PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 16 - Designing navigation routes Chapter 17 - Standard Ways of Working UNIT 2 - ICT IN ORGANISATIONS Chapter 18 - Organisations Chapter 19 - ICT for Communications Chapter 20 - ICT in Sales and Purchasing Chapter 21 - ICT in Finance Chapter 22 - ICT in Production Chapter 23 - ICT in Marketing Chapter 24 - The CPU Chapter 25 - Input Devices Chapter 26 - Output devices Chapter 27 - Storage Devices Chapter 28 - Ports and Connections Chapter 29 - System Design and Implementation Chapter 30 - Portfolio work UNIT 3 - ICT IN SOCIETY Chapter 31 - Internet Technologies Chapter 32 - Mobile Technologies Chapter 33 - Entertainment and Leisure Chapter 34 - People with Special Needs Chapter 35 - ICT in Business Chapter 36 - Education and Lifelong Learning Chapter 37 - Working Styles and Opportunities Chapter 38 - ICT Legislation Chapter 39 - The Downside of ICT Chapter 40 - ICT in the Community