Edexcel GCSE ICT Unit 1 Living in a Digital WorldChapter 6: Let’s revise!

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Smart working

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Creating a safe workspace
Computer-related health problems:
  • back pain
  • eye strain
  • repetitive strain injury (RSI)
  • stress

Ways of preventing computer-related health problems
Ergonomics
Other safety considerations
Working out the problem from the physical symptoms given
Any time, anywhere
Mobile broadband
Dongle
Dongle security
Advantages and disadvantages of mobile broadband
3G coverage
Privacy issues
Collaborative working
Technology that allows collaborative working
Advantages of collaborative working
Different ways of working collaboratively:
  • video conferencing
  • VoIP
  • online workspaces
  • wikis and online forums

Multitasking
Working remotely
Creating a secure password
Good password practice
Access rights
Teleworking
Software choices
Advantages and disadvantages of online software applications, e.g. Google Docs
Understand how commercial software producers can respond to the challenge of software as a service
Software licences
General purpose software versus specialist software
Buying and upgrading software:
  • locally installed software
  • leasing the software
  • software as a service (SaaS)

Advantages and disadvantages of each of the types of software
Copyright law regarding software
Open source software
Storing and backing up data
What is data?
Primary storage
Secondary storage:
  • USB pen/flash drives
  • CD
  • Flash memory card
  • DVD
  • Hard disk drive

Advantages and disadvantages of online data storage
Choosing suitable data storage media
Importance of backing up data
Disaster recovery
RAID
Data Protection Act 1998
Communicating with customers
Digital methods of communicating with customers
Why communicate with customers?
Advantages and disadvantages to the customer and the business of using email to communicate with customers
Advantages and disadvantages to the customer and the business of using instant messaging (IM) to communicate with customers
Blogs
Advantages and disadvantages of video conferencing
Advantages and disadvantages of VoIP
Running a business online
Benefits to businesses of selling and advertising online
Benefits of the Internet to industry and individual businesses
Importance of good website design
Advantages of Internet advertising
Advertising using a search engine
Keywords
Content networks
Viral marketing

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