It is easy for a consumer to research for the Government online services and find out necessary information about anything they wish to find out or solve.
When looking a the governments information services by using www.directgov.co.uk, i found that they had 500 searches covering a wide range of subjects from pest control to UK flights. It is very easy for a consumer to find out information and is veru useful.
While when researching for online reporting and advice the selection of links are considerably smaller at only 51, it still may be useful and is likely to answer most peoples questions and explain how to report something. It displays information about terroists attacks to squatters to fraud.
One again there is a vast range of links, which enable a consumer to book things such as driving tests. Once again this is very useful, sometimes it is easier and you have a wider range of things that you are able to book on other websites, however, they may be less reliable as directgov.
The website directs to 500 links to give consumers advice and help and information on how to cope with their payments or even how to pay them. This is very useful to a consumer and gives them reassurance that they will be able to cope with their payments with the recent credit crunch.
According to the cabinet office report in 2004, the Government hopes to have saved £1.3 million within 3 years by migrating its services online and to have saved consumers £1 thousand million. How is this possible?
I do not think this is possible and seems a very unrealistic judgement to make, I do not see how they are saving cosumers £1 thousand million.
Monday, 29 September 2008
Friday, 26 September 2008
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Education
One type of online learning is the www.bbc.co.uk/learning
This offers students the chance to complete many activites and tutorials. It has information on many subjects and ranges from KS2 up to A-level, so there for is suitable for all. It is also a very reliable source of learning. It had fun games as another way of learning and also short film clips for certain subjects. It suitable for everyone to use and is a good way of revising and practising work and there is plenty to learn.
There are also websites that shows you step by step ways of completing your work on the computer, such as ,www.macromedia.com. This is very useful and enables students to work indepently and also complete work at home. As, sometimes when a person explains how to use Dreamweaver it is not easy to understand and websites such as the Macromedia website explains how to do things step by step. It is a great source of learning for students, although it is difficult to fins these in many subjects.
There are also 'Learning objects' that many companies market to the educational market. These are very useful for teachers as well as students and is an easy way of demonstrating something clearly to the whole class. It is also a different and interesting way to learn that students can use at home or during school/college. Once again, you are limited to which topics you can find them on, however, they are still good sources of learning and can be a great way of improving a students skills on the computer, which can help them most subjects.
There is also 'simulations', such as www.netfrog.com. The website Netfrog allows students to look at a series of images showing the close dissection of a frog. This is very useful for students studying biology or animal rights. It is also very fascinating and it is possible to fins simulations on many different topics. However, it is not as beenficial as carrying out a dissection or watching it in real life, althought some people have issues with such things and therefore would prefer to watch it on the internet. I do not think it si the best way of learning, however, it can be used as a back-up to reienforce information already learnt, as it is a different way of learning.
This offers students the chance to complete many activites and tutorials. It has information on many subjects and ranges from KS2 up to A-level, so there for is suitable for all. It is also a very reliable source of learning. It had fun games as another way of learning and also short film clips for certain subjects. It suitable for everyone to use and is a good way of revising and practising work and there is plenty to learn.
There are also websites that shows you step by step ways of completing your work on the computer, such as ,www.macromedia.com. This is very useful and enables students to work indepently and also complete work at home. As, sometimes when a person explains how to use Dreamweaver it is not easy to understand and websites such as the Macromedia website explains how to do things step by step. It is a great source of learning for students, although it is difficult to fins these in many subjects.
There are also 'Learning objects' that many companies market to the educational market. These are very useful for teachers as well as students and is an easy way of demonstrating something clearly to the whole class. It is also a different and interesting way to learn that students can use at home or during school/college. Once again, you are limited to which topics you can find them on, however, they are still good sources of learning and can be a great way of improving a students skills on the computer, which can help them most subjects.
There is also 'simulations', such as www.netfrog.com. The website Netfrog allows students to look at a series of images showing the close dissection of a frog. This is very useful for students studying biology or animal rights. It is also very fascinating and it is possible to fins simulations on many different topics. However, it is not as beenficial as carrying out a dissection or watching it in real life, althought some people have issues with such things and therefore would prefer to watch it on the internet. I do not think it si the best way of learning, however, it can be used as a back-up to reienforce information already learnt, as it is a different way of learning.
Education-Use a Learning Object
Simple demonstrations, such as, a viewlet that displays "using the toolbar and format menu”. These types of flash and quicktime movies are marketed by a number of companies to the educational market as 'learning objects'. These are another way in which students can learn, making learning more unique and interesting. Also, it is an easier way of teaching the whole class all together about such things. I think it is a good and valuable way of learning and is very beneficial to students and teachers.
A good website to view this movies on is www.lynda.com
A good website to view this movies on is www.lynda.com
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Internet Weather Predictions
Once again the weather has been just as predicted. Now reflecting back on the weather of the last 5 days, it has proved that the internet weather predictions are very accurate, although, we did have some rain on monday night and the internet weather predictions did not predcit that, apart from that the weather predictions have been very reliable and I would use them again.
Monday, 22 September 2008
Education- Macromedia Presentations
http://www.macromedia.com/
Your are able to visit the website above and have a lesson in using macromedia software, it is very good and shows you clearly how to use the programs. It is a very good idea, especially for students, who can do more independent working and look it up how to work the programs and therefore learn for themselves how to do their work.
However, it has its disadvantages, the lessons only show you one way to do things and there is normal several others, if you still dont understand when you get someone to explain it to you sometimes it can make things more confusing. The presentation may be too long and may go into detail that is not necessary for you to know in order to do your work. Also, it does not always work efficently and depending on the speed of your internet or what sort of compuet you are on or any faults with the macromedia website sometimes you are unable to view the presentation and this can be quite fustrating.
Your are able to visit the website above and have a lesson in using macromedia software, it is very good and shows you clearly how to use the programs. It is a very good idea, especially for students, who can do more independent working and look it up how to work the programs and therefore learn for themselves how to do their work.
However, it has its disadvantages, the lessons only show you one way to do things and there is normal several others, if you still dont understand when you get someone to explain it to you sometimes it can make things more confusing. The presentation may be too long and may go into detail that is not necessary for you to know in order to do your work. Also, it does not always work efficently and depending on the speed of your internet or what sort of compuet you are on or any faults with the macromedia website sometimes you are unable to view the presentation and this can be quite fustrating.
Education- Netfrog
http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog1/
I do not think that the website above is very good and it certainly doesnt make the dissection of a frog interesting.
However, it is a good idea to be able to look at how to dissect a frog before doing so, in order to make sure you are doing it and therefore able to see all the necessary things in the frog.
Also, if things like dissecting a frog make people ill there are able to look at what you see when dissecting frog instead of actually doing so, also you then dont have to kill frog.
However, the pictures on the website arent exactly great and as beneficial as you would like them to be but would help you in some way.
I do not think that the website above is very good and it certainly doesnt make the dissection of a frog interesting.
However, it is a good idea to be able to look at how to dissect a frog before doing so, in order to make sure you are doing it and therefore able to see all the necessary things in the frog.
Also, if things like dissecting a frog make people ill there are able to look at what you see when dissecting frog instead of actually doing so, also you then dont have to kill frog.
However, the pictures on the website arent exactly great and as beneficial as you would like them to be but would help you in some way.
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