1. GCE Applied ICT
Unit 1 : The Information Age
Life in the Information Age
Taken from Edexcel Activebook for AS ICT
Activity 3 –When do you use email?
Evaluate your personal, social and work (school) uses of email:
 For what purposes do you use email?
 How and where do you use email?
 What are the major benefits for you in using email?
 What problems or disadvantages do you have in using email?
 When does email make you more productive and when less productive?
 Does email fulfil its intended purposes?
This site about email may be useful in your thinking:
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/email/000mail.htm
Activity 4 – When do you use mobile phones?
Evaluate your personal, social and work (school) related uses of mobile phones:
 For what purposes do you use your mobile phone?
 How and where do you use your mobile phone?
 What are the major benefits for you in using your mobile phone?
 What problems or disadvantages do you have in using your mobile phone?
 Does your mobile phone fulfil its intended purposes?
Activity 5 – Evaluate your communications
Evaluate your personal, social and work (school) related uses of the following communications:
 Blogs
 Chat and instant messaging
 Short message service (SMS) – aka text messages!
Activity 6 – Business communications
Research the best practice in modern business communications and create a short
presentation on the topic covering the main uses, benefits and drawbacks.