1. File Sharing in today’s Education Sector ICT Assignment 1 Blog & Presentation By Laura Pagano & Bradley Kemp http://bradlaura.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/file-sharing/

5. Limewire - P2P file sharing program connects to the Gnutella P2P network. Limewire client software is widely recognized for its clean user interface that does not contain adware

6. Kazaa - One of the most popular P2P file sharing programs of all time. However due to increased adware and 'fake files' its popularity is decreasing rapidily.

7. Ares - Offers music and other file sharing and include a built-in chat service aswell as no adware and fast connection times.

8. BitTorrent - P2P software application that allowes user to download mostly movies and television programs.

10. Some of the images had extremely large file sizes. These took a long time to download, used significant bandwidth and sometimes put such a load on the server that users would be disconnected before their downloads were complete.

11. To solve the problem, NASA took advantage of the popular P2P technology, BitTorrent, which distributes their larger files into small pieces via other users who have also made copies of the files available.

12. This reduced the strain on NASA’s image servers and made for a more reliable user experience. (Case Western Reserve University 2005)Case Western Reserve University (2005), Case Peer to Peer Filesharing Advisories, viewed 30 March 2010, http://www.case.edu/its/security/docs/aware/file_sharing.html Example

14. Teachers use their computers/laptops for emails, student marks, setting tasks (diary, calendar system), sending out homework, roll call and collaborating with other teachers as well as meetings and conferences.

15. Most schools provide their students with an individual school email to communicate with peers and teachers. Students share their files with peers.

16. Exterior communication is used with parents for interviews, newsletters and feedback.

18. As well as this, communicating hyper-links to exterior web pages for relevant information is also a useful tool.

19. Most importantly, is the ability to attach files to emails which can help moving around soft copies of information rather than sending out hard copy papers from class to class.

20. E-mail proves to be an efficient file sharing mean which is commonly utilised within the field of education and teaching.Emails

22. There first most function is providing a shared mean of file access and storage.

23. File servers are utilised in many different manners within an education environment.

25. A common way it is being operated amongst many school systems at the moment is by indexing a database of student files. This way these student files are accessible to staff at any given time, when needed from a networked device (Laptop, Computer, Handheld smart phone etc).

26. This is a more suitable solution in comparison to the old file cabinet system and sifting through papers.

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