What I have learned about Technologies and Communication
What are the Technologies?
MicroSoft 365
Microsoft Teams
Ms OneDrive
Ms OutLook
Ms PowerPoint
Ms Word
Ms Excel
Accessibility Software
In large fonts ( visual impaired)
Voice commands ( hearing impaired)
Accessibility Technology
Read and Write
Immersive Reading
Professional Networks
Other Social Media Platforms: Instagram,Facebook,Marketing tools, Zoom,Skype, Facetime
Learning Envoirnment
VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)
Dropbox
Discussion Board
Checklist
Content
Discussion Board
Google Clasroom
Plagiarism and Citation
How to email
Bcc and Cc
3 paragraphs
In text-citation
G suite applcations
Google doc
Google slides
Google drive
Google drawing
Google meet
Google sheets
Hangouts
Other technologies that should be considerd?
Mobile applications such as: Apps,Websites,Social Media Platforms etc.
Devices such as: Smartphones,Laptops,tablets,smart watch (apple watch),fitbit,chromebooks. These are all great devices to have when it comes educational and employment purposes.
How would it affect employment?
Since now Covid has come to place, A lot of people are working from home. These tools and technologies can help you work virtually such as connecting with people online. Ms Teams are a great method to communicate and connect virtually with your co-workers. Another interesting thing I learned is if you missed something you can go back and read the important things you have missed! Which is very helpful. Other technologies to be considered: Linkedin,twitter, facebook,instagram etc
ICT:
Read and Write is a great tool because it can improve your pronunciation and comprehension towards your reading. You can select the the voice selector to help you guide you through. Read and Write can help make you more independent in the future. Immersive reader is a very beneficial tool. For instance if you have trouble or if you are stuck,you can make the font size bigger and highlight it in a different colour, you can break the word down into syllables to have a better understanding of the sentence or word. You can use the tool "Line Focus" it makes a line for the whole sentence on which you are focused on and can help you see the sentence better,you can use picture dictionary to have a better understanding of the image of the word you are focusing on, you can have the voice selector help you! There are so many fascinating and helpful tools that will help you improve and get better in your reading skills. It's important to have these tools to help you and to guide you through when you are stuck and are having struggles.Tools are there to make reading more understandable for you. It helps with visual thinking, such as having big fonts and understanding the text better with images, as well as hearing. Helps you by having a voice selector and understanding the word step by step ( Accessibility Software).
If you want to start a business of some sort, for instance selling some items you have made you can use marketing tools. Marketing is a great and efficient way to promote your business by promoting services or products.
It can organize all your documents and ideas for emails,presentations,important dates,notes etc. That can include the tools such as One Word, Ms Powerpoint and One Note
What's the purpose? How is it used?
Organizing your ideas and information (OneNote)
Helps improve your writing and reading! (Immersive reading, Read and Write)
Helps you stay on task to be more productive and to use your time wisely when it comes to tasks and your work ethic. Example: Ms One Word can help you organize your work ethic and be more productive as well as Ms powerpoint, by arranging your ideas into these tools. Ms outlook can help you stay on task to keep everything in one place and to know important occasions/events up to date.
Has features such as fonts,bacground colour,images,different languages,size etc.
You can use these technologies anywhere! For instance for a business, for your education and for your employment.
It can help you with your learning and educational atmosphere and explore new tools in the environment ( Vle, Brightspace and google classroom)
You can play with these technologies! Sometimes we are so used to using the same tools and technologies. These technologies can help you find and explore new tools and new ways to do and organize your work ethic.
It can help you have a better visual representation and a better hearing representation (Accessibility software).