ICT EVALUATION

There were many benefits using ICT for this project. I was able to use ICT effectively and to my best ability.

Firstly, I used ICT to publish my website. Without ICT, that would have been very difficult. I used the software Microsoft FrontPage to create the web pages I needed to publish online. Firstly, I created a template, then I added the necessary information and then uploaded it. You can see below what it looked like as I was filling the information in.

I did the same to all the pages then finally I uploaded them. I used some HTML codes and Java Script from the Tripod website itself. For example,

<p>

<script>var animation_p1="Chirag Shah";</script><script language="JavaScript" src="http://svcs.tripod.lycos.com/svcs/anim_cursor_trailer_text.js"></script>

</p>

<p>

The code above adds the animation to the cursor. The part I have highlighted shows what the animation would say. Without ICT, this would have been impossible again.

I used the internet, part of ICT, for research and for images. ICT has benefited me in many ways, I would have had to make a booklet by hand instead of a website if there wasn’t any ICT, I would have had to hand draw the images and many other things. ICT really made it easy for me to achieve a complete website. I could use Erupt3 too! This is a volcanic eruption simulator. This helped illustrate what actually happened in the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. FIG 12.1: I was able to use Google Earth to generate images of the Anak Krakatoa. For example, I was able to capture the image below after looking for the Volcano. This is not of Krakatoa, but Anak Krakatoa.

FIG 12.1:

As you can see from the picture, I was facing south. I clicked ‘File’, then ‘Save Image As…’. Then, I named the file and could use the pictures in my website.

Another positive point of using ICT is that you can save your work onto a USB memory stick or on your hard drive. Saving it on a memory stick allows you to take your work to another computer. When using pen and paper, this can be difficult as you may have numbers of pages, as I did with this project. As you save your work, the systems automatically sorts the files into an order of your choice which can be changed by clicking the right button on the mouse and then arrange icons by… then how ever you want. With paper, it is easy to lose parts of it and misplace it.

When using ICT, there is a vary of font sizes and styles to choose from.

On pen and paper, you have your handwriting style and maybe another style. Your pen could also run out of ink. The computer cannot. Only the printer can, which I didn’t need for this project.

There were also many negative sides to using ICT. Sometimes, the internet connection was not working and I could not upload my files or do some research. At one point, my computer encountered a ‘Serious Error’ and restarted. I lost all my work which I hadn’t saved. Luckily, it was only a few paragraphs which I made up again in half an hour. When working with pen and paper, you do not encounter such errors and problems. If you do, then it is probably that you have misplaced your work or accidentally ripped it up or thrown it in the bin (not that it happens to me!). Though if you are working with pen and paper, and you make a mistake, you have to start over. With ICT, you just press Control and Z. This function allows you to undo the last action. The only time you have to start your work again on a computer is when you lose your work because you haven’t saved it or you accidentally delete it (as I did one time in this project).

On the internet, you sometimes get websites that don’t give the true facts, they are somewhat different. This can ruin the whole investigation, although books generally give the right facts.

The Navigation was also a nuisance as I would have to add hyperlinks and then again to the bottom of my pages, I added navigational links to advance forwards or to go back or to go to the home page.

I was not able to get any photos of ‘Proto Krakatoa’ as there was no actual photographic evidence on the web. There weren’t any videos of the 1883 eruption either

ICT made it easier for me to create, work on and publish my web pages to the internet. I was able to add a video to the introduction. This was very good as Simon Winchester, the man who wrote a book called Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded, gave an insight into Krakatoa. His book was one of the sources I used.

I enjoyed this project thoroughly and spent a lot of time working on it. I feel I learnt new skills on how to create a series of web pages easily and without doing it a long and harder way. I hope you enjoyed reading through this website as much as I enjoyed making it.

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