Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Online Services
- Communication
- Types
- Email,
messaging, news
groups, social
networks,
conferencing,
blogs, vlogs.
- Uses
- Talking to friends on
skype. Using social
networking applications
like Fcebook or Google+
to exchange
information
- Benefits
- Instant responses
to someone who is
remote from you,
at no additional
cost to your
broadband fees.
Socialising
- Real-time information
- Types
- Timetables, news,
sport updates,
weather reports,
travel news.
- Uses
- Checking an
airport website for
estimated arrival
times of flights
- Benefits
- Provides up-to-date
information when picking
people up from an airport.
Companies can use real-time
information about customers’
reactions to an advertisement
to improve the effectiveness of
the advert.
- Commerce
- Types
- Banking,
auctions, online
sales and
purchases,
publishing
- Uses
- Selling
something
through a service
such as ebay™ or
Amazon ®
- Benefits
- Allows users to carry
out transactions
seamlessly (without the
need to use physical
money) and globally.
- Government
- Types
- Tax returns,
e-voting,
applications
for grants or
benefits
- Uses
- Applying for
your first
provisional
driving licence
- Benefits
- Saves time and is
more convenient –
saves you a visit to
the Post Office and
means can take
your time filling in
the form and can
easily amend any
errors.
- Education
- Types
- Online learning,
online training,
manufacturers’
online tutorials
- Uses
- Using the
Microsoft ®
training
package for
Windows ® 7
- Benefits
- Allows you to do
training from
the comfort of
your own
computer and at
your own pace.
- VLE
- Types
- VLEs such
as Moodle
- Uses
- Your school or
college may use a
VLE for you to
access lecture
notes and
assignments, and
for you to submit
assignment work
- Benefits
- Cost effective for
the school/college
and allows the
school/college to
track the submission
of learners’ work.