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This task was recieved 60% out of a possible 100% REMEMBER TO USE IMAGES TO SUPPORT YOUR REPORT AND FOLLOW THE TASK REQUIREMENTS AND THE MARKING GUIDE __ Assessment Task __ __ No. 4! __ Aspects of Life at Henry Kendall High School Report!!

By Tahlia McDermott

Introduction: We were given the task to create either a PowerPoint Slide show or a series of web pages to display information that we got around the school about the Aspects of Henry Kendall High School. We were given the choice to do the assessment on the school as a whole or concentrate on a particular aspect of the school. My group, Mark Webber, Dale Ball and myself, decided to do a PowerPoint Display on the Aspect of Music at Henry Kendall High School. We chose to do this because it would be easier for us to display our information in a PowerPoint and because we all studied Music as a subject at some stage. Collecting: Collecting is the process that defines the required data, identifies the source for the data, determines how the data will be gathered and gathers the data.

We collected data on the music faculty and resources at Henry Kendall High School. We located the data from teachers such as · Mr Partridge, Mrs Partridge and Ms Lambert. · Students who study music as a subject such as Mark Webber and Dale Ball. · The internet using Google images, to collect images of instruments · Knowledge gained from four and a half years of being a student at Henry Kendall High School. We collected it by asking teachers and students questions, taking pictures around the school and from our own general knowledge.

The hardware used for collection included digital cameras (the schools digital camera; name of camera) for photos of teachers, students and around the school. Also a keyboard was used to type information from paper onto the computer and into our MS PowerPoint Display.

Software used for the collection of data was Internet Explorer to browse the internet for pictures of instruments and background pictures for the assignment. Microsoft PowerPoint presentation was used to display the data collected as information.


 * ‘Sample of Backgrounds for PowerPoint’ **

The non – computer procedures that took place were; interviewing the music staff, such as Mr Partridge and Mrs Partridge. We formed a story board to show the design of the layout of each slide of the PowerPoint Display. We made a Gant chart to record the events of data collection and assessment completion.

Social and Ethical Issues in collecting our data were; accuracy of the collected data. This was an issue because most of the information was of general knowledge from the people from our group doing music as a subject. We didn’t have an issue with bias as the topic that we chose to do for our assessment, (Music) required us to get most or all of our information from only people related to the music subject. In our assessment we acknowledge the source of our data by naming the individuals that we got our information from. Also we acknowledge Google as our main source of images. We didn’t really suffer any ergonomic issues as we didn’t really work on the computer for much longer than an hour and a half at a time.

Organising: The process of organising is the arranging, representing and formatting of data for use by other information processes

The software used for organising our data: We used the paint and draw software such as Microsoft Photo Editor, Photo Enhancer 3.2 and Paint to crop pictures, to enhance the quality of some of the pictures taken and to add text to images, which we did through paint.

Non – computer tools for organising the data collected were a pen and paper to write out a story board for the display organising of our assessment. This kept our slides of our PowerPoint Organised and made sure we knew which information to collect for our assessment task.


 * ‘Using Nero Photo Finisher to edit picture’ **

Cropped picture

Transmitting and receiving: Transmitting and receiving is the process that transfers information/data within and between information systems. We accessed the internet to find pictures for our PowerPoint. The Schools network is connected to the World Wide Web by a router. The school has a 1GB link.


 * ‘Diagram to show connection between the school network and the Internet’ **


 * router **


 * ** Henry **** Kendall School **** Network ** ||
 * ** Router ** ||
 * **1 GB Link** ||


 * ** Education Department Computers ** ||
 * ** INTERNET ** ||

Social and ethical issues that we encountered were whether or not the pictures that we got on line had been copyrighted or not. I didn’t think to check for copyright on the pictures but it is acknowledged that we used Google images as our main source of pictures in our Bibliography.

Displaying: Displaying is the output from the information system to meet a purpose. The hardware used for displaying is a screen. The main screen used to display the PowerPoint is an ‘Optima screen CM 521TM’ (school computer). The software used for displaying is the slide show in our Point presentation. We used custom animation throughout our PowerPoint presentation. The types of custom animation we used were effects such as; fading, grow/shrinking, flying in, blinds, box, spin, diamond, pinwheel, checkerboard, swivel, thread and spiral in. We also used a random slide transition in our PowerPoint to make it look prettier. Social and ethical issues we faced were whether or not people with poorer eyesight would be able to see the size of font used, and or, the bright and dim colours used throughout our slideshow.

Storing and retrieving:

Storing and retrieving is the two step process that saves data/information and reloads it to allow for: - other processing to take place - a temporary halt in the system - backup and recovery - the transfer of data/information The hardware used in storing and retrieving is the Schools network storage system. The network system that I use is 61.5 MB (64,489,374 bytes), and is made up of 196 files and 21 folders. The Digital Camera that we used to take photos around the school stored the photos on a Floppy disk which we then transferred to the computer. Each picture took up approximately 38.5 KB (38,993 bytes) and we took about 13 photos. Storing and Retrieving Software that was used was: The hardware interface software. Windows XP is the schools hardware interface software and allows for network access.

The Social Ethical issues that were encountered were the storing of data being only partially protected by a password. Although the password protected against most people other than the user, the administrator and certain teachers could still access it.

The log in Process is Protected by a password so only the user and administrator can access the computer. Conclusion! When we were doing our PowerPoint Display we were involved in many of the processes in information processing. We found that many of the processes were linked together in some way through our assessment task.