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Unit D1

Verbal Communication - Throughout this unit i have used verbal communication with my peers to give advice on how to complete a task or to ask for guidance myself in order to effectively complete a task. I regularly communicate with  my teacher for information on how to complete a task correctly. The advantages of verbal communication include that body language can be interpreted and both people can check understanding with each other to reassure that the correct information is being passed on. The disadvantages are that it can distract a person from the work that they are doing, and also there is no record of the conversation.

Teacher broadcasting demonstration - This technique has been used frequently throughout the year, my teacher would stand up in front of the class and tell everybody exactly what to do and how to do it so that we do not acquire any extra guidance in order to complete the task. This is effective because it means that every student is focused at the same time so that the teacher doesn't have to speak to every individual student once at a time, which is time consuming. The disadvantages of this technique is that some students may be absent of not paying attention meaning that the teacher has to use their own time to go over the tasks with individual students.

Using blogger - I have used blogger to publish my work to be marked by my teacher throughout all of this year, this is an efficient way of publishing work because it allows you to add your teachers as authors so that they can go onto your work and mark it on their own computer. Using blogger is a quick an easy way for my teachers to mark my work when i have completed. The disadvantages of using blogger is that other people can view your work that you publish and copy the work, so when the teacher marks a students work on blogger it could be copied from another student.

Using G mail - I have used G mail all year round for various reasons e.g. to ask teachers for advice or guidance on work, and also to use Google drive to complete work. Using google drive allows me to complete my work at home in my spare time so that i have more time in school to do other work. The only slight disadvantage is that you have to trust google with your work so that it is always going to be saved, because work automatically saves itself into google’s cloud.

Publishing images - I have published images to show the work that i have completed on google calendar, Photoshop etc for when the file cannot be directly uploaded to blogger to be marked. This is useful because it is quick and easy and is done just by the click of a button on a keyboard, anybody can do it. The disadvantage is that when expanding the photo to a bigger size it can become slightly distorted with small text.

Using PowerPoint - I have used PowerPoint in order to create slides to show effective communication techniques and barriers to effective communication. I have also used it to create a dummies guide on how to create charts and graphs. The advantages of this are that they are very easy to create and can also be saved as a JPEG and uploaded to blogger to be marked by the teacher. The disadvantage of using power point is that the amount of space on each slide is limited.

Using google calendar - I have used google calendar in order to allocate myself times and dates in which i will train my computer skills on areas that I have less ability in than others. As part of task 3 i was required to use google calender and i have done so successfully. The advantages of google calendar are that it is easy to use and dates can be highlighted to make it easily recognisable as to when you should be doing something on a certain date. The disadvantage is that it can only be accessed on the internet, so if the internet was experiencing technical difficulties you would not be able to access google calendar.