Svend+Winther's+unit+3

What environment am I part of? (How have IT students needs changed?)  By : svend winther   INVESTIGATION   Identify the Problem  not a lot of people in the modern world know how IT students needs have changed through out time. Explain the Problem During the last couple of years technology has taken some big leaps in storage devices, digital technology and a lot more making everything a lot more advanced. We now have touchscreen and microchips with larger storage capacity than ever instead of floppy discs and giant computers. We also have the liberty of the internet now and that makes a big difference to everything. We all have new needs now but not a lot of people are aware of that. I feel that we should try and spread awareness of this in some way. I will also be talking about how students now use different storage devices, something about online storage, how mouses have changed, how keyboards have and will change, and so much more but it will still all the related to the unit question. There are many different ways of doing that and i will have to figure out the most effective one. Research and Analysis i will not write so much about the things now since i am already making one website on them. __** Storage Devices: **__ A storage device is a device used in computers to store data. they are also called a storage or a storage medium. they are a kind of hardware which contain data. without a storage device in your computer it would be pretty much useless since you wouldn't be able to save anything. there are two types of memory: primary and secondary. the primary memory is volatile and the secondary memory is non volatile. now we students use online storage and and small usb sticks but wealso save stuff on the computer

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/stordevi.htm

http://www.dineshbakshi.com/igcse-gcse-ict/storage-devices-and-media

__**Online Storage**__ online storage is a storage medium where you can store data on the internet. then you can access it and download it from any other computer. it is quite smart because then you dont have to carry around USB disks or another external device. you can also use it to share things with other people. http://www.ehow.com/about_5150376_definition-online-storage.html

__** Mice **__  when they just came out they were very big and hard to steer but now everyone uses them and they are quite small. you needed two hands to use it. Apple inc. used it when it came out in 1984. today they even have special gaming mouses with multiple buttons on. __** Keyboards **__  since the keyboards came out they have changed a lot. they have a lot more buttons and a lot more function. they will probably also be touchscreen in the future. __** Output Devices **__ output devices have changed a lot. they have gotten a lot smaller and a lot more handier. you can read about output devices in the file under.

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[[file:Exercise 2 unit 3 starter svend winther.docx]]
My last site will be on how the internet has made a big difference in The IT world. basically just a bit about the internet.

Design Brief
I am going to make a website on how IT students needs have changed using Microsoft expression. i am going to show how they have changed by making a page on each of the things that you can see in product specification. I am going to design a website that will answer the unit question.

Product Specification Test Plan Have i done a page for each of the topics i was meant to do? Does the 5 pages that i made relate to the unit question? Are the pages about the topic they are supposed to be about? Is my free choice page appropriate to the unit? Does my website look professional? Does my website look appealing?
 * Design Specifications **
 * 1) Design a 5 page website.
 * 2) 1 page must be about how students today are using different types of storage devices
 * 3) 1 page must be about online storage
 * 4) 1 page must be about how mouses have changed
 * 5) 1 page must be about how keyboards have and will change
 * 6) 1 page must be about how output devices have changed
 * 7) 1 page can be on whatever you want but it must related to the unit question
 * 8) Show how the web page will look. change around the navigational bar, the location of your picture, add more pictures to each page, move the information around to show different designs. Remember two designs are better than one. Three designs are better than two. Make sure you think about navigation and the content of each page in your design. For content a heading will be enough. Remember to look at the design criteria in order to get maximum marks.

Is the navigation and the content of my pages on my design in the right place? Have i done the best possible to get a high mark on the product? Is my font to big? is my font to small? can you read the writing? is the color contrast good? are there any major spelling mistakes? i will spell check this are my web pages labeled? do i have enough pictures? are the pictures the right size? is the background confusing? are the pictures necessary? is the enough color contrast between the writing color and the background color? do all my hyperlinks work? do they all go to the right page? are there too many hyperlinks? are there any major grammar mistakes? i will spell check this do i have unnecessary information on the pages? have i researched all my topics probably? i will che ck the design specifications again to see if it is right __**I will get a Friend to answer all the yes/no questions.**__ DESIGN  Pictures of my designs Place your designs here

Analysis of my designs __** Design 1 **__ **__ Design 2 __** __** Design 3 **__ **my third design is probably the most creative of all my designs. I presented all the information as a timeline so you can see how much technology actually has changed. I also have a column in the left hand side of the page which allows me to go to any of the pages. i have lots of pictures on this one to and it totally follows my design and product specification. I really like the idea of a timeline. I tried to change around the navigational bar to see which place was best on the page and i also tried to add as many pictures as possible. i have more than five pages in my design and they are all about the topic.** ** Overall i think this is the best design and I think it is going to work. ** Justification for chosen design __**DESIGN 3**__
 * My first design is a very basic design with a homepage and six other webpages. It has a brief introduction on the homepage which tells you about the site. The background for all the pages are related to the topic on the page, so the internet page will have a picture related to the internet as a background. My font colour will be a dark colour depending on what colour the background is but i will make sure that you can read it. The starting page will have a simple background of a light colour which i have not fully decided on yet. Each page is has its own structure which can be an advantage or a dis-advantage.**** It will keep the reader interested but it might also confuse the reader. **** There is only one major mistake: there is no button on the pages that that you can click on to go back. It might make it harder to read the text and i admit that it probably isn't the best design ever. It does more or less follow the design brief and the design specification. The only thing it doesn't follow is the creativity part. To be honest i think it is a very boring design and even though i think it would be an okay website it is not my favorite design. **
 * My second design also start on the homepage where the title is in the middle of the page. Then i have smaller titles out on the sides - almost like a mind-map - which will lead to another page. There is also a small introduction on the homepage which tells you about the website. All my information webpages have been set up as a kind of comparison which it more about in my design explains in my. it is all structures the same way and i have a dark technology background. My font colour will be white so you can see it and i will try to make sure that the reader can read everything. i have more than five page and they are all on topic and though i don't have a navigational bar i think it is a good design. I also have a lot of pictures and icons, so** ** I basically **** follow the design/product specification fully and i think this is a very successful design. **
 * I chose design 3 because it is the most creative and the coolest. I don't think anyone else has come up with a design like that and i think that it will work out very well. I also chose it because it has the options column which is a very useful feature. I also chose it because I think it will be the most interesting for the audience/reader. Another reason that I chose this design is that this design has a lot more pictures and I really like websites with lots of pictures. Overall it is just a good design and that is why I chose it. **

PLAN . . . . . || i did this and i am on track. || . . . . || almost finished doing it at homw as soon as i get the progam ||
 * ~ Date ||~ What you need to (Deadlines/titles) ||~ Resources/Materials ||~ Work ||~ Comments ||
 * Tuesday the 26th of February || Finish all leftover research || * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * pen and paper
 * electricity || # log on to computer
 * 1) open up on Google chrome
 * 2) go to Google search
 * 3) search up each of the topics for a summary of them. you search by typing your search word into the search bar, such as "keyboards". Then you press enter and it will show you a lot of webpages. right click on a website title which you want and press "open in new tab".
 * 4) read the information on the page you opened.
 * 5) put the information into bullet points on a paper or into a word document.
 * 6) keep it open and do the same for all the other topics.
 * 7) you will end up with a brain full of information and ready to use
 * || Start and finish making the homepage || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || # ´since you are already logged on start by opening Microsoft expression.
 * 1) then log on to your wiki
 * 2) go to your page for this unit (this page)
 * 3) look at your design for the homepage
 * 4) start making it:
 * 5) to begin with create the table.
 * 6) since it is hard to say how many rows and columns you will need, start by making 2 columns and 3 rows
 * 7) Then fill in the options bar/tool bar
 * 8) don't put in the hyperlinks yet
 * 9) when you have done this check if it is a reasonable size and font which you have written it in
 * 10) if not, change it.
 * 11) now add the light colored back-ground image. which you could either have found on the internet or used the one which you might be able to find on Expression.
 * 12) find a technology picture on the internet:
 * 13) open a web browser (chrome)
 * 14) go to the url box with the mouse
 * 15) if there is anything in the box click it once and then press delete
 * 16) now search what you think would be a good picture for the webpage
 * 17) it will give you a lot of results as soon as you press enter
 * 18) right under the new search bar which popped up there is a bar that say: web. images, maps, etc. click on images
 * 19) find a good picture
 * 20) copy it
 * 21) go to the webpage which you are creating
 * 22) click paste where you want the picture to be
 * 23) now the picture is on the page
 * 24) make sure to get the picture's url and paste it next to it in a small font
 * 25) Write the title in big bold letters in the middle
 * 26) write the description/the purpose of this website in a paragraph underneath
 * 27) save the file with a professional name
 * 28) close it.
 * 29) log of computer turn
 * 30) turn of computer
 * 31) go home when the teacher tells you
 * Wednesday the 27th of February || Finish another page on the web site || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || (You will either have to do this at break time or you have to install it on a computer at home)


 * 1) turn of computer
 * 2) log on to your account
 * 3) open Microsoft expression web 4
 * 4) open your website
 * 5) click new page
 * 6) now you will have a new blank web page
 * 7) start making your output devices page:
 * 8) to start with, create a simple table
 * 9) about 3 columns and 7 rows
 * 10) use the top row to write in the tiltle of the page
 * 11) fill in the tool/task bar on the left
 * 12) make a straight line down the middle of the page
 * 13) make sure to start right under the title
 * 14) now make a line which will come of the side from it like it does on the design
 * 15) write the paragraph about what happened with output devices that particular day.
 * 16) place a smaller picture next to it which you will already know how to do since I explained it already
 * 17) if not read the plan again or ask a friend
 * 18) now do the same thing but you will place the line a bit further down and it will be on the right side
 * 19) if all goes well, you will place each one of them in a separate row
 * 20) Do that over and over again switching sides every time until you feel that you have enough points
 * 21) make sure to stop on the left side
 * 22) Write a little paragraph with a brief description about it at the bottom right side
 * 23) save
 * 24) close program
 * 25) log off

you should also have wiki spaces opened at all times on this page so you can see your designs || didn't get the progam for use at home. a bit behind || . . . . If you need more information on what exactly to write look at my design specification || got progam. still a bit behind ||
 * Thursday the 28th of February ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Friday the 1st of March || Finish at least 2 of the pages || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || # turn on computer
 * 1) log on
 * 2) open Microsoft expression web 4
 * 3) go to your project
 * 4) open Google chrome
 * 5) open wiki spaces and go to this page
 * 6) Make a new page on Expression
 * 7) do "the internet" webpage
 * 8) start by making a simple table. 3 columns 7 rows
 * 9) Type the title in the top row where you will only have one column (merge)
 * 10) draw a line down the middle under the title
 * 11) make a branch going of to the left side at the near top
 * 12) write a brief description with the date about what happened on that date
 * 13) get a picture of it from the internet
 * 14) do the same thing over and over again although you should alternate between doing it on the right side and on the left side
 * 15) fill in your task bar on your left
 * 16) save it
 * 17) make a new page
 * 18) do EXACTLY the same thing except that you are now doing it about keyboards
 * 19) save
 * 20) log off
 * 21) shut down
 * Saturday the 2nd of March ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Sunday the 3rd of March ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday the 4th of March || finish 2 webpages || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || you should be pretty good at this by now so i don't think it is needed for me to take you through all the tiny steps again. If you need any more guidance just look above on the page.

. . . . . || changed my plan. instead of doing the websites one at a time I set them all up so now i just have to put in the information. ||
 * 1) turn on
 * 2) log on
 * 3) open expression and go on your page
 * 4) open new page
 * 5) Do a page on the computer mouse
 * 6) ´follow the same process that we always use which is
 * 7) table
 * 8) title
 * 9) timeline line
 * 10) timeline points
 * 11) pictures
 * 12) task bar
 * 13) brief paragraph at the bottom
 * 14) save...
 * 15) now you open another page where you will write about storage devices
 * 16) i have chosen that all the pages should have the same design so basically just follow the process written above.
 * 17) if you need any additional information you should go to the internet and research for some time
 * 18) now save all the pages
 * 19) close program
 * 20) turn of computer
 * Tuesday the 5th of March || complete another page || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || # turn on computer
 * 1) log on
 * 2) open Expression
 * 3) open Google chrome
 * 4) open this page on wiki spaces
 * 5) keep it open so you have instructions
 * 6) open your project
 * 7) make a new page
 * 8) the topic should be online storage
 * 9) follow the process:
 * 10) table
 * 11) title
 * 12) timeline line
 * 13) timeline pictures
 * 14) task bar
 * 15) brief description
 * 16) TTTTTB
 * 17) save it
 * 18) close it
 * 19) close Google chrome
 * 20) log off
 * 21) shutdown

. . . . || complete ||
 * Wednesday the 6th of March || put the hyperlinks in all the pages || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || # turn on computer
 * 1) log on to your account
 * 2) open Microsoft expression web 4
 * 3) open this wiki spaces page
 * 4) go to your project on expression
 * 5) start by highlighting one of the titles in the task bar e.g. The internet
 * 6) do this on your home page
 * 7) now right click it
 * 8) at the bottom it says hyperlink
 * 9) click it
 * 10) now a box will pop up
 * 11) in the middle of the box it says "look in:"
 * 12) click the bar next to it on the right
 * 13) go to my computer in the box
 * 14) in the box underneath there will be some options
 * 15) click the one that starts with svend.winther
 * 16) that will take you to a new place where you have to click the folder at the top which is called website folder for svendwinther 7dlu
 * 17) now click on the internet page file which should be saved under that folder
 * 18) now that hyper link will take you to the internet page every time you click it
 * 19) do the same thing for all of the titles in the task bar making each one of the leading to their own page
 * 20) when you have done that for the homepage move on the the next page and do it all again
 * 21) do the same thing for every page
 * 22) save it
 * 23) close it
 * 24) and log off ||   ||
 * Thursday the 7th of March ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Friday the 8th of March || finish anything leftover || * microsoft expression web 4
 * computer (monitor, screen, mouse)
 * internet access
 * Electricity
 * general knowledge of how to use a computer || you basically just have to catch up with anything you didn't do here. try to improve anything if possible || Done and finished Everything ||

CREATE  Final Product  these are some print screens of my final product Put your final product here (refer to the instruction as to the form you need to place your product in. picture link or file) Changes made to the original Design In my original design my website looked a lot different than what it looks like now but I think my website looks better than what it was supposed to look like. First of all i changed the colour so there was different colors around the page. It didn't allow my to make a vertical line either and that is why the timeline is in squares. I also didn't put pictures for each paragraph because i found it unnecessary. Another change was that I put the title at the top of the page instead of add the bottom. Changes made to the original Plan  I Did not follow my plan completely although i did most of the time. I was on track until the first of march where we had no school and an unexpected event happened. Then on Monday the fourth I got 3 pages done which meant that i was only one page behind. On Tuesday i finished a page so i stayed one behind. Then on Wednesday i did another page. On Thursday i finished half a page because I came home at 5:30. On Friday we had a double lesson and i finished the which was putting in the hyperlinks and finishing the last half page. Then later that day i went home and took print screens and then i uploaded the word file. I think the main reason for this was that I didn't finish it on friday but it doesn't really matter because i still made the deadline. EVALUATE  Results of tests __ **I will get a Friend to answer all the yes/no questions.** __

__**Daniel's answers**__  Have i done a page for each of the topics i was meant to do? __**yes**__ Does the 5 pages that i made relate to the unit question? __**yes**__ Are the pages about the topic they are supposed to be about? __**yes**__ Is my free choice page appropriate to the unit? __**yes**__ Does my website look professional? __**The layout was professional but the colour was a bit too bright.**__ Does my website look appealing? __**Yes**__

Is the navigation and the content of my pages in the right place? __**Yes**__ Is my font to big? **__Nope not at all__**

is my font to small? __**N**____**o**__

can you read the writing? __**yes**__

is the color contrast good? __**It could have been better**__

are there any major spelling mistakes? __**no**__ i will spell check this are my web pages labeled? __**Yes**__

do i have enough pictures? __**Yes**__

are the pictures the right size? __**Yes they are the right size**__

is the background confusing? __**A bit disturbing whiles you read**__

are the pictures necessary? __**Yes all the pictures are necessary**__

is the enough color contrast between the writing color and the background color? __**yes there is**__

do all my hyperlinks work? __**Yes**__

do they all go to the right page? __**Yes**__

are there too many hyperlinks? __**No**__

are there any major grammar mistakes? __**There are some mistakes but none of them are major**__ i will spell check this

do i have unnecessary information on the pages? __**No**__

Have i done a page for each of the topics i was meant to do? __**Yes**__
 * __Kekeli's Answers:__**

Does the 5 pages that i made relate to the unit question? **Yes**

Are the pages about the topic they are supposed to be about? __**Yes**__

Is my free choice page appropriate to the unit? __**yes**__

Does my website look professional? __**Yes**__

Does my website look appealing? __**So, so**__

Is the navigation and the content of my pages on my design in the right place? __**Yes**__ Is my font to big? __**no**__

is my font to small? __**no**__

can you read the writing? __**yes**__

is the color contrast good? **__yes__**

are there any major spelling mistakes? **no**

are my web pages labeled? __**yes**__

do i have enough pictures? __**yes**__

are the pictures the right size? __**yes**__

is the background confusing? __**no**__

are the pictures necessary? __**yes**__

is the enough color contrast between the writing color and the background color? __**yes**__

do all my hyperlinks work? __**yes**__

do they all go to the right page? __**yes**__

are there too many hyperlinks? __**no**__ do i have unnecessary information on the pages? __**no**__ As you can see from my test results my webpage is not that bad but i think there is one thing which we can all agree on: the background colour is too bright. I really did not see this coming until is it was too late but I guess that I learn from my mistakes. I think that we can also agree on that my font was a good size and that my pictures were decent. My pages were also right to the point and there was no unnecessary information. This meant that they were easy to understand and overcome, which is a useful trait for a website since user mostly skim the pages. Before I started read part of a book about making a website and it said that people read 30-40 % slower on a screen which i took in mind and that's why some of the pages are quite short. There was no Glitches in my webpage (meaning no hyperlinks leading to the wrong place). This is a very good thing but it is one of the most common mistakes made when amateurs make website. I followed the design specification completely and I added all the pages that i was supposed to. I think i might even have added some extra pages. I changed around the navigational bar a couple of times but in the end i like it best on the left side. Overall i think my website is good. Recommendations for improvement I could change the colour of my background because apparently it hurts people's eyes. I should probably have made it a less bright colour and I should have made the colour the same for all the pages and for all parts of the page. It might also have been good idea if I had put some more time into the internet webpage because there is not a lot of information on it. If I had more time then i would have written more in the red part on all the pages because i kind of felt like that i didn't really answer all the user's question. I did have some minor spelling and grammar mistakes which i had looked over because i couldn't figure out how to spell-check in Microsoft Expression so that is a bit of a bummer. I could also have tried to make it look more appealing but other than that i think it was a "job well done" Self-evaluation of your execution of the design cycle I thought that I followed the design cycle quite well and it was also quite easy. When we just started our first unit I thought the cycle was very weird and confusing but now I am beginning to get used to it and it all seems to slowly make sense. When we were doing the investigate I thought I followed it pretty well. I do though think that i should have used some more time on the research and analysis. I thought I explained the problem very well and i also had a good test plan. I found design a very easy stage but i do think that i should have put colour on my designs. I am afraid that will pull me down but i still have a good analysis in design. I put a lot of effort into plan and I think it is a good plan. If i had to change something it would be the order of what to do on the last days. In create i thought I made a great website and i still do. I think that if I had changed the background colour of my Website it would have looked better and more professional. I am doing my evaluate right now and I think it is going pretty well. Overall I think I nailed this unit and i do not have a lot to regret.