social media channels (e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, discussion boards) document stores (upload and download) RSS feeds 1.7/1.8 Advantages: Advantages for individuals (e.g. speed of and personal communication, easy Disadvantages access to large amounts of of Global information for research, access to Information internet banking 24/7) for organisations (e.g. share large amounts of information quickly between different countries; charity websites accepting donations 24/7) Disadvantages: for individuals (e.g. potential for identity theft, cost of data connection) for organisations (e.g. threats caused by malicious attacks, cost of maintaining websites and data stores) 2 Understand the styles, classification and the management of global information 2.1 text (different character sets, e.g. Information Western, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.) styles and graphic (e.g. logo, photograph, uses diagram) video (e.g. instructions on how to carry out a software update, live broadcast of a music festival) animated graphic (e.g. pop-up book character, operation of the human heart) audio (e.g. spoken instructions, music track) numerical (e.g. profit, date and time) Braille text (e.g. written report printed on a Braille printer) tactile images (e.g. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images converted into tactile images for people who cannot explore the images by sight) subtitles (e.g. translated speech for a film in a foreign language) boolean (e.g. yes or no answer on a form) tables and spreadsheets (e.g. simple database tables and spreadsheets) charts and graphs (e.g. identifying trends, making comparisons)
social media channels (e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, discussion boards) document stores (upload and download) RSS feeds 1.7/1.8 Advantages and Disadvantages of Global Information Advantages: for individuals (e.g. speed of personal communication, easy access to large amounts of information for research, access to internet banking 24/7) for organisations (e.g. share large amounts of information quickly between different countries; charity websites accepting donations 24/7) Disadvantages: for individuals (e.g. potential for identity theft, cost of data connection) for organisations (e.g. threats caused by malicious attacks, cost of maintaining websites and data stores) 2 Understand the styles, classification and the management of global information 2.1 Information styles and uses text (different character sets, e.g. Western, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.) graphic (e.g. logo, photograph, diagram) video (e.g. instructions on how to carry out a software update, live broadcast of a music festival) animated graphic (e.g. pop-up book character, operation of the human heart) audio (e.g. spoken instructions, music track) numerical (e.g. profit, date and time) Braille text (e.g. written report printed on a Braille printer) tactile images (e.g. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images converted into tactile images for people who cannot explore the images by sight) subtitles (e.g. translated speech for a film in a foreign language) boolean (e.g. yes or no answer on a form) tables and spreadsheets (e.g. simple database tables and spreadsheets) charts and graphs (e.g. identifying trends, making comparisons)
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