1. In Pairs… Your teacher will allocate you and your partner a topic. Each topic will look at how ICT is used and the impact it has had on work related life in a variety of professions. Your task is to create an Information Sheet on your topic including as much information as possible. These will then be collated together to produce an information booklet for you and the rest of your group. You have the rest of this lesson and next lesson to complete your information sheet. Use both the textbook and the igcse website to help you.

2. The Information Sheet Create your information sheet in Word It must be no longer than 2 sides of A4 It must cover all the required content Use font Calibri, size 16, bold and underline for the main heading Use font Calibri, size 14, bold for subheadings Use font Calibri, size 12 for the rest of the text Add pictures where possible

3. Reminder Remember, your information sheet needs to be completed and uploaded to the VLE by the end of the lesson so that it can be collated and added to the booklet you will be given next lesson.

4. The impact of ICT on work life Communication applications (the internet, email, fax, electronic conferencing, mobile telephones and internet telephony services) Applications for publicity and corporate image publications (business cards, letterheads, flyers and brochures) Applications in manufacturing industries (robotics in manufacture and production line control) Applications for finance departments (billing systems, stock control and payroll) School management systems (including registration, records and reports) Booking systems (such as those in the travel industry, the theatre and cinemas)

5. The impact of ICT on work life Applications in banking (including Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), ATMs for cash withdrawals and bill paying, credit/debit cards, cheque clearing, phone banking, internet banking) Applications in medicine (including doctors’ information systems, hospital and pharmacy records, monitoring and expert systems for diagnosis Applications in libraries (such as records of books and borrowers and the issue of books) The use of expert systems (for example in mineral prospecting, car engine fault diagnosis, medical diagnosis, chess games) Applications in the retail industry (stock control, POS, EFTPOS, internet shopping, automatic reordering)