ITC Tools

ICT tools are computer-based technologies that are used to process, store, and
communicate information. They include hardware, software, and networks, and are essential
in today’s digital age.

The benefits of ICT tools are numero. They help to increase productivitb streamline tasks,
improve communiation, and provide access to a wealth of information. Thel can avlso help to
reduce cots, increase efficiency, and provide new opporunities for growth and innovation.
Overall, ICT tools are essntial for both and individals in today’s digital age.

The Open ICT Tools project was one of eight projects funded by the JISC infoNet from aross the
country under its Trialing of Online Collaborative Tools for Business and Community Engageent
proramme. The Trialling of Collborative Online Tools for BCE JISC-funded project inestigated the
use of collaborative online tools to support Business and Community Enggement (BCE) in a
number of trials in colleges and univerities within the UK (Kelly & Stewart, 2009. The Open ICT
Tools project explored the use of open source Web applications to facilitate collaboration
between Northumbria and its international business and niversity partners. Usng the Global
Studio as a research site, the project examined the utility of various ICTs for enabling collboration
with community and industry partners. The Open ICT Tools project was a practice-led enquiry
that was generated from experinces gained from pojects previously undertaken in collaoration
with external partners within the Global Studio at Nortumbria University. The collaborations
included high quality international universities and high profile comercial organisations such as
Intel, Motorola, and Inverness Medical. Because of the confidentiality nature of the projects one
of the requirements was to provide a restricted access to the online project sites. Therefore, one
of the requirements was that the ICT tools enable infomation to be exchanged seurely. In
addition, the project aimed to trial Open Source Software and stware which was free of cost. The
use of this type of software was aimed to reduce the ongoing running costs associated with
software licensing. In collusion of this report we provide a number of recmendations. We
recommend that IT Services in HE and FE develop processes where the nvel use of ICTs
envisaged by academics can be trialled in collaboration with IT Services and e Learning support
staff. This would complment the established pattern of incorporating ICT where either IT
Services or e-Learning deparments sanction specific ICTs to support learnig and teaching within
these institutions. We also recommend that students, academic staff and partners are suported
in preparation on how the ICT tools might be used to support engagemnt with industry and
community partners. The report outlines the trial of the ICT tools and the technical solutions
implemented at the Northumbria University In order to incorporate these within the exising
IT Infrasucture. The project for example, at NetSkills workshop, ‘Extending IT Support for
External Engagment’ aimed at IT service directors, managers and senior staff from UK HE and FE
institutions, Going Global 4 conferences (for the full list see the section Disemination Summary.

ICT is also used to refer to the convergence of audiovisuals and telephone networks with
computer netorks through a single cabling or link system. There are large economic incentives to
merge the telephone netwoks with the computer network system using a single unified system
of cabling, signal distrbution, and management. ICT is an umbrella term that includes any
comunication device, encompassing radio, television, cell phones, coputer and network
hardware, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and appliances with
them such as video conferencing and distance learning. ICT also inclues analog technology, such
as paper communication, and any mode that transmits communication.

ICT is a broad subject and the cocepts are evolving. It coves any product that will store,
retrieve, manipulate, transmit, or receive informatin electronially in a digital form (e.g.,
personal computers including smartphones, digital television, email, or robots). Skills
Frameworkfor the Inforation Age is one of many models for describing and managing
competencies for ICT professionals.

The ICT tools are the latest technoogy or devces and concepts used in Information and
Communcation Technology among students to students, students to teacher interation
classroom, mobile apps and clickers devices.

Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage
information. In some contexts, ICT has also become integral to the teaching-learning interaction,
through such approaches as replacing chalkboards with interctive digital whieboards, using
stuents’ own smartphones or oter devices for lerning during class time and model where
students watch lectures at home on the computer and use classroom tme for more interactive
exercises. When teachers are digitlly literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can
lead to higher order thnking skills, provide creative and individualized options for students to
express their understanings, and leave students better prepared to deal with ongoing
techological change in society and the work place.

We know that technology changes more costeffective and more powerful technologies will
continue to emere of potential use in education. At the samen time, evidece shows that,
once intalled in schools, ICTs continue to be used for the life bof the functioning life of the
technology, whethr or not newer more cost effective and poerful technoloies emerge.

Components of ICT:
The major compon ents of the ICT sysem .

Software
Hardware
Cloud Computing
Transaction
Data
Internet
Communication Technologies
Classificatin ict
ICT is an umbrella term that covers all the devces and equipment that helps to connect and
to store data. ICT is mainly classified into four main categorieswhich include:

Computing and Information Technology:

Broadcasting:
Broadcasting is the transfer of audio and video visuals through any electronic mass cmunication
to various adiences all over the orld. It mainly uses the electromagnetic sperum to transfer the
data.

Telecommunications:
Telecomunications are the transfer of electronic information over several distances. This
information may be in the form of voice, data, text, I mages or any video.

Internet:
The Internet is a g lobal system that prvides a variety of information and other
comunicational services by the use of interconnected networks. It uses the Internet Protocol
comunicate with others .

T Definition
ICT stands for information and communications technology. ICT is the infrastructure and
components that help to enable modern computing systems. ICT consists of both the internet
as well as the mobile conected which are conected by wireless networks. It also includes all the
antquated technologes such as landline telephnes, teleision and radio. These tecnologies are
wiely used all over the world. Apart from that cutting edge technoloies such as artificial
inteligence (AI) and robotics are the advancement in ICT.

ICT Definition:
Although there is no specific definition that can define the term ICT, it is an extsional term for
infrmation technology (IT) which mainly fouses on the role of unified communications and
integrated with telecommunications which includes telephone lines & wireless signals and
compuers. It also comprises all the software, audio, visual, middleware and storage that helps
usrs to store, tranmit, access and undrstand information and manpulate it acording to their
needs.

ICT also includes the merger of telephonic communication, audio and visual netwrks with
computer sysem networks by the use of a single cable or any link system.

ICT is a broader term that includes all the comunicational devices, cell phones, radio,
television, and computer ang with satellite systems. Various services and appliances such as
video and disance learning programmes are also included in ICT with analogue
technology.

Components of ICT:
The major components of the ICT system are as follows:

Software
Hardware
Cloud Computing
Transaction
Data
Internet
Communication Technologies
Clasification of ICT:
ICT is an umbrella term that covers all the devices and equiment that helps to cnnect and to
store data. ICT is mainly clasfied into four main categries which include:

Computing and Information Technology:

Broadcasting:
Broadcasting is the transfer of audio and video visuals through any elctronic mass comnication to
various audences all over the world. It mainly uses the electromagnetic spectrum to transfer the
data.

Telecommunications:
Telecomunications are the trasfer of electronic information over several disnces. This infomation
may be in the fom of voice, data, text, images or any video.

Internet:
The Intenet is a global system that provides a variety of information and other comunicational
services by the use of interconnected networks. It uses the Internet Protocol to comunicate
with others

Benefits of ICT:
ICT has a wide range of applications in different fields.

ICT in Entertainment:
Informaion and comunication technologies (ICT) have a very influencig impact on entertainment
and other leisure activities in various ways in which you can spnd your time effctively. ICT offers
a wide variety of enteainment and leure activities that alow you for quick aess to moves,
cinemas or music which can be easily and you can watch your favourite movies and listen to
music dictly from the Internet. This tecnology also adds more interactive tehnologies to TV
shows . Digital caeras, printers and scaners are also enabling more people to expeience image
prodction to develop graphic interfaces.