In week one, there was an introduction to informations technology and the benefits of IT in the work place. Some IT tools that are use are video conferencing, electronic health records systems, e-mail, as well as many others. With the advancements of IT, have come many tools that have bettered both the workplace as well as personal lives. IT tools such as video conferencing and e-mail have allowed businesses to better communicate without needing to be close by. Video conferencing and e-mail have also allowed for families to stay close even while living miles apart.
With the advancement of IT, there have also been new ethical issues that have arisen. Some of those issues include piracy and taking advantage of children. IT has brought a whole new world to our current world and with that, many ethical issues have come up. Website owners also took advantage of young children by marking to them. The music industry was brought major struggle when consumers were able to get free or even purchased singles and albums with the simple click of a button. Even though downloading free music is illegal, it is still attainable and has caused the music industry to find more ways to profit.
Other information learned in week one was the use of Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word is one of the most popular word processors and has many tools. With word, individuals are able to place images, tables, and graphs to documents. People can also change fonts, add water marking, and add headers and footers to papers. Microsoft Word is a very beneficial word processor and allows for individuals to do almost anything to their papers with ease.
This week’s material has opened my eyes to many of the negatives that have occurred because of informations technologies. I had always seen it as very beneficial and had not truly realize the so many un-ethical behaviors raised the need for more acts to be