Essays 2-03b: How Useful Computers are for Homework

Today, the society of this world is information technology society. We can touch a lot of things all over the world. This is why we have many chances to touch computer. Computers are used as tools for doing many things.　For example there are Excel that can make table and do spread seat. Because of this IT society, we study many things by using computer at university. Because it is easy and convenience for teachers to check the homework.

In our case: department English, second period students have many classes that give us homework. To do this homework, they need to use computer because it set them to do homework on blog. The blog homework system is very nice way to teachers check them because blog is kind of Internet’s advantage. Second period students can see the blog anywhere and teacher too. This is why teacher can check student’s homework anywhere and anytime. By using computer’s function; Internet, the efficiency will be more increase.

There are many good tools to study English. For example there are EnglishCentral, PowerWords, and so on. The Internet can be a good tool to study languages. Moreover, Internet can see over sea’s websites, so we can see timely over foreign country’s current events at foreign languages. It must be good point to study foreign country too.

When you were doing report at PC; Microsoft Word, but you needed to leave from PC. You have to save the data, but you didn’t have USB memory stick. How will you do? You can use Google Drive. We can save the data Google Drive and you can download them on another computer. Moreover we can share their files with another student and teacher. This is very nice point. You need not to send the file for them and if you needed to work with them, you can edit same file by using two computers. Google drive make our task more efficiently.

There are office tool on PC. There are Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, and so on. They have each unique point. Microsoft Word has a function; make paragraphs automatically. This is very useful. When you want to make another paragraph, you just need to push Enter key twice. Microsoft Excel has automatically calculated system. It is very useful too because we need not to use an electric calculator. It makes graphs automatically, so you need not to make seat. Microsoft Power Point can make nice presentation by using PC with visual medias.

When you make reports, how do you make them? When you want to read books to make that, but you have no time to go to library, how do you do? The easy way is using computer and see many Internet sites. When you put a word on search box, you can see more 10000 sites. You can get much information about a thing that you need to research something. From these sites, you can get more information and use them. Internet must be good tool to study something.

There are many good sites. Especially there are movie share site called YouTube. The site is very nice. When you want to know something, you can learn the thing on movie, so it may more easy to read some sites or books. YouTube can be a good tool to study. As I said before, YouTube is connected all over the world, so you can get not only Japan’s information but also other country’s information.

There are not only advantages. There are disadvantages too. Too use computer is not good for your health. To use computer too long causes eyesight problems. It means low vision problems. You know how useful it is, but you must know too use computer is not good your health.

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