SOME ASPECTS OF STUDENT COMPUTER LITERACY

Abstract

Nowadays different skills in using a computer, which are being formed during the whole life, are important. These skills form the computer literacy of a person. Some of its components are considered in the article: the means of creation of presentation pdf-versions chosen by students, the size of presentation files, and problems of disproportional compressing of images. More than 600 works have been analyzed – presentations delivered from students according to the task in original and pdf-formats. The following conclusions are drawn on basis of file properties: many students don’t have enough knowledge about the simplest aspects of the most popular programs for presentation making; some students have poor computer literacy that appears in big file sizes and deformation of image proportions: there are several presentation files with sizes 40, 45 and even more than 200 Mb, although the adequate size would be less than 20 Mb; and deformed maps lost the scale. It is also proposed that the considered problems concern not only students.