6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

I went through a long and hard process to create my final product. Although I was only required to do three pages, a lot of time went into it.I had to use many programmes that I had never used before or was not familiar with.

SLR Camera

I was not particularly familiar with an SLR camera as I had never used it before apart from in some media classes. I found it easy to use as it would automatically focus on my models face or any particular thing I wished for it to focus on. The interior setting I used was helpful as the brightness in the room was just right whereas if I intended on using an exterior setting I would had come across many lighting issues e.g. rainy day.

Websites and programmes

To edit some pictures I used Pixlr.com which I was very familiar with as I often use that website to edit my pictures.

However, I had never used Photoshop as it was very complicated to understand. After downloading the 30 day trial for Photoshop CS6 I got used to the programme over a few days as I experimented with it and watched many YouTube videos to do things like getting rid of a background.

Showcasing my research

I used many websites to showcase my research. One that I used a lot was Prezi which was very effective as it offered many templates and was easy to function.

I also used Slideshare which was even easier as most of the research I did was done on powerpoint therefore all that was required was to upload my work onto the website and embed it onto Wikispaces.

To showcase my questionnaire and research from it I used Microsoft Excel which I used on many occasions especially during ICT in secondary school.

Slide share

Using Prezi during my step to step guide

Showcasing my research

The newest web applications that I learnt to use were Powtoon and Youtube. As I have never made my own video before I found it difficult to get used to creating Youtube presentation however after watching a few examples I learnt my way around it. Powtoon was fairly easy to use as it was basic and was similar to Prezi.

The main web application that I got extremely used to was Wikispaces. The website was very easy to get around with. Uploading images was simple and so was embedding presentations. However in the beginning I did come across some problems such as uploading other peoples work rather than mine because I saved my work as similar title to my peers. I fixed this problem by saving all my work with my name in capital letters in the beginning so that in future no one would upload my work and vice versa.