6. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

6. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT? Throughout the process of building my magazine I have learnt to use various different programmes and types of technology that I wouldn’t

usually have the opportunity to use. However I feel I have used the programmes to my upmost ability.

EDU BLOGSThroughout the process of working on my magazine I have learnt how organise and use a blog properly.

I am now able to creative pieces of work and post them online for others to see. I can upload text, pictures, polls, videos, audio, Prezi's and PowerPoints.

This was one of the most important things I learnt how to do to help organise my work

This button helped me to insert and embed things into

my blog.

INDESIGNInDesign was completely new to me at the start of the course. Despite this I come to grips with the

software and am able to use it well. Now I am able to use software to create an original piece of work. Below are some screen clippings from the software which I used.

To make text

Create a box

Create lines

Selecting things

Change the colours

Zoom in

Change text style

Change text to bold, italics etc.

Text size

Space between lines of text

Makes text capsUnderlines text

Puts line through text

Makes letters wider

Slants text

Pushes text line up

Makes text taller

Spaces letters out

Changes the thickness of the lines

Type of line

PHOTOSHOPUsing Photoshop has taught me how to edit pictures in ways to help portray certain images and pictures

in my magazine. Despite this I found the software hard to use at first as there are so many different things that you can do. However in the end I got to grips wit the software and could edit my picture to

suit the magazine I wanted to design.

Helped to make the picture darker to suit the image I wanted to portray. It also helped the definition of the colours.

This took the colour of the pictures.

This was used for the contents as well to make the image black and white.

This was used to make the double page spread yellower

PREZI

Joining the course was the reason that I discovered Prezi. Using this was good because you are essentially able to make a more exciting PowerPoint. The software was simple and easy to use. The only problem I found was that I couldn’t upload picture to the Prezi. This I don’t think was because of Prezi or it being complicated but because of the internet connection.

Click in the box and type what you want Click in the box and

type what you want

This is how you would edit where the slides went

POWERPOINT

I was already aware of PowerPoint before the course. However within the course I have been able to use new things like screen clipping to be able to show how I have used other

programmes. Using the programme was very easy and straight forward.

I can clip things off my screen to show what I did

SOUNDCLOUD

I was aware of Soundcloud before coming onto the course. However I wasn’t aware of how to use it. Within the process of the course I have learnt how to upload audio clips to

Soundcloud and then embed them into my blog.

YOUTUBE

Using YouTube was extremely easy. I did this by simply uploading the video to the website and then embedding it into my blog. Despite the fact that I had never done this before it

was extremely easy to use.