The document discusses the various technologies and software programs the student used during their course to construct their final product, a magazine called Countrypolitan. They learned to use Adobe Elements 11, Blogger, ThingLink, Emaze, Prezi, Word, and more to design pages, analyze content, conduct research, and present their work. Transferring photos between a camera, memory card, card reader, and computer was also an important skill learned. Overall, the student gained experience with many multimedia tools to complete their magazine.

1. What have you learned about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Question 6

2. Technologies I Have Used
• Camera (Panasonic Lumix FZ62)
• Tripod
• Memory Card
• Memory Card Reader
• Mac Computer
• Blogger
• Slidely
• Adobe Elements 11
• Printer
• Prezi
• Emaze
• Pow Toon
• Powerpoint
• Word Document
• Flickr
• Wordle
• Word Cloud
• Thing Link
• Gmail

3. Gmail
• When I started the course it encouraged me to
make a Gmail account since it was the only
email provider that works on the 6th Form
server.
• It let me sign up for all of the following
websites.
• It let me and my teachers communicate whilst
I was at home so I could improve my work.

4. Prezi
I’ve used Prezi’s during the course in order to present my work
neat and in a highly interactive way. It gave me a simple layout
that made my analysis’ and research posts easy to navigate
through. I used screen grabs and cut aways using the “snipping
tool” to add corresponding images to the text I was referring
to. I found that Prezi was one of the best software's for making
presentations and even though it was a completely new
website to me, I still understood how to use it all the way from
the beginning of the course. I will definitely be using it again in
the future.

5. Images and Text
At the start of the course, to analyse magazines I mainly used
Blogger. This was very simple so do as I only had to copy and
paste images and use screen captures of the section of the
magazine that I wanted to analyse in depth. As the course
progressed my use of software and variety of websites increased
so I didn’t have to stick to this format. In my opinion this method
of analysis was quite boring
and I think if I were to analyse
future magazines I would use
programmes like thinglink or
emaze.

6. Word Document
I’ve used Microsoft Word ever since Primary
School so when I started the course I was eager
to use it again. I copy and pasted images and
added screengrabs. I also used Word to create
surveys for my TA research
which I either printed out
and sent round 6th Form
for people to fill out, or
emailed to various people.

7. Apple Mac Computer
I did all of my coursework on a Mac Computer
due to its ease and simplicity. They are very
modern and made it much easier to use
Adobe Elements 11 as the mouse and
keyboard have more shortcuts which sped up
the construction process. I also have a
Macbook Pro at home so the familiarity of the
Mac’s at 6th form helped a lot too.

8. ThingLink
I used ThingLink a lot!
It was my favourite way
to analyse magazine
Covers because since I used still images to analyse, it made
it perfect to put tags on. ThingLink is another interactive
way of presenting your work and I will absolutely use it
again purely because it wasn’t time consuming and it
allowed me to be thorough when it came down to analysis’.
One thing about using ThingLink is that I had to embed it
to my blog once I had finished it which allowed anyone
who could access my blog to view my ThingLinks.

9. Embedding
Most of the websites I used during my
research stage had to be embedded
onto my Blogger profile. This taught
me how to incoorperate the work I did
on other websites onto my blog and
mage it much more fun when it came
to viewing all of my research and
planning posts in one place (my blog).

10. Blogger
Blogger was where all the magic happened… besides
from Photoshop. All of my work made its way back to
Blogger whether it was through embedding, copying
and pasting or inserting images. My whole journey has
been presented to you on Blogger and it is where I
recorded a lot of my TA
researches. I saved drafts
of my posts so I could go
back to them later to
update and finally publish
when they were ready.

11. Camera (Panasonic Lumix FZ62)
Using this camera was a great way to
experiment taking pictures using different
angles and depths of fields. The positioning of
my camera was very important since different
angles and distances create different
connotations. With help from a tripod, I took
all of the photos featured in Countrypolitan on
this camera and used a variety of shot types to
bring it to life.

12. Emaze
Emaze was my favourite website for creating fun
effective presentations. It works a lot like
PowerPoint which is one of the many reasons why I
was so fond of it. I could insert images onto it and
display my research in a professional way. It allowed
me to make pie charts and format each page
differently so its never boring watching an Emaze
presentation.

13. Memory Card /
Memory Card Reader
I learned how to transfer the pictures from my
photo shoots onto my computer and then onto
Blogger via a memory card reader. This was an
essential piece of hardware as without it I woud
not have been able to import my photos onto
Flickr (for feedback), Blogger (to present them)
or any other website.

14. Slidely
Slidely was also another good
website to use instead of creating a
mood board. Mood boards are fun
to make but if you put all of those
images on a Slidely instead you are
able to upload music along side
them creating a fun and exciting
tone to the slide show. I used Slidely
predominantly to show who my TA
were and to create a collection of
photos from my photo shoots.

15. Flickr
Flickr was handy for
getting quick, detailed
feedback from the pubic
and let me her what they
had to say about my photographs. I used
Flickr from the beginning of the course
and joined the Vale Media Group so I
could hear from my peers as well.
Reading comments from my TA on Flickr
influenced my decisions when it came to
Countrypolitan and made me change the
font and colours of my magazine.

16. Adobe Elements 11
I was completely unfamiliar with using Adobe Elements
11 at the start of the course which worried me slightly
since I knew I only had a few weeks to put together my
magazine.
I stayed after school and spent
all of my free periods getting
used to the software and
experimenting with different
tools to ensure that
Countrypolitan would be the
best I could make it.

17. Adobe Elements 11
By the end of the construction
phase, each of my pages had a lot
of layers. I learned how to hide
some of the layers (e.g. the lines
which were used to align the
columns) and add effects to some
of the text (e.g. drop shadows or
textures).

18. Adobe Elements 11
I used a bevel on the title of my contents
page to give it the “leather” look which was
very easy to do. Adobe Elements 11 offered
a wide range of effects which were
essential to make Countrypolitan look
highly textured and unique. I used graphics
to set the background for my DPS since I
found a “scrapbook” type of background
that gave my page a personal touch.

19. Adobe Elements 11
• Levels
• Add Layer Mask
• Spot Healing Tool
• Paintbrush
• Text Boxes
• Burn/Dodge
• Clone Tool
• Shapes
• Colour Selector
• Smart Brush
• Blur/Sharpen Tool