The document discusses various websites and online tools that the author has used for research, planning, organizing, and presenting coursework. It provides examples of how the author used Blogger to upload and organize work, Prezi for online presentations, Glogster and Pintrest for mood boards and collecting ideas, Bitstrips and Snacktools for creative presentations, and Wix to build a website. The author found these sites useful for planning, organizing ideas visually, getting inspiration from others, and developing online presentation skills. Overall, the document reflects on how various digital tools helped the author with different aspects of their coursework.

1. Research + Planning
Sites used throughout coursework

2. Blogger
• Blogger has been an exceptional website to
create and upload my coursework to. It has
enabled me to organize my work in the forms
of posts, which makes uploading seem less
like work and more like a journal/diary entry.
This method of documenting makes work
easy to catalog and look through using
widgets such as the archive tool located on
the left side bar. The comments section also
makes feedback from teachers readily
available, but also ensures that you know
how to improve each 'post' or section of
work. Blogger made me realize that
organisation is necessary to be successful.
• Blogger has also been a useful to look at
other past students blogs to take inspiration
and see what work is required for sections i
was unsure about. Despite not being a
students blog, Pete's Media Blog has been
great for background reading and relating
topics to our music video coursework
Pete's Media Magazine Blog
Blog Archive –
from above

3. Prezi
• Prezi is on online power point program,
which enables you (and others as you can
co-edit with others) create online power
points, similar to Microsoft, yet it seems
much more modern. Instead of having
individual slides, you have a large canvas to
work on. This appeals to me more as It is a
more visual program and it gives the
creator much more freedom in relation to
content as you are able to directly add
videos from YouTube and images straight
from Google. Pezi has allowed me to edit
anywhere as it uses cloud storage which
means I can access it from any computer.
However it does tend to operate much
slower on older computers, which I
discovered when using the home desktop.
Pezi has made me consider how topics link
together verbally but also graphically with
images.
Prezi layout – pre-set design
Share prezi to co-edit

4. Glogster
• Glogster is an online mood board
creator with similar qualities to prezi.
We mainly used this to create boards of
our shoots. This enabled us to add
images to the board tat we had taken
throughout the day with smaller
captions next to them. It allows the user
to present their content in a more
creative manner with textured papers
and a variation of text fonts and sizes. It
also has the capacity to add direct
videos and photos from Google and
YouTube. As prezi, glogster also give you
preset designs to help arrange your
content in a more fluent manner.
Because of its nature, this site is
designed to create more artistic pieces
which inform the viewer more visually
rather than verbally. Glogster has taught
me that images are necessary to convey
what you are trying to present.
Pre-set design

5. Pintrest
• We used pintrest throughout our
genre research. Pintrest enables
you to create pin boards of images
from their search engine. This is a
user based engine, so all of the
content has been uploaded by its
users. Topics range from fashion to
DIY's. We used this create pin
boards and collate ideas for our
chosen genre of indie rock. Our
pins varied from the clothing the
target audience wore, where they
shop and ate. I feel that this
website is easy to navigate and
collect ideas. It is especially for
organisation as all of the photos
are in one place, rather than
having individual photos in a folder.
I have also enjoyed using that I
have transferred using it in my
other subjects. Textiles for
example, it has allowed me to
create boards to collect ideas and
refine my chosen topic.
One of our boards during research
+ planning process

6. Bitstrips
• Bitstrips is website which allows the
user to create comic strips for any
purpose. In our case this was
presenting the target audience. We
had made a character who we put
in different scenarios to present the
likes dislikes and activities they
participate in. I feel that this
creative website allows you to
present your research in a more
creative manner. This site was
relatively easy to navigate and
create with, however, I have yet to
apply it to other lessons but do
intend to use it in my upcoming
English Language coursework.

7. Snacktools
• Snacktools is a website which
allows the user to create
numerous things. From photo
slideshows, polls, flip books
online presentations and many
more. I used this site to create
presentations and flip books so
that images didn't take up large
amounts of space. This site was
useful and made me realize that
space is important when
presenting work to others,
columns of photos can be quite
boring, to 'fix' this snacktools
was helpful putting them into a
slide show.

8. Slideshare
• Slide share has been a very useful
tool in relation to sharing content
and putting Microsoft documents
such as powerpoint and word into
blogs in an embedded format. This
also reduces the space taken up as
you can scroll through the point or
powerpoint in one frame, which
makes things much more confined
and organised. It has also been
useful to look at other students
work to ideas and research as
anything you upload can be seen
by others. This has taught me that
looking at other peoples work is
useful when I am unsure of how to
complete a task.
Slideshare homepage

9. Bubbl
• Bubbl has allowed me to create
online spider diagrams to collect
ideas and present to others. Due
to its online nature this too has
the ability to be embedded into a
blog post which means its much
more efficient in comparison to
hand written as this uses a cloud
storage, so can be edited
anywhere. I feel that this will be a
site that I could potentially use in
other ares of my a level courses,
for instance Textiles to narrow
down ideas, and English to
organise my ideas in the data
investigation coursework. This has
taught me that the planning
stages are necessary to organise
yourself and stick to a plan
Bubbl Homepage

10. Exam time
• Exam time is rather similar to
Bubbl in the way of format. It
too is a online mind map site.
The useful features also allow
you to publish to blogs in the
form of an embedded code. I
am unsure of which mind map
process I will use in the future
as they are both equally good. I
have also used the flash card
feature in other lessons and
found this useful. Similarly exam
time has taught me that
planning is essential as you can
always look back our your initial
ideas if you get stuck or need
some inspiration.
Exam time Homepage

11. Wix
• We used the website creator wix in order
to make our own website for promotional
aspect of our coursework. This taught us
how to make a website effectively and
how to make it user friendly to our
audience. The guidance throughout the
creation was use full. If I wasn't sure how
to make an aspect of the website where
was a search bar or question marks to
click on, so help wasn't far away. Wix has
shown me that a strong online presence is
an essential part of modern day marketing
and adverting, without it a business will
struggle to make an impact and compete
against larger companies. This inevitably is
information that I will take with me into
higher education on a marketing
course.
Wix Homepage
Our Website - created on Wix

12. Youtube
• Youtube is such a large platform. Holding video
from fashion to DIY. However when we were
challenged with something that we weren't sure
how to tackle we looked to youtube for video
tutorials. This helped immensely when we
weren't sure how to do something specific in
final cut or Photoshop. I learnt from this to be
more independent and doing my own research is
just as good as asking a teacher for help. If I
actively find out the information myself, I am
more likely to remember the information. In
relation to other alevel subjects, youtube is great
for secondary research for English Language for
documentaries and many other things. For
textiles large companies often have youtube
channels where they upload there own videos of
catwalks and fashion week exhibitions, which
does no only give an image of the clothing, but it
also give you impression of how the fabric drops
and moves, which I think is imperative when
talking about a specific garment. This has taught
me the power and potential videos have but also
uploading to a host gives your videos more
exposure in terms of views and recognition.
Youtube Homepage

13. Vimeo
• Vimeo is similar to YouTube in the
way it is a video hosting site,
however I believe that YouTube in
more interactive with its users and
perhaps more user friendly. I used
it to upload our video as it takes
less time to upload and YouTube
tends to have more restrictions in
what you can upload. Similar to
YouTube in a sense of being a
video hosting website, however it
has less users due to YouTube
being the dominant host. For this
reason I feel that using this in the
future might not be the best
depending on the situation.
Vimeo Homepage