Technology played a big role in the construction of the magazine, helping with research and learning Photoshop. Online survey tools like Survey Monkey were used to gather audience feedback through a shared Facebook link. The main programs used were Photoshop and InDesign, which improved creativity but had learning challenges like unknown tools and uncooperative images. Additional technologies like Piktochart, Thinglink, and Scribd helped create an interesting and interactive blog for presenting the final work.

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

2. Technology has had a big role in the whole process of
this magazine from helping me with my research to
helping work out how to use Photoshop properly for
my final product.

3. Using websites like survey monkey really helped with
the process of my audience questionnaire, as I could
enter all my question and multiple choice answers and
then just share a link on Facebook for my intended
audience to then fill out and respond to. All the results
would be on survey monkey for me to analyse to
enable me to improve my product.

4. The main programmes I used throughout was
Photoshop and InDesign as they played the biggest
part of the actual construction which really bloomed
the creativity of the magazine because of the range of
tools. These helped improve my final outcome so much
better, but obviously they came with the down falls
which included many tools I didn’t know how to use
where I watched many YouTube tutorials to help me
and how some images wouldn’t fit onto the
programme or the programme just didn’t want to
work.

5. The other ranges of technologies were for the
presentation of my work through the whole task onto
blogger, these all include: piktochart, thinglink, scribd,
slideshare, issuu, prezi, animoto and pinterest. These
all helped create such an interesting blog for me and
more interactive.