The document discusses what the author has learned from using various digital tools. They learned to conduct more specific searches and find exact phrases using Google. With FindYourTribe, they gained a better understanding of their target audience. Microsoft PowerPoint helped with organizing research and planning. Facebook allowed creating events to coordinate photo shoots. Microsoft Excel helped with planning and setting targets. Using a digital camera improved photography skills. Adobe Photoshop and InDesign taught photo editing and text formatting skills. MindMeister, Prezi, Glogster, Voki, Mixpod, Pixton, GoAnimate, and Blogger provided new ways to creatively present work.

1. What have you learnt through the use
of Google?
Especially during the research part of
my coursework I found the use of
google extremely helpful but I also
developed my use of google by typing
in more specific searches to find what I
was really looking for and I learnt that
by adding speech marks (“”) I could
find specific words within each search.

2. What have I learnt by using
FindYourTribe?
I have used FindYourTribe to create a greater
understanding of my target audience and
therefore be more conventional within my
product as I have created a greater
understanding of my audiences hobbies and
needs and therefore include this in my product.
For example FindYourTribe informed me that
clubbing was popular within my target audience
and therefore I could reflect this in plugs on my
front cover and on my DPS.

3. What have I learnt through the use of
Microsoft PowerPoint?
PowerPoint also helped me be creative within my
work and set it out clearly which helped within
planning and research especially because I was able
to clearly identify things I had found out through the
organisation of my PowerPoint's.

4. What have I learnt through the use of
Facebook?
I developed my skills in Facebook by
learning how to create events with
multiple people within the events. This
was extremely helpful when planning to
meet up with people I wanted to
photograph for my magazine it meant I
could send out one email to everyone in
concern through a site which is popular
to my target audience and heavily used
by them meaning that I knew my models
would see this email quickly.

5. What have I learnt by using Microsoft
Excel?
I used Excel within the
planning of my coursework
and found it useful in that I
could be more organised
and plan what I was going
to do when and set myself
big targets in order to be
more creative within my
work.
I realised that Excel isn’t
just about numbers and
maths but can also be used
for time schedules and
planning.

6. What have I learnt using a Digital
Camera
Throughout all of the images I have used for
my products I have used this Sony camera. I
learnt a lot from using it by understanding
different shot types better for example close
up shots and how you can create different
connotations to the audience by having the
model in the middle of the image or slightly
off centre. Therefore the use of this camera
helped me develop my skills in camera work
and I feel my product even gets better as the
images go through from front cover to DPS. I
found that I was more creative in the use of
my camera throughout the production of my
products however this is partly due to front
covers and contents pages which have more
restricted typical conventions especially in
camera shots compared to DPS where there is
more creativity within the shot type.

7. What have I learnt using Adobe Photoshop?
I used Adobe Photoshop for my front cover
more than any of my other products. I found it
particularly helpful when editing my
main/background image. I used lots of different
tools to become more creative and look at
different ways of making my image look more
professional and attractive compared to
competitors and my target audience. I used the
lighting tool to try and draw attention to my
artist on the front cover however I decided that
a plain background was more effective.
I also learnt how to use the cutting tool around
hair more effectively although in my final
product i didn't choose to use it as I found it
made my particular image look flat and after
re-looking at my research I noticed it wasn’t
conventional to include this effect and
therefore I chose to keep my front cover more
simple as the effect wasn't as eye-catching as I
hoped.

8. What have I learnt using Adobe
InDesign?
I had never used Adobe InDesign before the
production of my products and I found it mostly
useful when inserting text into my products. The
things I learnt was the full extent to which you can
change a text for example changing the skew,
width, shadows, spacing between letters and lines,
borders around letters etc. I found this was very
interesting when then going back and analysing
existing media texts and understanding how they
really make their product look professional by
adding these special detailed effects.

9. What have I learnt through the use of
Mindmeister and Prezi?
Mindmeister and Prezi helped me during
my Evaluation process. I learnt that the
process of being able to represent work like
this suggests how far technology is
progressing in time. It has made me
understand a wider range of technologies I
can use for different things and how to
represent my work in a clear way in order
to get ideas across easily through images
and text. I was able to evaluate my work
logically using these sites.

10. What have I learnt through the use of
Glogster?
This piece of technology improved my
production as I was able to show the style of
my magazine through the use of a handmade
poster. This also helped show a better
understanding of who my target audience
were and therefore building myself almost a
mood board of the types of people targeted
at my magazine.
I have learnt how to make posters have a
new element to them the more 3D effect of
sound which is useful because if I were to go
on and make a website for my magazine
then this tool would come in handy for a
different angle of advertising, which would
also make me money.

11. What have I learnt through the use of
Voki?
Voki helped my work become more enjoyable so I could
show different ways of presenting my work but again I
was able to understand some new technologies to
consider using if I were to make a website for my
magazine. Voki would be particularly useful because it
makes the website unique and creates a personality
within it.

12. What have I learnt through the use of
Mixpod?
Mixpod creates an understanding for my audience
of what kind of music is involved in my magazine as
well as making my blog look more fun and
interactive for my audience. I learnt that there are
many different ways to be creative within media
now compared to what I knew at the start of my
coursework.
This greater understanding of creativity within
technology makes my products more fun and
attractive to my target audience.

13. What have I learnt through the use of
Pixton?
Pixton was another website used
to make the presentation of my
work more entertaining to look
through. It added another
dimension to my work making it
more creative and exciting to read
through.

14. What have I learnt through the use of
GoAnimate?
Go Animate made characters and
scenes so the situation seemed more
realistic and interesting to watch
rather than reading texts all the time.
I found that it was difficult to make
the text fit into the characters slots
as their was a maximum word count
which made the job slightly more
challenging however it meant that
their weren't long bits of text that
was difficult to understand for the
audience.

15. What have I learnt by using Blogger?
Throughout the use of blogger I have been able to present
my work in a more creative way and therefore express the
genre of my music through this. It has enabled me to show
off my skills within media and reflect the style of my
magazine.