The document discusses the author's use of technology, specifically IMacs, in creating a school project and magazine. The author details using the school's IMacs and learning to navigate new programs like Pages. While Pages helped with design elements, the author disliked the outcome and switched to Microsoft Publisher. The author learned that technology can be difficult to learn and use, and programs don't always transfer work seamlessly between each other. Overall, the experience showed the importance of using programs you understand to avoid wasting time.

1. Technology
Throughout the process of researching, designing and making my
project and magazine, I have used a range of technology to help
me reach my end product. In the next slides I will be showing you
the main pieces of technology that I have used throughout and
things I have learnt from using them.
IMacs
I have used the IMacs a lot of the time, whilst doing this project
mainly because we have them based at our school, in our media
lessons. Before this project, it was the first time I had ever used
one, so as you can image I was getting extremely confused! But
after a little of playing around and being taught how to use certain
programmes, they become easier to use. However, we only have a
total of 9 Macs in the school, so we have to share them around so
everyone can have a turn- this can get very frustrating some times
as well as most of our work was saved on particular Macs, when
they could of been in use.
The Macs however are very useful to use as they have different
programmes and software, in comparison to a standard laptop
that only mainly has Microsoft. I used a range of programmes but
mostly 'Pages', as it helped me a lot when it came to designing
and putting my magazine together. I started my magazine by
using 'Pages', as it seemed easier to use in relation to Microsoft
Word, mainly because there were more extra tools that allowed
me to fade/shadow my pictures or backgrounds, add features like
funky text boxes or bubbles and I also liked how I could move
objects and images around the page easier. However, when it
came to finishing my 1st draft of my magazine, using this program
I had doubts, and disliked a lot of the out come so I then moved
on to using Microsoft Publisher for the rest of the work. On the
other hand, I did use this piece of software to produce my mood
boards, and I thought it worked very well as it was quick and easy
to place the images together, move them around and add extras
to them like the fade.
By using something completely different, I think its learnt me to
not put too much trust into technology, as it can be difficult to get
your head round and isn't always going to be simply to use. Its
also very important to realise that sometimes you may not like

2. using a program and it simply isn't for you, meaning you need to
think quickly in order to move on using something different, over
wise you'll be wasting time. Having different programmes in both
Microsoft and Pages has also been very annoying, mainly because
I have learnt how to use certain things that I wanted to include in
my magazine in Pages, but I haven't been able to get it on
Microsoft. This is also the same with transferring work from one
programme to another- it cant be done, which is very annoying!
My overall thought from using the Macs are to now stick with
something I feel comfortable and confident about using, as it is
time consuming trying to work with something that you currently
don't no how to work.