The document discusses the various technologies the student used during their magazine coursework project. This included using a laptop and memory stick to transfer work between home and college, a Canon camera to take photos, Microsoft Outlook for emailing work and keeping track of deadlines, Corel Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop for editing photos, Adobe InDesign for creating the magazine layout, Microsoft Word for typing work and Microsoft PowerPoint for research presentations. The student also used SlideShare to embed documents in blog posts, created a Blogger account to upload all work and projects, and used Facebook to communicate with models and locations.

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

2. This is the laptop that I did most of my work on when I
was at home. I also used the dell computers at college to
do my work during lessons.

3. I also used a memory stick to transfer work from my
laptop to college and my work in my lessons to my laptop
at home to carry on with my work. This was very helpful
because it allowed me to work in many different places in
order to complete things faster as well as backing up any
work.

4. I took all the photos for my magazine on my canon camera.
This camera provided good quality images because I was able
to change many settings in order to get the image I wanted.
Having a professional camera also meant that I could create
more ‘magazine realistic’ photos.

5. I used Microsoft outlook to email work to myself from college
to home and the other way around. I also used it to keep in
contact with teachers and help keep tract of deadlines and
other important information.

6. I used Corel Paint Shop Pro X to edit some of my images when I did not have
use of the college computers and Photoshop. I used both of these to adjust
the photo and improve it, as well as make the images ready to be used in
InDesgn. The tools I found most useful were the smart photo fix, the lasoo
and the airbrush tool.

7. I learnt to use Adobe InDesign to create my magazine for the preliminary and
main task. This is what I used to create all my final products. I found it difficult at
first as it was all new to me but eventually I learnt how to use it and how to create
different things. It was especially good as it allowed you to create a very
professional magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

8. I also used Microsoft Word to type up a lot of my work before it went onto my blog as I
found it a lot easy to read and spell check. . I used Microsoft Power Point quite a lot,
especially during my research to up load analysis's and results. I found it was a good
way to put information together.

9. I uploaded all documents to slideshare which then allowed me to embed
them in to my blog posts. This was very helpful when adding work to my
blogs as it gave a different way of presenting information.

10. All of my magazine coursework was uploaded to blogger. I created an account to
upload all my work on to. I found this a good way to all of my work together and
was very easy to use. It allowed me to upload images and my PowerPoint's and
documents from slideshare, as well as explain in detail each part of my work in
each post. Its was all clearly laid out so you could see what each post was about.
This also made it easy to go back and edit any previous posts.

11. Facebook played an important part of my organisation of locations and
models all very important part of my magazine. It allowed me to
communicate with people easily and get fast feedback.