1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES
FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT?
2. ONLINE
Blogger was a site that I had to learn to use as It enabled
me to upload all my coursework from research to final. You Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that
are always able to keep track of your work as blogger is opens up a new world between whiteboards and
very organised. Also blogger allows you to embed a lot of slides which I used for one of my evaluation
your work such a videos & documents therefore you are questions. The website helped increase my
able to view everything on blogger without going to different confidence in ICT as well as helping to illustrate my
links. links ideas in a more interactive way
Scribd was a similar site as Slideshare
however it was specifically for
Slideshare was site that enabled me to upload documents such as word docs which I
any power point I created so it could be embed uploaded on this site and embedding
on a link which I then uploaded on blogger. them onto my blog
3. HARDWARE
Still Camera: the camera was needed to take photos for both my preliminary task and music
magazine. The camera wasn’t mine, in fact it was the colleges which I borrowed after signing forms
for evidence of loaning. I used the camera within college grounds as most of the equipment and
scenery was already there. The camera helped develop my photographic skills as I learnt how to
take different camera shots through different angles and places.
Voice recorder: Used to record my focus group talk about their opinions on my magazine
Computer: This was used throughout the entire process
Scanner: Needed to scan my written drafts of my magazine in which it enabled them to be shown
on the computer ready to be uploaded on the blog
Printer: This was needed to print my questionnaires, focus group questions and my magazines
4. SOFTWARE'S
I used Microsoft Word which is a word processing I used Microsoft PowerPoint due to how powerful it is in terms of
document. There is a tools menu that will check the software which I learnt has a lot of unique features that can
spelling and grammar in the document for be very useful for my document such as transition effects which
possible spelling and grammar errors. It also would make my document more appealing, as it would illustrate
displays suggestions for correcting them. It can be how exciting the presentation is. It also allows instances such as
used for complex documents normally designed in including sound and videos in the document which within a
a dedicated page layout program. It is also very limited space can give so much data and information. You can
friendly as in people who aren’t that good with import images very easily due to the fact that there are prebuilt
computers will not struggle to use this software as templates and appearances for you to use straight away which
everything is in obviously places and simple to saves time. I used this software for a few of my evaluation
understand. questions.
Photoshop has many good tools to create many InDesign is another Adobe product that serves as a powerful
different effects. It is also easy to use, and is layout tool. The program allows you to link other native Adobe
constantly being updated by Adobe. There are documents such as Photoshop and Illustrator files to it. Its
many resources for it available on the internet. I similar to Microsoft publisher however there are more tools to
used these effects at easy when editing my images choose from to help make your document, it’s like the formal
for both my magazines so it looked more version of Photoshop. I used InDesign for both my contents
appealing for my media product page and double page spread learning how to use different
tools such as stroke so my magazine looked much better.
