Over the past few months working on music magazines, the author has used various technologies to design, create, and publish their work. They were already proficient in Adobe Photoshop but improved their skills over time. They also learned to use Blogger to post their coursework online, though it was initially tricky. Other technologies like PowerPoint, SlideShare, and the internet were used for research and sharing work, with the internet being integral to their process.

1. Evaluation
6 - What have you learnt about
technologies form the process of
constructing this product?

2. Over the past few months that
we have been making our
music magazines, we have
used different technologies to
design, create and publish to
an audience.

3. One piece of technology that I
already knew very well was Adobe
Photoshop. With this software, you
can create your own images and
designs for anything.
Even though I started using
Photoshop many years ago, it is only
over the past couple of
years, through my GCSEs and A-
Levels than I have improved greatly
in its use, acquiring many skills from
it in the process.

4. One thing that I had never used
before however, was Blogger.
Blogger allows you to post things
that you have created in your own
personal webpage.
Having never used it before, I found
it tricky to use at first. But after just a
couple of weeks I was able to easily
use it to post the various pieces of
my coursework, such as research,
plans, designs, and the final pieces of
finished work themselves.

5. I used something which I have used
for around 10 years in Microsoft
PowerPoint, to create various
slideshows on my research into the
Britpop genre, analysis of magazines
such as Rolling Stone, as well as
other things, including this
evaluation.
Something else that I used in
cooperation with PowerPoint was
SlideShare. This was another thing I
had never used before, so it took a
while to get into it. SlideShare allows
you to upload your slideshows to the
internet, an then (to a further
extent) allows you to embed them
onto a blog, specifically mine.

6. Another (blatantly obvious)
technology that I used was the
Internet, which I have used ever
The Wikipedia
since I started using a computer, and
page for Britpop. is still the main reason I’d use one. I
used it to help research my
ideas, designs and
analysis, incorporating it with things
such as PowerPoint in order to
express what I'd found more easily. I
used various info websites, such as
Wikipedia, but also the websites of
existing music Mags, such as NME
NME.com
and Rolling Stone.
RollingStone.com