What have you learnt about technologies through the process of constructing this product?
- 1. What have you learnt about technologies through the process of constructing this product? Kieran Hepworth
- 2. Technology • Technology was key in helping me produce my media product. • During the process of producing my media product, I learnt a lot about technology and how to operate different software and hardware.
- 3. Software I used to produce my product: • Adobe Photoshop (planning, production) • Microsoft Word (research, planning, production) • Microsoft Publisher (planning, production) • Microsoft PowerPoint (research, planning, evaluation) • Slideshare (evaluation) • Blogger (research, planning, production, evaluation) • Dafont.com (research, production) • SurveyMonkey.com (research, planning, evaluation)
- 4. Hardware I used to produce my product: • Digital SLR Camera (planning, production) • USB Memory Stick (research, planning, production, evaluation) • SD Card (planning, production)
- 5. What I have learnt: When using Adobe Photoshop, I learnt an array of skills, such as how to edit the levels and other properties of photos. I learnt how to edit photos and crop them. I learnt how to cut photos out using magnetic lines. I also learnt how to edit pixels on pictures. When using Dafont.com I learnt how to download a font and then, using extract all files, move the font files to the system, enabling me to use the font in Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word and other programmes. When using Blogger, I learnt a lot about editing the format and template of my blog and how to insert tools, such as a Google translate button.
- 6. Macro Technology It is fair to say that without any technology there is absolutely no chance I could have completed my coursework. You could go as far to say I could not have done any of my coursework without technology. I could have completed my coursework without websites such as Dafont.com and SlideShare but I feel that using these websites vastly improved the quality of my project. Without the aid of an SD Card and Digital SLR Camera I think I would not have been able to complete my course work to high standard, although I could have probably have done the coursework poorly using perhaps a mobile phone and USB lead. The SLR gave me high quality images whilst the SD Card provided me with portable high capacity storage.
- 7. Positives and Negatives Positives: Negatives: •SD Card allowed me to •Occasionally difficult to take extra shots, improving implement ideas exactly in the quality of my final programmes such as image. Adobe Photoshop. •USB allowed me to save •Using the free version of my work and work on it in SurveyMonkey meant that alternate places. I had to produce graphs •SlideShare allowed me to for my results myself, upload PowerPoint rather than have the Presentations, such as this, website do it, which was to my blog. very time consuming.