BY BRIGIT GUNTON

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?

Software I have used...

Photoshop (CS3) (6)Microsoft WordMicrosoft

powerpointSlide sharewww.blogger.comInternet Explorer Blackboard

Hardware I have used...

Computer CameraPhone (video)Card ReaderUSB stick

What technology I used in the research...

Microsoft WordMicrosoft Powerpointwww.slideshare.netComputerwww.blogger.comInternet ExplorerPhone (video)Card ReaderUSB stickBlackboard

What technology I used in the Planning...

Microsoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointwww.blogger.comInternet ExplorerComputer USB stick

What technology I used in the production...

Photoshop (CS3) + (6)Microsoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointSlide Share

What I learnt...

I think the key programmes that I learnt to use are blogger.com and Photoshop as most of the others I have used before.

I have learnt many things on Photoshop, such as how to use layers, rasterizing, the polygonal lasso, how to add a drop shadow and many other things that I think will come into use in later life.

On blogger I have learnt to add videos and photos, change the template, add a post, add a comment, view my stats and much more.

For example to the right you can see a section of my blog, I have changed the template so that all my posts are in order of labels which makes it easy to find things, this is one thing I have learnt to do on blogger.

Technology... (macro)

Over the course of the this project I learnt many things about technology as a whole, such as not to always rely on it.

I couldn’t have completed my project without the use of technology, it was a vital part of the completion of this project, from my blog to a computer.

Although there are some pieces of technology I could have completed the project with out. Such as a phone that I took a video on for research, I could have used something else such as hand writing or a webcam. I also could have used a different programme than Photoshop to create my magazine in, such as GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). There are many other replacement programmes I could have used as well such as Safari or Firefox instead of internet explorer, and many other substitute programmes.

There are also pieces of technology I couldn’t have done without such as, the computer and the internet.

Negatives and positives of using technology...

Positives The positives of using technology is that everything

is so quick and accessible, so you can have a word document and an internet page open together for research that will take 15 minutes, where as to research using books and hand writing would take a considerably longer time.

There are also things such as the blog where anyone can look, comment and give feedback, meaning it is easier to share work and gain responses.

Also Blackboard brings an all new positive to using technology for work as it means the teachers can share information such as slide shows from the lessons all the time, and it provides a quick way of communicating with teachers whilst not there.

Negatives and positives of using technology...

Negatives

Although there are negatives such as if anything were to go wrong with a piece of equipment you could risk loosing all your work, e.g. A memory stick goes corrupt and all saved work wipes.

Doing research over the internet may give you unreliable knowledge from sources such as Wikipedia, you can’t trust it, where as if you carried out the research first hand then you can rely on it more.