What have you learnt about technologies

from the process of constructing this product?

Technology programs that I have used

Premiere ProWordpressFireworksPreziSlideshareSlideboomFlickrPadletThinglink

I have used this software before so this was an advantage to me because I could use it straight away to edit one of my videos that I needed to upload to my blog.

When I first started using this software it was very complicated because of all of the editing techniques that you can use and also in the program there is two screens and I wasn’t too sure which one to use. Once I got the hang of it I really liked using this program.

I liked using this software because it was really easy to upload the clips that you needed to edit and also I could add music to make my video more interesting. When finishing my video it was very simple to upload to my blog and I didn’t have a problem with doing it.

Wordpress is the main software that I have used for the duration of my media work. This program allows me to upload my work and research on to my blog. At first I found this software quite complicated to use because it was a new software that I have never seen before. I wasn’t sure where to put the links and other words and symbols that you needed to use to make sure that my work was uploaded correctly. As I used quite a few different software for my coursework it took me a while to get used to the different ways of uploading my work. Slowly wordpress became very easy for me to use as I was using it very regularly.

I like the way you can edit and upload all your work on the one page because then you can keep track of what else you need to do. Also I like the way you can preview your work after uploading it to your blog. You can see how your work has been uploading and it looks very professional.

Overall uploading new work on to my blog was fairly simple because all you needed to do was find the button ‘New post’ and this button is highlighted in grey and also the ‘Update new post’ was highlighted in blue so this was very useful for me as it caught my attention.

I really like the way you can choose your own layout so your blog can be different to everyone’s and also it makes your blog look very neat. It is very easy to find a professional layout and this is then very easy for the reader of your blog because it is set out very simple but it still looks professional.

I had never used this software before so when I was starting to learn how to it was quite complicated because there were so many different things to do, but once I got the hang of it, it was easy to use and I really enjoyed using it. I used this software for the main production of my magazine.

This made it easy for me because I had some practice using it in the first task I did for media, this software was very easy to import your images on and also I found when cropping my images it was very easy as well.

When putting font on my magazine you could then make it different fonts, sizes and use different colours and also you could put different effects on the text so it made my text jump out of the page which I thought was very effective. Once using this software over and over again this made it easy to understand.

Prezi is a new software that I had never heard or used before. I really liked this software and was my favourite software I used throughout my work as it was very easy to use and it gave you lots of different options that you could choose from for your layouts which I thought was very effective because if you used prezi more than once they could all look different because of all the layouts you could choose from.

When finishing your work on prezi it looks very professional and organised which I really liked because it looked very effective, also it was very easy to upload on to my blog which was very handy as it only took me a few minutes to do this.

Also when writing information on prezi you can increase or decrease you writing to fit the box which I really liked and also you could upload different pictures which was very easy to do as well. Prezi was a very simple software to use.

These software’s are some of my favourites to use as they are very easy, quick and simple to understand because you can do all your work on to a power point presentation before you upload it on to these types of software. However, using power point you can edit your font size or the type of your font but slideshare and slideboom do not enable you to do this which is a bit of a negative, but they make your work look very professional which is a very big positive because it is done for you when you have made your presentation.

Uploading the presentations to my blog was very simple because all you had to do was copy the embed code into wordpress and then click upload work and then it would be put on to your blog straight away.

Flickr is a very good software to use if you want to share pictures and therefore I used this for my mood board as I use more than 20 pictures, it was very easy to upload pictures on to and then add comments to your pictures.

The box for you comments was only a certain size and I didn’t really like this because it felt like you could only write a certain amount so I didn’t use the comment boxes for this reason.

I had never used flickr before and at the start it seemed to be quite hard to use but then it got easier and it’s a very effective program to use if you want to upload lots of pictures.

Padlet was a new software that I hadn't come across before, but this was a simple software to use as all you needed to do was double click and then you could insert text or an image and this helped me a lot because I could put as many images as I needed to do on the padlets I did. Also it was very useful because it saved your work for you automatically which was also very convenient for me.

One thing I couldn’t work out was how to change the font colours and size so all my work had the same font which was a bit frustrating but I still liked using this software because it was different.

This was also very easy to upload to my blog because all I did was copy and paste the embed code on to my blog and it uploaded it, even though it is quite slow to upload on my blog it does eventually work and makes my work look professional and effective which I am really pleased with.

Thinglink was a new software that I found out about whilst doing my course work, this software is very simple and very useful to use. I used this software to annotate my designs online this was a very easy and sufficient way to annotate my designs.

Also by annotating my designs online it made my work look very professional and neat and it was also very clear to read.

This software was very easy to understand which was very helpful because I didn’t get confused and also it was reasonable easy to upload my designs on to my blog. Even though I had to do them all separately it wasn’t to complicated.