What Have I Learnt About Technologies?

Apple Mac Computers

• I had to learn how to screenshot because it turned out to be essential for my coursework

• I had never used an Apple computer before starting this project so I had to learn how to use everything from scratch – I did not even know how to turn it on in the first lesson

Photoshop

• I did Photography at GCSE so I was fairly confident with using Photoshop before I started constructing the magazine, but there were still some new things that I had to learn, which I used YouTube tutorials for

InDesign

• I had never used InDesign before starting this project

• I found it very confusing to start off, but after getting help from the teacher and using YouTube tutorials, I soon figured out how it worked

• There are still a lot of things about InDesign that I still do not know how to use

Wordpress

• This is what I used for my blog

• I had never used it before but found it surprisingly easy to use

• It is easy to navigate around and laid-out simply

Powerpoint

• I used Powerpoint for lots of my evaluation answers

• The college Apple Macs have an updated version to the version that I used at home and at GCSE so it was slightly new to me, but it was simple to work out

Google Drive

• I had never used Google Drive before

• At first I found it incredibly confusing, but after getting help from teachers and friends I found out it was actually quite simple

• For days when I needed to do coursework but Powerpoint was not available, I used Google Slides, which was also new to me, but was surprisingly similar to Powerpoint so it didn’t take too long for me to figure out how to use it

Camera

• I used my own camera to take all the photos I used in my preliminary task and the final music magazine, so I knew the basics of how to use it from GCSE, but I also had to use the video setting for my Question 4 interviews, which I did not even know it had

• I did not use the college studio for my photoshoot, so I did not learn anything about photo studios

SlideShare

• I used SlideShare to embed my Powerpoints into my blog

• I had never used it before but it seemed fairly simple and I did not need to ask for any help

• Before using SlideShare I did not even know that Powerpoints could be embedded into blogs

SurveyMonkey

• I used SureyMonkey to make the questionnaires I used for my research on both the preliminary task and the final music magazine

• I had never used SurveyMonkey before but it was very simple

• The only thing I did not like about SurveyMonkey was that you have to pay to use more than 10 questions per survey, which impacted my research as I could not gather lots of data in one go

Dafont

• I used the website Dafont to download the fonts that I used in my music magazine

• Before starting this project, I did not know that fonts could be downloaded on the internet and used on Photoshop so I learnt a lot about that