What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Here is a screengrab of my contents page in Photoshop. This screengrab is just to display the tools surrounding the main canvas. This includes the box of tools, the layer panel and the history panel. Before this project I had only used photoshop a couple of times and only to do very specific tasks. Now I have learnt to use all these things to an extent and have found each of them helpful in different ways. Being able to put work on a programme like this instead of having to do it in the traditional way saves a lot of time because you can do and edit things immediately and if you want to get rid of something you only have to delete it, not have to start again or spend a long time changing it. Here is another screengrab of my contents page in Photoshop. At the time this was taken I was editing some text. Whilst this is a fairly simple thing to do I learnt to put different text on different layers, which is displayed in the 'Layers' box to the right. I found this useful because it meant I could change the positions of different sections of text without having to change all of it. Here is an example of being able to change my work immediately, if this was a paper copy it would be much more difficult to edit this work. However a disadvantage of this could be that it becomes harder to put things wherever you want them to go, whereas if this was paper I could put any writing etc anywhere.


Here is the third screengrab of my contents page. In this one I was using the Blending tools to edit the drop shadow of the image shown behind the box. From using this tool I learnt you can change the 'look' of a photograph just by changing the shadow or glow. If I had made this in a traditional way then giving the pictures a drop shadow would have been much more difficult and probably looked very artificial.


Here is the logo from the website I used to create my graphs to present my audience research. I had never used this website before and found this it very useful and easy to use. This website is good to use because it is a quick way to make graphs and mistakes can be easily sorted out. However you can't do everything on this website that you can do by hand, such as deciding the scales on the vertical axis.
This is the logo from the website 'Flickr' which I used to annotate certain pictures and pieces of my work. I again had never used this website and after some brief instruction I found this website very simple and I liked the idea of being able to present annotation in a different way. A good thing about this website is that it enables a way to present data without it having to be a block text, although it is harder to fit all the information onto the small pictures.






Here is the logo of the 'Blogger' website. This is the site I have been using to blog my work. I have never used this website before or even made a blog so I was very new to this, however I found the website very helpful and easy to use. This way of presenting work is good because it keeps it all in one place and enables the use of websites like Flickr. However when using a website like this you do do loose out on things like writing it all in an essay format, which would probably enabling you to go into more detail about things.

Overall I prefer presenting my work in the 'Web 2.0' format because I think the work looks much more interesting. Not only this, but as mentioned before, it enables me to use websites like Flickr and insert things like pictures and videos. I think I will use some of these 'Web 2.0' things in my other lessons because in some subjects I have to make presentations and I am now able to Photoshop images and even put them in Flickr.