Evaluation Question 6

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


Throughout the creation of my magazine the technologies i have used are:


-Photoshop
-Survey Monkey
-Flickr
-Blogger
-Powerpoint


Photoshop

Photoshop was the main technology i used, i used it through the schools network. Photoshop is great for designing everything, however there are advantages and disadvantages.


Advantages
- Photoshop is the best image editor on the market today.
- Photoshop can do the graphics and the text all in one program.
- With layers you can change the size of each element independently.
- Although its hard to use once you master it, almost anything is possible.
- Allows you to become a publisher


Disadvantes
- Photoshop does not have a dictionary.
- Photoshop can't make vector images.
- Difficult to learn and get used to.
- Most things in the media are edited through photoshop and this makes everything fake.


Overall i have learnt alot about photoshop in my media lessons and after making this magazine i am confident i can go go on and design anything on photoshop.


Survey Monkey

Advantages
-You can create surveys with as many questions you like.
-The ordering of choices within a question can introduce an unintended bias. This service enables you to randomise answer choices to eliminate order bias.
- Helps you find patterns in your results.
- You can let others view the results without giving them access to your Survey Monkey account.
- All of the data can be downloaded to your computer for further analysis. The results can be exported into Excel, which you can use to create graphs.
- All of your questions and answers will remain private


Disadvantages
- Only as good as your answers
- Some people have problems with working it


Flickr

Advantages
-The basic account is free of charge.
-Cool social website
-Lots of websites support Flickr
-Lots of cool features, geotagging etc.
-Greets you in different languages then explains them, this helps you to learn greetings in loads of languages.


Disadvantages
-You are limited to only 100 megabytes a month for a free account.
-Videos are only allowed for the paying members.
-Subject to being taken down for “questionable content”.


Blogger

Advantages
- Blogger is free
- You can publish instantly
- Your writing skills will improve
- It is quick and simple to design your blog and to upload.
-Updating your blog can sometimes help people and can educate them


Disadvantages
- Because its free if it went down there would be no control over it.




Powerpoint

Advantages
- Easy to input images
- Template designs are built in for you to choose from which makes the process quicker
- Can easily add media and recordings etc.
- More enjoyable then producing a boring word document
- Slides make presentations consistent and less boring


Disadvantages
- Animations and backgrounds on powerpoint are distracting, this can distract the audience from the important things in the slide
- When a powerpoint document has alot of pages the file size can become ridiculously large
- Powerpoint is complicated
- Takes a long time to create a decent powerpoint