by Wang Jia'ao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326 en-us 2015-03-02 10:29:48 UTC 2023-06-27 03:33:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Q6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51641692 2015-03-02 10:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51641692 Slide Share is a programme which you can create Power Point online and put the related links on blogs for people to see it. I uploaded my power points and coursework on Slide Share first then put the links on my blog for my exam. I felt it’s very easy to set up and nothing complicated here. I’m very pleased to use it show my progress to teacher and examiner but I don’t think it’s good to upload something with a specific font because sometimes it will be changed. wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51641868 2015-03-02 10:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51641868 wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51642219 2015-03-02 10:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51642219 For me, Blogger is a programme that can upload my course work on for teachers and examiners to mark it. It’s very easy to use, you can upload lots of things—--texts, images, Power Points, you can also linked a website with an underneath. You can put whatever you want to show what skills you are learnt. I create “Pages” and I found out it can make you blogs have a clear method, make teachers mark you work easily. I’m quite happy to use that and it can also bring me fun and interest when I do my media work. wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51642307 2015-03-02 10:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51642307 wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51642628 2015-03-02 10:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51642628 Photoshop is a useful editing software. When I used it at the first time, I found it’s so hard—--not the software, but language problems. I consulted my teacher and classmates, they are very patient, taught me how to use it step by step. I downloaded a Photoshop on my McBook for practicing in my free time as well. I think the order of the layer is really important when you use it, or you will be struggled. “Magnetic Lasso Tool”, “Rectangle Tool” and “Line Tool” helped me a lot when I created my product. I used “Magnetic Lasso Tool” to cut the image out and used refine edge to make the edge of the image more natural. The use of “Rectangle Tool” and “Line Tool” that  you can see the great progress on No.1 Chart, which is on the content page. wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51649874 2015-03-02 12:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51649874     InDesign is a desktop publishing software which can be used to create works such as magazines, posters, newspapers and so on. It’s very tricky for me but I have to admit, it can make you layout more accurate. The tools are similar between InDesign and Photoshop, but in InDesign you can create columns and drop your texts in, it can improve your layout. Another helpful tool is called “text warp”, it can make your texts warp around your image automatically and make your product more professional. The problem I met is about the layer, the layer won’t create automatically and I'm careless sometimes; I put several things in one layer and I found out if you want to move one of them to the top layer, it’s really troublesome. wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51650591 2015-03-02 12:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51650591 wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51650825 2015-03-02 12:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51650825 I also used a Canon camera for shooting my image. It’s a single lens reflex camera. To be honest, I’m confused in how to use it when I've got it. I knew the basic usage of the camera after watched the tutorial on YouTube and I’m quite surprised with the high quality of the image when I upload photos onto the computer via a USB lead. During the shooting, lighting could be a big problem. I don’t know how to control the time of exposure at that time, so the images we shot are always dark, hence I asked my host for help, who can be the expert in using camera. We changed the focusing ring and zoom ring but it didn't work. Luckily, we found the answer on the Internet at last. wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51650920 2015-03-02 12:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51650920 wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51651274 2015-03-02 12:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51651274 wjiaao https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51651459 2015-03-02 12:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/wjiaao/wpa0mfvqh326/wish/51651459