Below is a video I have made including all the different forms of technology I have used throughout my coursework.For this video I used a site called Animoto, which takes your photo's and music and creates an exciting presentation video.
How did I use the technology and was it useful or not...
For all of our filming we used the Colleges Mini DV Sony Camera, we didn't have any problems when using the camera. However we had a lot of trouble uploading the footage onto the computers, but whether that was the fault of the camera or the computer I do not know.
When we edited our footage we used Final Cut Express, I personally found this program very difficult to use as there is a lot to it and because we wanted to use a lot of complex effects, we had to use the internet to find out how to create the effects. Besides this it did produce a high standard of footage which we were happy with.
To get our footage onto Blogger we had to upload it onto YouTube first, even though YouTube is an extremely easy site to use I did have quite a few problems when using it. It wouldn't upload our videos because of the format they were in, so I had to try several different formats and use different computers to get our videos to upload, which I feel wasted a lot of valuable lesson time for us. Another problem I came across was when the video uploaded the quality was seriously damaged and therefore I think it has really ruined the video. Although YouTube is useful as a Media 2.0 technology, I didn't get any feedback from it.
Another Media 2.0 technology I used was Facebook, which for me is incredibly easy to use as I use it everyday. It was great to use for feedback as I got a lot of feedback which was quite productive.
Adobe Photoshop for me is easy to use as I use it a lot at home and in other subjects, however I did struggle when using it on the Mac Desktops as the controls were different.
For this coursework I used a lot of presentation sites that were new to me, Prezi was one of these sites. At first I had difficulty using it but once I got used to the site I felt it was a really creative way of presenting my work.
Another presentation site I used was Slideshare, which was generally simple to use as it just allowed me to upload power points on my Blog. On the other hand I did have trouble uploading one of my power points which led me to use another site called 280 slides, which lets you create interesting slides as well as upload them to Blogger.
My Iphone came in handy when I wanted to take photo's of the band and digipacks I had analysed. The photo quality was really good and they uploaded really easily to my Blog.
Technology determinism is a theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.
I feel that the majority of technology I had used did not determine the outcome of my work, it in fact helped to improve my work and make it more interesting. However when using sites such as YouTube I had no control over the quality of video it would produce.
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