The document discusses digital technology used for coursework. It lists examples of hardware used like iMacs, cameras, and phones. Software applications are also listed, including FCP, iTunes, Pages, and online technologies like Pixlr, Prezi, Blogger, and YouTube. Students are asked to create a handout detailing the digital technologies they used for their AS and A2 coursework, including advantages and disadvantages of the hardware, software, and online tools.

1. DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGY

2. ◦ I’m still not very well so I won’t be in your lesson tomorrow morning, and I’m emailing you now so that you can make plans
accordingly. Believe me, I’d much rather be with you in school.
◦ Tomorrow you would have done your presentations and handed in your essays, and then I would have set you some work for
homework.
◦ These are your tasks:
◦ · Hand in your essays to my desk in the English office.
◦ · Digital technology (our next topic) refers to hardware, software and online technology, so the cameras, the computers, the
packages you used and the programs online that you have worked with. It is worth considering how all this inter-links for the exam.
◦ · Using specific examples from your coursework, create a hand-out (images and bullet points are fine) to cover all the digital
technologies you used across AS and A2, such as:
◦ Hardware: (looks a long list but it’s just examples!)
◦ · iMac OSX
◦ · Panasonic HCV500, SDR H40, SDRS15
◦ · Canon EOS 1100D
◦ · Nikon Coolpix S3100
◦ · Phone/iPod/Pad/own laptop/own camera/corder
◦ Software:
◦ · FCP
◦ · iTunes
◦ · Pages

3. HARDWARE I’VE USED
◦ IMac
◦Canon EOS
◦Iphone5
◦Windows Asus

4. SOFTWARE I’VE USED
◦ The programs and other operating information used by a computer
◦ iTunes
◦ Pages
◦ Word
◦ Serif applications

5. ONLINE TECHNOLOGY
◦ · Pixlr
◦ · Prezi
◦ · Blogger
◦ · Slideshare
◦ · Internet
◦ · Facebook
◦ · YouTube

6. ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES
◦ Photos taken for my magazine on the
canon EUS were very clear and professional
looking
◦ Being able to use blogger had enabled me
to express my creativity and share ideas
and designs for all aspects of my
coursework
◦ Pixlr has every editorial aspect available
such as enhancing the contrast/saturation.
It is very easy to use, helps develop editing
skills
◦ Prezi is a form of presentation that is more
attractive and exciting.
◦ You Tube has helped by giving me
directions for example how to use Pixlr or
how to upload a video onto blogger.
• Have to keep to one iMac therefore if my
iMac wasn’t free then I couldn’t use it to work
on
• iPhone quality did not match up to the video
camera therefore some footage is obvious
that it was filmed on two different pieces of
hardware.
• My laptop that I used took a while to load
certain things of Pixlr and blogger therefore it
was more time consuming
• When researching magazine and film ideas
online some of the school websites were
blocked.