Evaluation- Technologies you have used

Overall, throughout my whole blog, I have used a range of technologies that have been really important and useful, in helping me not only record and edit my radio show, but also in creating the blog, where I have been able to put a lot of thought, ideas and detail, in all my research and planning and my evaluation. I have used a range of software and hardware throughout all elements of my AS coursework, such as Blogger, Adobe Audition, Soundcloud. These type of technologies has taught and achieved me many things that I did not even know about from the beginning.

By using Blogger, it is just like Microsoft Word Document but with extra tools which you would not expect.  This software, has meant that I can record each of my research and planning tasks and include images, sound clips and videos of various parts of the planning process. This has also given my content structure to follow with different posts which makes my blog look neat, even with changing the background. 

Another software called Soundcloud was also really useful, as I was able to upload all of my audio files but first, I had to convert it to MP3 and upload it to Soundcloud as blogger would not accept any other audio files from Soundcloud. With this, I could upload the majority of my radio station and the edited versions, however, you had to go to the html page and paste the link in, so the clips can appear in the blog.

Before, planning my radio station, I had to record local news from local stations. By doing this, I used a software called Tunein Radio. This software was only available for mobile phones, accessing from the app store or google play store.  The Tunein Radio app was helpful, as it enabled me to record extracts from radio shows so that I could carefully re-listen to any stations and pausing it at certain points and analysis the news values and 5W's. However, the disadvantage with using the app was that you had to pay for it, however, it was useful to get as it required the facilities you needed. 

After all this, while recording my radio preliminary task and my final radio show, I had to use a complex software called Adobe Audition. This software allowed me to record my voices for my radio, edit the voices to make it more realistic, add music to the voices, mixing the voices, and adding effects to my advertisements and news stories such as voxpops and soundbites.