My work on MYP Computer Technology – Grade 8

The strengths of my Digital Portfolio are that it is attention-grabbing (the background, black, goes well with all the images and I chose that color for exactly that) and by already having all the content needed it made it easier for me to make it look simple and include all the information needed. The weekness's were that I hadn't included the specific details as to how I had edited the images that I had edited (The Photoshops and the IB Leaner Posters) because I personally felt that with all the other projects due and only 6 lessons that the amount I had done may not get me a perfect grade but it was to my personal extent. Throughout the entire year I believe that I was very distracted and talked too much but I was able to get a majority or all of my work done in the end (Maybe not to the standards I could have but my work was average) but not all of it was done in time. I think that in order for me to have a better year I should talk less. I mainly researched for my Cost Of Living projects since I needed to find prices and the exchange rates for 2 currencies in the time. I  mostly designed, planned and created for the rest of the tasks in different aspects of every single one of my tasks. For my HTML and Dreamweaver I had to mentally design and plan what I imagined them to look like and then finally bring it to life. For my Photoshop projects I had to first find out how to edit the photos with the programme, which was part of my designing and planning, before I finally created them. The IB Learner Posters were a lot easier because my partner and I were very familiar with Picnik before we even started the project. Making the Digital Portfolio was very easy because I already knew how to use Dreamweaver from an earlier project which made it even easier for me to make my portfolio. I was happy after completing the Design Cycle because after finishing one thing it allowed me to move on to another and in the end I was gung-ho about the ending result. I felt too many feelings throughout my entire MYP Grade 8 Technology course experience for me to write down but I was mostly either happy or stressed from completing something or from being late with a project.

IB Learner Profile Poster - Reflection

For 8 of the 10 posters, me and my partner used an online programme named Picnik and used they different formats it offered. For the other 2 we used Potoshop to create the changes. There were no particular design stages but our plan was to make the posters as simple as possible while also making them memorable and interesting at the same time by making the edits look unique and with no particular, set design in mind for each. This plan helped us extremely and the final results are, in my eye, extremely unique. If I were to do this project again I probably wouldn't change anything because I am proud of the final result. What I would tell any future students that were to do this project themselves is that they shouldn't make the posters to complicated and they should just keep it simple.

Exploring Photoshop

I found that using photoshop to edit these pictures was very easy because nothing had to be done manually. I feel that I successfully edited every picture except the couple image because I did not know how to change the next so what is currently written has nothing to do with the background. My easiest image to edit were the flowers because they only required filtering. I don't think that I will need to use photoshop in the production of my Digital Poftfolio because I have no further images to edit except, maybe, my banner and that only requires 'Free Transform' and adding text. The only way I can relate Photoshop to Dreamweaver is by looking at the company that created both applications. They also both allow someone to create something from scratch or if there is already and image that comes to mind someone can easily change it or turn it into something much bigger and better with Dreamweaver.