Technology Tools

Before I started this course, I wasn't really familiar with any technology tools until blogging. Now I see there are more technology tools I can use for this semester. A tool that interests me is Graphics Creation. Bookmarking and image editing are also tools I can use. It will be fun to create my own graphics and I look forward to it. There are also course websites that will help me learn to use different tools. Some of these websites are Class Wiki and Google Docs. Hopefully each website I use helps and allows me to learn new things.

Blogging is a technology tool.

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Assignments

I've been on blogger for the past week, doing work and getting to know how to use blogger more. Now week 2 is coming with new assignments coming. This is all very different than other courses as all the work is done here and we read lecture notes for assignments online.

Some upcoming assignments that I am looking forward to are the Unity3D work and Project work. The Unity3D work is practical based tutorials to allow me to practice the fundamentals of Unity3D and this is something I haven't worked on before so I am excited to see how this works and what I'll learn. I'll be working on a semester-long project and I'm always keen to see with what I can do for projects.

There are extra credit assignments that can help. I will definitely be doing these extra assignments as I'm happy to gain extra credits that can help me if I miss out on work or want to be sure to get the best possible grade. Some assignments that interest me are the Wikipedia Trails and Growth Mindset work. I will be looking into these when I can.

Lot More work to come.

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Learning Growth Mindset

                              

Before doing this blog, I had no idea who Carol Dweck is and what growth mindset is. After learning about her and growth mindset, I am fascinated from what I've seen. I've seen some videos called The Power of Believing You Can Improve, Make Challenge The New Comfort Zone and How To Help Every Child Fulfill Their Potential and these introduced me to Carol Dweck. After watching these videos, I like Carol's views on education and found myself agreeing with her and even questioning myself about how I learn. Mostly everybody would probably want easy work and be done with it quickly, but I feel Carol wants everybody to learn something new and get better after completing work. I like the idea that praising intelligence could cause people to stay as they and not get better while praising process would drive people to want more hard work to get better.

After watching those videos of Carol Dweck on growth mindset, I am really interested in learning more about growth mindset and want to test myself in future work to see if I want only easy work or tougher challenges that help me get better. 

                                                            Keep learning to do better
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Introduction of a ITB Year 2 Student

                  

                                           Introduction

My name is Ciaran Dowling and this is my introduction. I am 19 years old and I am currently in the second year of  BA Creative Digital Media (BN021) in the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown (ITB). I've recently started my second year with new courses for this year. Last year I had a number of different courses through the year and did a lot in each one. Some of these courses were Digital Photography, Web Development, Story telling & Narrative and Design Process & Practice. I successfully passed all my courses in the first year and didn't have to do any repeats in the summer. Story telling & Narrative was my favorite course as it was the one I was most interested as we did work such as analysis's on stories and movies plus in our final assignment we had to create an animation story which I really enjoyed. I felt very lucky that I passed all my courses last year as I felt I did much worse but somehow I prevailed. This year's courses look even more difficult but I'll just have keeping working and hopefully I'll do good.

About myself, some interests of mine are football, music, games and movies. Some of my favorite movies are Return of the King, The Dark Knight and Jaws. By doing Creative Digital Media, I hope to do something in films in the future as I have a passion for movies. I support Liverpool FC and watch them every week when they are on. Hopefully this is the year Liverpool actually win a trophy because we desperately need one. A hobby I do nearly everyday is going to the gym.

This is all part of my Multimedia Development Course this year. I hope to do well in this course and learn new skills that will help me in the future.

                                                       

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Workshop 01

     

                                         Workshop 1

The first questions given to us in our first lecture was very familiar as last year were asked the same questions around semester 2. I thought moodle was very helpful through the year as it had all the work we had to do on it and all the notes from lectures we needed. One thing I need to improve is starting work early and finish them early as last year I would leave the work late and felt pressure to finish them. When talking in groups, it was good to hear from other people on what they liked and hope is improved.

The traffic lights exercise was tricky I have to say. Even in a group, myself and others struggled as we just thought it was cars go when light turns green and stop when red but their was more to it. I couldn't really figure out the solution to this exercise. I felt like the exercise didn't really help me with anything as I didn't really learn or gain anything. Usually when in a group I feel you would eventually figure out the solution together but not this time. Hopefully I might get some feedback that explains what I missed in this traffic lights exercise.

It was an interesting start to this course. Most of the work that will be done is going to be on this blog which at first hearing I wasn't very excited about. But after spending some time on this blog, I feel a lot more confident in doing work here. For the first week, there is a good bit work to do on this blog but I'm sure after some time, myself and others will be fine with whatever work is given.

I'm looking forward to this course and hope to do well in the end.

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My Favorite Game

                                                      My favorite game is

                             

 

Rockstar's 2010 open world western game, Red Dead Redemption.

Red Dead Redemption

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