Technology Tools

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Most of the technology tools shown I'm already pretty familiar with and have heard of them before but just haven't really used them much. The ones that are a little more new are blogging and graphics creation. I know about blogs but have never written one myself so it's an entirely new experience along with graphics creation so hopefully I'll enjoy both of those things while using them throughout the weeks.
I'm looking forward to using these tools more often though and think it'll be fun learning new things from them.

Assignments

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I think some of these are interesting new ways of doing assignments. With other assignments you would get reading material but wouldn't have to write anything about it so having to write a blog based off the reading you've to do is a good way to make sure people actually do the readings and learn things. Along with that, getting feedback off others so often is a great way to help improve on your writing and to bond with/get to know others.

Working on a project for several weeks is something I'm familiar with and isn't so new unlike the other parts of the assignment. Working on a project is a great way to show and put the skills you learn over the weeks to use. I think it's helpful working on a project and making something of your own, since you've something to work towards, you'll keep practicing and improving on your skills.

Other assignments didn't have extra credit tasks so this is completely new to me but I think it's really useful. Being able to make up for any work you missed is really handy since sometimes assignments might pile up and not everything can be done on time.

Introduction

About Me

Hey, I'm Amanda and this is a little bit about me. I'm 18, from Lithuania but lived in Ireland most my life, I chose CDM because I enjoyed things like photography and art as hobbies but I wanted to learn more about those things and work on them.

My favourite module from last semester would be the photography, as I said before, I liked photography as a hobby and taking pictures of random things I thought looked nice but actually using a proper camera and not my phone was really fun. I enjoyed learning how to use one and working in a studio.

My greatest accomplishment from last year would probably be getting through the year, even though I had to do repeats, I'm still proud I managed to pass everything.

My goals for this module would be to learn new skills, get the hang of game design and just overall, to do well in the module.

I don't really read that much so I don't really have a favourite book, I watch more TV shows and movies so a favourite would be a show called Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
I like most genres of music. Although I'm pretty late getting into this band, I've recently really gotten into Arctic Monkeys.

Some of the goals for the future are pretty basic like get my drivers license,move out,graduate,etc. I don't really have anything too specific I want to work towards just yet so I'm just going to see where things take me I guess.

I don't have any pets ): But I really want to get a dog(s) so I guess I could add that to my list of future goals.

Workshop 1

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The traffic light exercise was a very familiar concept as everyone has a fair idea of how a traffic lights work, but surprisingly it was a lot harder than expected. For the exercise, the tasks we were asked and were given to work with sounded really simple but I struggled a lot trying to put what I knew into words. Even though I knew how the traffic light worked, I assumed it couldn't be that easy and there was some more complex answer to it which made things a lot harder since I ended up over thinking it too much to come up with a proper answer.

Working in a group was fine, it was nice to get everyone else's input on the task given but it was also amusing seeing everyone else just as lost and confused. It was reassuring knowing I wasn't the only one who didn't really know how to word my thoughts well or draw out a flowchart for it.

The exercise just showed how even the most simplest of tasks can actually be really difficult which kind of has me worried for when we start looking at actual difficult tasks, I feel like I'll struggle even more trying to put things down on paper/text. Even now, I'm struggling to write out a reflection on what was done. Hopefully, that'll change though and it'll get easier to write these blogs as I get more used to them. It's an interesting concept though, I've never written a blog so it'll be nice to see how I get on with writing them.

Testing

This is a tester blog post.