Thoughts on Assignments

I think this method of teaching could be really beneficial and interesting. It is definitely something new to me and I think that it's going to be more convenient than conventional ways as it is more personalized and easy to see your progress. The extra credit is definitely interesting as it slowed you to miss some deadlines while still getting the grade you want. It also gives you the option of getting extra credits anytime so you can prioritize other modules when they are getting demanding will getting the work done.

I think I will try all the extra credit take at least once just to get a feel for them and see which I like and which I don't. At first glance the Wikipedia appears interesting as you are going to be reading a lot of information you are bound to find something interesting.

(Image taken from quora on an article about studying)

Thoughts about Growth Mindset

I've never heard of Carol Dweck before this exercise but i have heard of the growth mindset in a way.When i was playing GAA my manager would always talk about this, if you can't do something practise it and you'll get better and think that's something i can improve on rather than that's something i'm bad at. I think it is a very useful way of looking at things as you are more likely to really grind out a task that's hard rather than attempting it and giving up really easily which is a great trait to have in life as it will help you at every aspect of your life. 

At the same time I also think sometime this mindset can be a little anti productive. In certain situations i think no matter how hard you try to keep positive and try work out the problem it can be disheartening when you are trying to find a solution for ages and ages and can't seem to find anything. This is definitely true for higher level 6th year maths in my case, I would spend so long looking through books, examples from the board and videos online to no avail and it just made me hate going into maths which i generally didn't mind for the rest of the time during school.

When I dropped to ordinary level I still would have the odd problem but i feel like the fact i could get the majority of the stuff right helped me with the problems i'd struggle with whereas when i was higher level i thought it was so much harder as no matter how many questions you got right before you could get a question that you wouldn't be able to solve no matter how hard you tried.

Overall i think it is a good mind set to get into but i think there is a limit to what you can achieve through perseverance and you need to work on over time. 

(Good image about Growth Mindset taken from Pintrest)

Introduction to Me

I'm going to talk about my hobbies and some sports that I've taken part in over my life. I've always liked football and I always played it as I kid i used to play for Hartstown and Huntstown United. We were never really that good but that made it better in my opinion because there was never too much expectations put on us so you could just go out and have some fun with your mates.

For at least 2 seasons we would lose nearly every game by 5 goals minimum, these matches were my favourite as you could kinda do what ever you wanted and they can't give out to you if it goes wrong. Eventually we got relegated enough that we were the good team and matches became really easy that during really cold days subs would come onto the pitch and take shots on the keeper because it was that rare the other team would attack he'd be freezing.

When i started secondary school i made some new friends who played for Peregrines GAA club so I joined there too. I was playing football and GAA for 1st and 2nd year. I had training 4 times a week and a match on both Saturday and Sunday. I don't have a clue how I managed to do any homework because now a days if I have a full day in college I do be tired and need at least an hour break before I start doing any assignments.

I had to stop one of them in 3rd year with the junior cert and i picked to keep playing gaelic, but this didn't really end up too good as we were a good team but never quiet good enough and we'd always get close but never win anything, we came runners up in the league at least 3 times, lost in the semi-final of the feile and then lost in the final of 2 championships.

I gave up gaelic at the end of secondary school and stopped doing sport which i really regret now as I liked keeping fit, but i don't want to go to a random team now whereas if i would have stayed with Peregrines id be settled in grand and all.

(This is the Peregrines Stand

I got this picture on Wiki Media)

( This is a picture of the Hartstown Huntstown Crest

I got this picture from WikiPedia)

Work Shop 01

In our lecture we went through the exercise for workshop 1, The main part of the workshop was going through the traffic lights, despite traffic lights being fairly self explanatory it was surprising difficult to describe how they work.

Last year in introduction to creative digital media we done a similar exercise where we were asked to give a list of commands to a robot on how to make a cup of tea and just like this one there is a lot of instructions you don't think of as they seem obvious. This exercise helps understand just how difficult it can be to get an idea across to really help people imagine it if you can't even describe it properly.

The workshop is really useful as it highlights something really important in a very simple way. Its kind of like when some one asks you to describe what a word is, without using the word in a way because at first you think its obvious but when you start to do it you realize that it is actually a lot harder than you originally thought it would be.

This workshop made me realize that I definitely struggle with explaining myself at times. You know what you want to say but getting it out can be a lot harder than you think. I also underestimated how hard it is to write about exercises like this as I originally thought 300 words would be just be describing the process and maybe a little bit about how you found it and previous experiences with such situations but when i typed that it was only around 120 words.

I feel like the exercise would have been better if we done it all in the lecture, As we were talking about it in groups first it seemed like everyone was struggling but then once Shaun talked about it for a few minutes it was a lot easier, so i feel like if we went through the whole thing it would have been easier to write about.

                                                       ( Photo is taken from Wiki media)

Favorite Game (as of now)

                                                                                   

This image is from Spiderman for the PS4

This is a link to flicker where I got the image.

Spiderman is my favorite game at the minute as it has really good graphics and an interesting storyline.

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