The Art Of Gaming

 Over the weeks I have read welcoming comments on my blog and it made this year just a little bit less stressful. I love looking at my blog every other day and seeing new comments appear especially from the people who I haven't talked to at all last year. If we do end up going back to college next semester I have a feeling the atmosphere will be warmer than before.  I think the comments on my project are the most useful because then I write notes on the important things people have mentioned. Things such as storylines for my game, the camera angles, the levels etc. I like the introduction blog comments as well because people know a little bit more about me and I remember a lot of things about people when I read their introduction posts which is handy! The feedback comments that I'm writing on other students blogs are truthful and curious. I love seeing other peoples work because it makes me more motivated to perfect my own. Seeing the games being made last week kind of made me...

These past couple of weeks I have gotten a lot of feedback from my lecturers. I've written down notes on what I should improve on in terms of my work and I even went as far as writing down feedback that has been said to other groups so I could improve on it myself too. I didn't really pay much attention to how my lecturers were giving me feedback before I read that growth mindset article, I've been starting to notice how they provide me with constructive criticism yet they also compliment aspects of my work which I find extremely helpful.  I read an article on "Preschoolers and Praise: What kinds of messages Help Kids Grow?" and here are my thoughts on it. Process praise can be so beneficial to kids if you use it the correct way. I feel like a growth mindset can be established from it especially when primary and secondary school students are given harder tasks to solve. I had a constant fixed mindset in primary school as I wasn't born in Ireland so during my ...

 Feedback was something I always feared, In school I would try to avoid it as much as possible because I knew in my head that I did an awful job. Exams weren't really my strong suit as I found them incredibly difficult, my focus was constantly on the time which didn't help at all. As I got older I realised that in order for me to improve at certain things, I needed feedback so I began to ask for it. Feedback doesn't have to involve school, it can be feedback on your personal relationship whether it's family or a significant other. Using your feedback wisely can help fix things in your life you didn't know needed fixing and it can also be tremendously useful!   I decided to read articles that I felt were relevant to me and "why rejection hurts so much" was one of them. Here is the link if you want to read it yourself! I have an extreme phobia of rejection, even more so when it's to do with personal matters. My thoughts elapse at an exceedingly alarming...