CDM&Ms Blog of Mulit Medias

S ome thoughts on time management strategies; Is that the best management of your time is to build it around you and your work instead of just your work. This works for me and give me enough time to work as well as work on other projects and have some time to myself. I feel that I can apply this to this module but will reacquire some tinkering when working with web design and group projects. I've read-up om two articles about time management: The important habit of just starting by Jory Mackay Link  Here , And, Realistic study plans ByAmanda Collins Link  Here Time management; Not just about Schedules Project management tips Link  Here The first one is about time management and procrastination and how to make yourself be more productive. I can see this working in the long run and it was a good read but, I've been a procrastinator for a good bit and I've finally been getting out of it myself by telling myself, 'This is for you and you wanted this.' The sec...

G iven this day and age for college students or people how know enough about tech I'm familiar with all of the web tools well be using except Graphics Creation tools like Canvas or Cheezburger, also Padlet and Unity3D; but well be learning about that in week 2. It's not technology that disrupting our jobs New York times.com Link  Here For the course websites, I'm extremely familiar with Moodle(I don't know why they changed it) and Google Docs. I didn't know well be getting our own wiki as this will come in handy down the line. Book marking the Wiki and the Calendar were a must now I'm ready to learn.

A fter reviewing what type of assignments well be having during this Multi Media course I can safely say that I'm looking forward to working in these core assignments. Two of these that stood out to me were Blog comments and Project Feedback. In other course modules we don't really work with Blogs or get moments to really give opinions on others people working in a controlled way and I can see this has having a huge boost in production value as we can give these in a quick and easy to access place(Here). Keep Calm And Do Your Assignments Kayla Charlton Link  Here T he Extra Credit assignments are also very enticing and also seem to give feedback to my fellow students. And given that these also contribute to our final grade; And give us knowledge that might benefit us in the long run I can Safely get behind this way of doing assignments

U pon watching and reading along with Carol Dweck, I can understand where she is coming from when talking about a 'Growth Mindset'. She speaks of it as a state of mind but also in the way she words it, it comes off as a localization problem. In a world where there are so many different distractions like social media, especially in younger kids as they see it as a social standing among themselves. She also states some research done into the electrical activity of the young kids when confronting a problem. This is were she loses me to be honest, selecting and categorizing students into groups whether they can solve a problem when first confronted by it, doesn't make sense; like what if the student gave it another go and then became on of the students with the growth mindset. Pre-selection shouldn't come first when deciding on who can solve a problem first. Excerpt from Carol Dwerck's TED talk "The Power of believing that you can improve" Link  Here W h...

F or this blog post I'll be "Talking" to you about myself and give some general background info on what my future post will be about and like. F irstly, My favorite class of the previous semester was Design Process and Practice as it was REALLY interesting and fun to take part in as it thought me how to create a plan and execute said plan in the creation of a project be it solo or in a group. It was run as a tight ship and made us pick up our pace and ' shit ' to kick-start our creative processes to do projects on a schedule. Solstice Festival Assignment Created By Me Year 1, Semester 2 H ere is an image of my previous work and I'm proud of it. We were tasked to create a poster for the Solstice festival and we could choose any genre of music we wanted so I chose rock as this influences some of my work and it was different as a large amount of people chose hip-hop or rap. N ext, It think my biggest accomplishment of the last semester was my Image Man...

A t the beginning of this workshop we were told of a scenario we had to work out: Intro with Traffic lights Created by Shaun Ferns Link  Here A 4-way junction with 4 sets of lights and people crossings, but there are no turning lights or buttons for the people crossings. A t first look this looked like a difficult question and we had to find out how the cars turn. I've never done a workshop like this before and I like how it was delivered, made us think of something we've seen loads of times before but never actually put some thought behind it. I  feel that, upon reflection of this, It felt kind of relaxing to change up the gears a little and have to think about something I wouldn't normally think about. I can also say that with confidence that this has thought me a lesson; No matter what solution I came up with there will always be another solution to the same problem. And I feel this will come in handy with this module, also I could apply this to my other module...

A game I will always remember be it for its action or its quaint way of telling story, It will always be Ratchet Gladiators. Ratchet Gladiators North American Cover Released October 2005 Link here I remember playing this, coming home from school and getting right into the action. Insomniac , The creators of the game, wanted to go for this direction. Pure action and less map exploring which the rest of the series is know for. In America it was called 'Deadlocked' , while in the EU it was called 'Gladiators', which made a lot more sense as you were a competitive Gladiator  not lock in a prison. But you could say that with the way they wrote the story. To make a story more interesting, they remover your main buddy Clank from the action giving him a supportive/ secondary character role. The also introduced a Mod System to the weapons to give the player a way to chain weapons and elemental stasis like poison or freezing mods to any weapon giving a different...

Test 1 of new Blog Test 2 pretty neat Test 3 now were cooking! Now we can Start.