Multimedia Development

Analysis! This week's reading task was different from last week's, I misread the task for the reading project last week so I did it right this week. I actually really enjoyed this week's reading because I learned so many new things such as the causes of addictive game play, what comes with it, causes,  I always knew that games affected people but I had no idea to what aspect it could do so, I didn't know that people's mental health can be affected by games. I learned about the game genres that cause the most problems which are: -First-person shooter (makes the player anxious and paranoid) -Action adventure (I was really surprised to see this one so I am not even sure as to why or how this can cause problems) -Role-playing (player can get too into the game and be distracted by real life) -Casino games (causes financial difficulties and relationship problems) The second and third paper I analysed were similar to the first but with the last paper by Nuyens, F.M., Kuss,...

Feedback Strategies! Last week we discussed the importance of receiving feedback, but we did not talk about how to give that feedback. Well this week we will be talking about exactly that! Feedback Giving feedback is the fundamentals of growth, the way you phrase things and the wording you use are so important. As ”feedback” can be so easily taken as negative criticism and on the contrary, positive feedback can be taken as praise, and that could get to the individuals heads as they would think their work is perfect. So as anything there is a balance needed, the right amount of praise with things to improve on. Different Strategies Our lecturer provided us with a list of articles to analyse and I have chosen two that I see as impact full.  The first of them being " The Difference Between Feedback And Praise " by Anya Kamenetz. Anya discusses the negatives of phrases such as ”good job” or ”good girl”, as this doesn't really allow the children to develop and grow. It gives t...