Rachael Leddy Multimedia Development

Source In this week's lecture we had a talk from Lindsey Dowling, who works in the library at TUD Blachardstown, she talked to us about ways to utilize the materials available in the library and how we are able to book into the library, and how to take out books, or find books online, that we could use in our book we are making for this module. Lindsey also talked to us about plagiarism and what the right and wrong ways were to go about plagiarism. She told us about how there is two steps to the Harvard Referencing system, the system we use in our academic work, and that you always have to have citations and a reference list when using this reference method. We also were shown the Matrix Method for researching this week and were given a template to complete of our own for finding information and just having something where you can keep all of the important links and names that you can then use when referencing the work. When using the Matrix Method, we were asked to ask ourselves s...

Personal Screenshot From My Unity Hub This week in Unity I tried out making a 2D Game for the first time. I found it a bit difficult getting back in to Unity after the break over Christmas, and even harder trying to learn something new, but I eventually got it done. I found it a lot easier doing Unity while on call with other people because we were able to help each other if we had any difficulties. I had a lot of difficulties last year with Unity and didn't find myself enjoying it so I was a little apprehensive coming into this semester and having to use it again, but I found making a 2D game wasn't as hard as making the 3D one. I didn't find this weeks task too difficult, I was just making little small mistakes along the way, but they were all easily fixed. I hope coming into the next few weeks that I'm able to get back into the groove of Unity and find it easier each week. I will definitely keep doing Unity each week on call with some of my classmates because I felt ...