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                               I used simitator to makes this fake twitter tweet 

         I used  Quozio  to make this Mantra I chose this mantra by Kobe because it has many meanings and one of them is that everyone should have a competitive  spirit even if they are not an athlete. And people should always  try and be the best version of themselves.

                                                                             I used  Quozio  to make this quote

  In this week’s reading task, I learned about Annotated Bibliography, and I did some research on my topic “Gaming effects on mental and physical health” by finding relevant articles that would help me help me in talking about my topic in depth. Image source: Information                                                                                              Annotated Bibliography Is a list of books or other works, it contains descriptive and evaluated comments about the sources. Essentially it is used to provide an overview of a topic and can help with comparing articles to see if they have the same information or agree or disagree on some things.   Doing research on my topic was kind of easy there was a lot of articles to choose from. I picked quite a few and I decided to read the ones with most relevancy to the topic. Using the active reading technique helped a lot in picking the articles and picking out relevant information. I also plan on making my matrix more organized.

 For this weeks extra credit task I decided to do a HEART challenge about daydreaming.                                                                   Image Source: Daydreaming                                                         Article: Mind Wandering  One thing the article confirmed or me that I knew already was that day dreaming is a natural part of a creative  process. In this article I learned that day dreaming is not necessarily a bad thing, the article suggest that it is a sign that someone is smart and creative.     One new thing I learned from the article that I did not know before was that people who daydream from time to time have more efficient brain systems and brain  capacity. After reading this article I’m curios to explore more about daydreaming and its benefits. I intend to act on my curiosity by  looking for more articles like this and by watching videos that explain daydreaming in more depth.

                                                                  Image Source: Tech For my blog I decided to give it a design to make it look better, I chose a  theme from blogger that I thought would fit me best and I added an image that I made as a background.

  Image by me For this week’s unity task, I have learned how to customize how unity renders sprites, the physics system and how to make ruby collide with the world. One thing I enjoyed from the tutorials was making ruby collide with the world, I thought it would be hard to do it since there was a lot of elements involved. But with a few errors I was finally able to make ruby collide with the world. A difficulty I faced was that when ruby went up the world she disappeared.  I thought that I missed a step, so I read through the steps again and didn’t see anything I missed. Reading through the steps I think I would have to change the graphic settings to try and fix the problem. I look forward to fixing the disappearing issue and looking forward to   start the next tutorials for Ruby’s Adventure.

 One thing that the video confirmed for that I  already knew to be true was that your brain grows when "you get a question wrong or when you struggle". Image source:  Dartmouth  Link to video: Sal Khan interviews Carol Dweck One thing that I learned that I  didn't  know before  was  that if kids are praised for a certain topic they don't want a challenge afterwards and they don't like to work hard on something. One new thing that I'm curious to explore is more of Dweck's research in relation to growth mindset in school. I plan on doing it by looking up her research on the internet.

                                                         I used Quozio to make this quote

  For this semester I chose to do Ruby’s adventure, by completing the tutorial I have learned more about variables, functions and learned some things like tile sets. It was hard to understand some of the new concepts, but I had a good idea of what they     meant. I enjoyed starting the process of making the 2D game and I think future tutorials will gain my interest in making 2D games.                                                                                                          Image by me While doing the tutorial I found it difficult to understand some of the instructions but read over a couple of times and finally understood what it meant. I also found it difficult to follow one of the instructions because unity didn’t have one of the options, but I was able to find another solution from a helpful video on YouTube.

                                                                    Effects on Mental   and Psychical  Health  I chose this topic because mental health has been a serious topic over the past few years, and by writing a chapter in relation to the effects of mental and physical health because of gaming , people can take gaming addictions and the bad effects it brings more seriously. At first gaming can be seen as entertainment or a way to distress and to be more social online, but like a lot of good things gaming has its downside. For a long time, gaming has been seen to have harming effects on peoples physical and mental health. Some bad effects are unhealthy lifestyle choices, depression, isolation, and anxiety.                                                                           Image source: Healthy Gamer For my research I intend to use the matrix method as it it’s a good way to document the details of reading materials like its strengths and weaknesses and it helps to