The Weekly Developments

This week we had to give feedback on our annotated bibliography themes to our peers. I got some helpful feedback on my own from two people. Both agreed that I need to add more quotes in. I definitely agree too. I hadn't done that initially as I thought it was too long and that we weren't supposed to use quotes. However, I think they're fine to add in now to back up what I'm saying. Beyond that, I'm considering condensing one or two themes into one. I feel like some of them are very similar, particularly mental health and social skills. I'll be rereading them and I think I'll put them together anyway to see what it looks like and which I prefer.

I was really interested in this first tutorial for Unity this week as I had done things with text and image overlays for my game last semester. I did it at a basic level and didn't really understand the whys, just understanding what I was doing. This tutorial was the next level or so on from what I'd done but also explained the basics so I enjoyed it and didn't feel out of my depth.  I really liked customising everything - I hadn't done that last semester. The little touches like adding the character portrait were fun. I hadn't made a health bar but the fundamentals were there so again, I didn't feel out of depth but definitely felt like I was learning something . Though the tutorial was a little bit tedious, it wasn't too bad. (screenshot of my script for the Health Bar at the end of the first tutorial) Then I started on the second tutorial. My favourite part was adding dialogue, I found that so interesting and nothing like we'd done this semester or la...

I was running out of tech tasks this week, so I thought I'd give a quick tour of the bibliography Chrome Extension I've been using! It's called MyBib and you don't have to use the extension, you can just use the website, but I recommend the extension. You can choose your referencing still and can create a 'project' if you have several papers or reviews on the go. You can import previous bibliographies, you can download a reference list and you can share you project.  What I really like about it is when you add a citation, it actually tells you how credible it is. Though it should be taken with a pinch of salt, as this is the internet, I weeded out a few website articles through this tool.  You can sort your citations and search them if there are several. You have the option to copy an in-text citation or a bibliography entry. You can also go back and edit any citation if you misspelled something if you had to enter manually, for example.