Ryan Nguyen's Blogs

  Storyboard 1: The Start of my Twitch Career      In this storyboard, I show you the thought process of why I started streaming on Twitch. I started streaming around 2020 when COVID-19 was starting to spread to the US. Junior year of high school, the whole school was shut down, and moved to remote learning at home. When this happened I had a lot of time on my hands since I wasn't able to go outside or socialize. I turned this upsetting time into a more beneficial time by streaming on Twitch.tv/ryanwin . This allowed me to socialize with my friends and others online in a more entertaining way. Storyboard 2: Basketball Isn't Always Fun.     In this storyboard, I tell you the typical story of how basketball was with my friends back in middle school. We would always be very excited to play during school, but when the time came to play, we wouldn't be having as much fun as we thought. It would start off fun and friendly until someone made an aggressive move. We...

This is my Streaming Services Smackdown where I compare two popular streaming platforms: Netflix and Crackle. I explain in my video why Netflix is the superior website offering streaming services from its seamless navigation and innovative features like offline viewing to its ability to deliver a more personalized and engaging user experience. My presentation video will show you how Netflix's attention to user convenience and content accessibility makes it the ultimate choice for streaming even with both of their variety of functions. 

     In Chapter 4 of The Connected Educator , Nussbaum-Beach and Hall emphasize the importance of creating a collaborative culture. These principles resonate deeply with my experience as a computer science major and during my summer internship at the Federal Aviation Association. In the chapter, we are taught to not only focus on the work we go through with our peers but to focus more on creating strong relationships. Something I did during my career that I can do with the chapter was during my internship. One of the biggest strengths I brought to my team was my interpersonal skills. I connected with my team members on a more meaningful level, which helped create a supportive environment where I was able to learn more from them personally.      Putting relationships first, as the authors suggest, is foundational in a collaborative environment. During my internship, I found that prioritizing connections with colleagues went a long way in creating a smoother ...

           Game Developers love the Godot Engine as it is an open-source game development environment that offers a good set of features to help make you more flexible in your design. It allows developers to develop 2D and 3D games for different platforms like Windows, macOS, Linux distributions for Ubuntu or Fedora, as well as Android. The user-friendly node structure makes it easy and intuitive to get started building complex scenes or modifying gameplay elements, whether you are a beginner just starting out or an experienced developer. Godot allows you to write your games in its own scripting language, GDScript and has support for writing them in C# as well or even VisualScript. Additionally, since Godot is an open source project developed with community input, it continues to improve and offer tools and resources without the steep prices that often come bundled up alongside most game engines. It has turned out to be quite well known for indie game devel...

     Chapter 5 of The Connected Educator, titled "Using Tools to Support Connected Learning," explores the essential role that digital tools play in helping with collaboration and connected learning. Nussbaum-Beach and Hall introduce a large selection of tools, from social networking sites to bookmarking services, that help educators build and sustain personal learning networks. As a computer science major myself, learning how to effectively leverage these tools can be very useful for the constantly changing tech world. They provide avenues for continuous learning, which is especially valuable in tech fields where staying current is key.      In my studies at Stockton University, I’ve already begun using some of these tools to collaborate and stay informed, like GitHub for code-sharing and Discord for class discussions and project planning. Chapter 5 suggests tools like Twitter, Ning, and Diigo for sharing resources and insights, which I can see being help...

In Chapter 6 of The Connected Educator , the authors Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall talk about how establishing a connected learning community to foster professional growth using collaboration is important as a main way of learning. Since today's world is moving more in the digital direction it is important for us to create our own personal and professional learning networks so that we can keep up with the world's fast-paced evolution. Unlike Chapter 2, this chapter encourages educators to not only connect with those around them but also to go online to build global communities so that they can share ideas and resources in their respective fields. As someone who is aspiring to become a software engineer as my future career, the idea of building a community is inspiring to me. The field is rapidly changing so staying connected to my professors, classmates, and colleagues is needed to provide me with the more relevant tools and insights of the computer science field. ...