Podcast Reflection

My podcast is directed at any high school bowler, or someone in high school that wants to be on the bowling team. The purpose was to inform them about the rules and the season time. The rules are very important because they are strictly enforced. The design of the front page has the IHSB Logo on it, which is the logo that must be on the Team shirts, I thought this was important so that they knew what it looked like. The organization went from the season to the practices and then to the dress code. This is because that is pretty much the organization of the bowling year. You find out when you start then you have practices followed by meets where the dress code is put into affect. I think my assignment turned out really well and it is full of very important information that any high school bowler will need to know. I am very proud of how well the information turned out and how well it is pieced together. If I had had more time I may have put different sounds at the beginning and end. I wanted to do the sound of a ball on the lane at the very beginning and the sound of pins at the end, but because of personal issues I missed a day of class. I don't think I would change anything due to more technical knowledge. I know the program and what you can do with it, it was more time.

For my research I used the IHSB site and some of the coaches PDF files off line. These gave me all the information I needed. I was really happy with how easy it was to find what I needed. The website is really organized and it doesn't take long to find answers to your questions.

All in all I am very happy with the way it turned out considering I missed a day of class. It probably could have sounded a little better, but I don't like recording in class where everyone can hear me talk, so it is like a whisper in the beginning and it gets a little louder as I go on. I knew the technology because I used it last year, so it really wasn't all that difficult.

My Podcast

http://student.calumet.purdue.edu/~rogersba/csw/podcast/Podcast%20Page.html

Heres the link to my podcast page. My script, podcast, and reference list is all on there.

podcast blog

My podcast is going to center around high school bowling. It is going to cover the season, rules, and practices. Mostly it is going to be based on my own personal experience. The rules and season I am going to get off line because the rules change a little every year, and the season seems to get later every year.

My main focus with the rules is going to be the differences between a school league and an adult league. Adult leagues can wear what ever they want where as school leagues have a very strict dress code that all bowlers and coaches must follow. Also with the dress code, in adult league you can wear jewelry, and in school leagues you are allowed one wrist watch, one ring per hand, one stud earing per ear, and that is is. No necklaces,nose rings, tongue rings, multiple ear piercings, ect.

Practices are different as well because in high school you have to practice twice a week,but its free and in adult league if you want to practice you have to do it on your own time, and you have to pay for it.

I think this is going to be a cool podcast. Let me know what you think.

Reflectoin

I chose bowling because I knew I would have a large audience and because I love the sport. The reason for my webtext is just to inform people about bowling and where they can go to bowl. When organizing it I put the list of places first because I felt it was the most important thing. I made sure to use bright colors and some pictures to catch the readers eye. I also put in a video on how to bowl and the technique for someone that doesnt know how to bowl. I am proud of not only the list of alleys, but the mear fact that i got it done. If I had had more time I would have put in more pictures, but I got so confused with Dream Weaver and the Picture thing we had to do to make it work I got frustrated and just said whatever. If I had a better knowledge of Dream Weaver and how to put things into it I would have been able to make the page the way I invisioned it. In my text I have links to all my sources because I took little pieces from them and paraphrased, but there is still a wealth of information on those sites that may be interesting to some people. I also included some additional sites that have some pretty interesting articles about bowling and bowling news. My favorite link sends you to a page with a ton of equipment you can buy. I could spend so much money. All in all I think the project was interesting, but I didnt like Dream Weaver and I dont think my webtext is as good as it could have been because of my lack of knowledge on how to use Dream Weaver.

Expanding my Topic

I think for my podcast I am going to go into the direction of talking about Highschool Bowling and how it doesnt get the credit, or recognition it deserves. My highschool didnt even recongnize it as a sport and when I bought my own letter for my lettermans jacket, they wanted me to remove it because it wasnt recognized. Of course I didnt and had a few choice words with some people. Indiana is working on passing a bill to make Bowling a Sanctioned School Sport, but there has to be a certain amount of school that have bowling teams before the State can do anything about it so right now it is up to the school to recognize it, and many dont.

♦Hows the project going ♦

So I have found a lot of cool stuff. I have a long list of local bowling alleys and their phone numbers. If they have a web site I plan on making their name a link to there page which will be pretty cool. This way you dont have to search for them there all in a nice Table! I also found the history of bowling and it is over 5,000 years old. I have a lot of bowling gear and equipment pages as well as proshop pages that will be links in my web text as well.

My web text is comming along I guess. I have all the information I need and its all organized in my head, but I have no idea how to work this dream weaver thing and I dont have it on my computer at home so I pretty much waste time trying to figure out how the heck to do stuff which is aggervating. I have some really cool ideas for my web text but im not going to spend like 20 min of class trying to figure out how to do one thing.

The only thing I want to go over in my meeting is how to do stuff like putting in links and stuff because I want to make sure it is going to work right. Other than that I should be good.

Webtxt proposal

I did my proposal on Bowling. I am going to do the history of bowling, equipment used, and where you can go. I am using websites and videos to aid my topic.