Thursday, March 31, 2011

Crunch Time

I have reviewed over Dr. Robinson's feedback on my user manual and I have made my corrections.  I will re-read over it again tomorrow to make sure there are no grammatical errors.  I have also completed many more articles and I will continue to add more up until Monday, when the final documents are to be handed in.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Update as of March 28th

I uploaded my Final draft of my user manual over the weekend to myfiles for Dr. R to look over before I print out the final copy.  This week I will be adding more articles to the website and creating another youtube clip to add to an article.  I will also be attending a few events that the athletes are taking part in this week to take more pictures and to write more articles.  Tonight I will be revising my Annotated Bib, so that it is ready for the final deliverable.

Monday, March 14, 2011

first movie completed

Since my last post, I have added more features to my website, including links to different pages to make navigation much more easier.  I have also had to edit my user manual because the layout of weebly.com has changed some.

Today, I have created my first youtube clip for my website.  This clip is of the women's soccer team, the night that they participated on the S.T.A.T Brown Bag project.  I used iMovie that is on my MacBook Pro.  It was relatively easy to figure out how to create a video.  I added some text to help explain things further and I was also able to add names under the people that are talking.  I also wanted to make sure that I had parts of the video where the girls were being interviewed.  I had two "interviews" of two different members of the team that participated.

I am just waiting to show Dr. R to see if she has any suggestions before I upload it.  I have to put the video on youtube before I can upload it so I want to get it looked at before I do that.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Update!!

It has been a while since my last post, so here is an update on what I have completed to date.

~I have completed my annotated bibliography and I am just waiting on the feedback.  This semesters Ann. Bib. was a lot less stressful than last semesters in Comm. Research, because I was able to use the research that I had done last semester.  I think it is a good idea that they are changing the requirements, and making comm. research a requirement before Senior Project, since there is so much to do for this project.

~I am also pretty far in my website.  I have the website created, and I also have 5 articles completed, and I am working on numbers 6 and 7 at the moment.  I try to get a lot of quotes of how the athletes feel and what their thoughts are on the projects that they participate in.  This helps give them a voice.  I am also trying to incorporate as many pictures and youtube clips as possible.
This last Sunday, I went out to the polar plunge to video tape a friend of mine jumping into the lake to raise money for Special Olympics.  I am most excited about this one because they are not as many male athletes that I have stories for.

~ I am also working on my User Manual.  This is actually a little more time consuming then I thought it would be because I am trying to break down every single step so that there is no confusion for the viewer.  So far I have 9 pages completed.