For our WA4, Samantha and I have decided to do a media project consisting of videos, pictures, and our initial interview. The interview that we are going to use is the one of Samantha interviewing me. This interview is centered on my literary history and how it developed over the course of my career as a basketball player. She first started by asking me questions in reference to my early years as a much younger basketball player, and as the interview proceeded she began to ask more questions about the present. This is a good first interview and a great interview to use for our WA4 because it is talking about the development of literacy in basketball. I believe that if we can see how literacy develops we will be able to spot it out more regularly. The way the WA4 will be set up is while there are pictures scrolling across the screen you will hear me and Samantha in the background conducting the interview. Also, at some points rather than hearing Samantha speak, the question will just be written out on the screen and you will hear my answers. This will be the audio for the entire video. Along with the interview going on and pictures being shown, there will be little excerpts of video scattered throughout as well. There is a possibility we will talk about these videos and show examples of how players are reading in the video clip. This is all a preliminary or a rough draft of ideas we have for taking this WA4. This set up could change completely; however, at this point we think taking it this direction will produce the best WA4 possible!
We are still using the same codes that we had originally posted in the previous research journals. It was intended to be a preliminary list; however, they worked better than expected. Those codes covered a huge chunk of the different types of reading that happens during a contest and in our fieldnotes we were able to put these little codes by them and we knew exactly what type of reading was going on. We are searching for other things that we can use code to help us understand, but at this time the codes we have are covering everything we need.
Unfortunately I missed the class where we reviewed the East Caney interviews so I do not have a set of fieldnotes for them. However, I reviewed the pictures Dr. Carter posted on the website and I enjoyed watching the short video and learned some great things from it!
