Final Blog Post

Today I gave my final presentation. I basically gave a tour of my website and showed the work that Ben and I put into it. I wrapped up the presentation with explaining how the different skills went into it and what I learned about myself. I thought that the presentation went pretty well. I made sure that the class understood that I was pretty busy for the past few months with the work on this project. There are not any next steps for the project per say. The sight is finished and I did all the work I set out to do. With that being said I still write for my own blog occasionally so if I am writing something I would definitely consider putting it on the website because the website that we created for this project looks much better than my blog. So the website could definitely be continued in the future. Although it was a pain to put together I still thought that making the weekly broadcast videos was my favorite part of the work I did. Broadcasting is very fun and I prefer it over writing because I am better at expressing my opinions when I am speaking as opposed to writing. Although writing is not my favorite thing per say, I still really enjoyed writing about the top twenty-five recruiting classes. My least favorite part of the work this term was the blog posts by far. I felt that the blog posts were hindering to my project in a way because instead of writing for my project I had to write three blog posts a week. I think one blog post a week giving an update to the class is more reasonable. There is no reason to post three times a week. I was able to work through the pain of the blog posts and finish all my work on time. The advice that I would give to next year's seniors would be firstly to choose a topic that you are truly interested in. I can't speak for the people who chose topics that they were not interested in, but I had a great time doing my project so I feel that they should all find something they are very interested in. My other piece of advice would be to stay on top of things. I know it is easy to let the work slip when you are working individually, but if you stay on top of your work then it will make things easy for you in the end. I think this mentality can be used in life in general as well. The ultimate truth that I learned about my working process is that I can put my head down and get things done. I don't think anyone heard me speak very much in English class this term because once I got in the classroom I got down to business. I knew that I had my work cut out for me so I wasted no time in class. To be honest I was surprised at how I was able to stay so focussed on my project during class. I am happy to know that I can get down to work when I need to. What I learned about myself is that I still want to be a sports broadcaster and study broadcast journalism in college. When I was in middle school I realized that I would not play professional sports so from that point on I have always wanted work in the field of sports broadcasting. I knew this project was going to test whether or not sports broadcasting is something I would want to pursue. I had a great time doing the newscasts so that just reassured my passion. This was an absolutely great way to spend the term because I was able to do something I loved and work with one of my best friends. I am very thankful for this entire process.