Blog 4: Responding to Podcasts and Brainstorming

In the summer camp podcast they are talking to the people that attend summer camp, work there, and also oversee the whole site.  The people there are sharing what their experiences were and are like going to summer camp.  Also people explain what they remember when they used to go.  Through them telling us about their pasts at camp they are trying to convey a bigger picture and help us understand concepts that we could apply in our own lives, which is what project two is supposed to be about.  A profile is like the podcast “Becoming Batman” because they are only focused on one person and that is also what our project two will be about.  They talk about what they see and their times from younger years.  A quote from “Summer Camp” would be like when he says that every camp he has been “he was been apart of a team”.  He talks about a boy scouts they would together to survive and help others and at other camps you just help others find their way and make new friends.  In the “Becoming Batman” when she says “blindness is a social construction”.  He goes out and interviews a lot of people until he had an awe ha moment.  He talked to a homeless blind guy and asked him for his story.  It turns out that the blind guy went to an organization and they told him that he couldn’t work anymore and had to do mindless chores for others.  I thought this was a crazy story and I was wondering how a bling organization could even have those thoughts and tell the blind people that basically their futures and careers were over.  The meaning of the summer camp podcast is basically talking about how kids spent their summers with their friends and what lessons they learned when they were there.  The Becoming Batman podcast was about how everyone is a different person and you can spend your time how you want to.  You choose this texts to listen to because in our next project will are going to observe and group of people like the first podcast and more specifically one person in detail like the second listening.  You hear more information on the subjects to get their stories but the journalist also fills in some of the gaps with background thoughts with the questions.  Also in these podcasts you hear others noises that have to do with the summer camp and other people talking about that person, so it’s just not one person talking about themselves the whole time.  The podcast go in order of what happened and what the subject wants to talk about the most.  Although the questions should be typed out ahead of time with thought already put into creating them.  I really liked how they had other people talking in the podcasts, just to mix it up a little and get different perspectives.  I also liked how there was music to break up some of the sections and topics. 

For my project I really want to study a group of people from a sport, because I like sports and I have an easier access to observing and talking to them. I’m not really sure on what sport I am going to do yet but, I think I am going to do the Swimming team just because I see some of them in the morning when I go to study hall.  I am going to study basically their study habits and how they interact with each other as teammates in an academic setting.  I want to see if they communicate differently in study hall and studying with each other than in the pool or working out in the weight room.  This will go into my critical question well because I can look at how being teammates affects your overall time in college or just getting through the first week, which is what my question is about.