Barry Bell

Project Plan

Site Title: Folks Basketball Academy

Developer: Barry Bell

Rational or focus: Folks Basketball Academy focus on the fundamentals of basketball. Our goal is to push these kids mentally and physically to be the best basketball players hey can be. We will be going through different drills to work on their skill set.

Main features outline: About, Camps, Training, contact, and price

Target audience: youth ages from 5-18

Design Considerations: Pictures with kids working out, basketball, training drills, and guest speakers to the kids

Limiting factors: Don’t know how to make pictures move from picture to picture or don’t know how to make tabs drop down from the main header.

Content:  My main page is to get youth to sign up for my basketball academy

Barry Bell

Journal 3

Reading this article was very interesting to see what people think about having social media implement in class. I agree with the article on how social media is dangerous for both students and teachers. The reason I think that because both the professor and students can’t really respond how they want to respond to the topic. The professors and students will always have to show code of ethic if they using social media because they might say something that offend someone. The only social media I think will work for class is Twitter. The reason why I think Twitter will work, because you can use hashtags where anybody can use that hashtag. Taking this route, I think it will make it an open discuss to all. In a previous class I use a hashtag for Twitter for class and people across the world was talking about the same topic and using the same hashtag as us. With all this said I still don’t think this should be a mandatory thing. Like in the article people will like to have they their personal social life different from their school life.

1.Is social media that impactful in our society where teachers should implement it in our classroom?

I think social media is a big part of our society; but I don’t think it’s coming to a point where teachers have to implement in his/her classroom. A thing I do think teachers should do is use more social media articles to talk about some of the topics in today’s society. 

2.Is there really a benefit with social media being implement in class?

-In my opinion, I don’t think there is a benefit of having social media implement in class. The reason I say that is because if you really want to ask a teacher about their opinion on a topic I feel like you can ask them through email or in class.

My overall experience with Digg has been good. I use Digg to read about current events going on worldwide; but what I mainly use it is to read articles about sports. I like this page because it gives you articles you have never seen before. I check Digg about three times out the week and read about two to three articles. Digg can help you get updated around the world by looking and reading articles. After this class I probably will still use Digg when I just want to read about college basketball. Another thing I like about this is that this website is easy to navigate. A thing I don’t like about Digg is that sometimes the articles don’t have enough information, so I be wondering why they have this article on the main page. I like how Digg has some videos to go with the articles.  The infinitely group I join is #collegebasketballcoach on Twitter. Joining this group is a quick way I just stay up on the basketball information.

How is Digg used in my profession?

My profession is a College Basketball Coach and Digg is used in my profession in a unique way. The way it will be used is reading articles and seeing what rules are being broke and see what is okay and not okay to do. Also it helps to see what recent things is happening in the basketball world not only with the player but coaches and officials.

What can Digg do to upgrade the website in your opinion?

I think Digg can update the website is by having hashtags for hot topic around the world. This way if they log on Digg they can see the top ten hashtags and see what the world think is important right now. The use of this will be like twitter but it will have articles behind these main ideas.