Ch. 8 Fieldworking
This chapter was very helpful to me because it helped me because it taught me that in the past I was going about putting drafts together the wrong way. I’m a perfectionist, so when I’m doing a paper or a video or any type of project I have I always start at the beginning. I won’t move forward until the first paragraph or frame is perfect. It takes me forever because I just sit and look at a small section of my project until I’m finish with it then when I move to the next section I have to get up and find my material for the next section whether it be some file on my computer, a picture on my camera, or some paper on my desk, or in one of my folders. But with the way that chapter eight says to lay everything out is an excellent way to work with a draft so that you don’t have to keep searching for things.
Table of Contents:
Fieldnotes:
1) Fieldnotes # 1: The first set of fieldnotes is basically over the different types of things in the game of basketball that having to be read by the Commerce men’s basketball team.
2) Fieldnotes# 2: These are over the first practice that I went to. This practice was an easy practice because it was the last practice before the team began in-season practices. This was helpful to me because I got to watch the players truly interacting with one another as they played five on five.
3) Fieldnotes# 3: This set is over the second day of in-season practice. These show they guys working together to become better and get ready for the games while still adjusting to the new practices.
4) Fieldnotes#4: This set is over the game at DBU on 11/09/09. This was the third game of the season and my first game to watch. It was interesting to watch the guys interact in the midst of a fast pace game.
5-7) Fieldnotes # 5- #7: These three sets were taken the week before and the week of Thanksgiving _______break. The players really showed their passion for the game at these practices. Their _______communication with one another really showed during their games of five on five in practice.
Writing Assignments:
1) WA#1: This assignment is a look at my own past with literacy sponsors with the use of the text “Literacy Sponsors” by Deborah Brandt. This is when I found the topic of reading in the game of basketball.
2) WA#2: This assignment was over the literacy in a specific community. I chose to look at the specific community of a basketball team and how it reads during a game. I used pictures that I had taken from the boy’s varsity team at my high school.
3) WA#3: This assignment was a research proposal over mine and Andrew study of the Commerce men’s basketball team. This really helped me lay out what I had and what I need to get for our project.
4) WA#4: This assignment is a mini version of our big project and is over the interview that we conducted over player Andrew Davis.
Interviews:
1) Players: Our first interview is of Andrew Davis. I interviewed him on video starting with how he began to play basketball and up until now playing in college and how he could see reading as literacy in the game of basketball.
2) Coaches: Coach Walker was interviewed on November 19. This interview was a great success. Coach Walker talked about how he viewed literacy, how he got to Commerce, and what he thought about literacy in the terms of basketball.
Archives:
1) Pictures: We have an assortment of pictures. Some from when Andrew was younger and playing basketball which will be used in our WA#4, some from the game at DBU, and some that Andrew has taken at the gym.
2) Videos: We have one video from the game at DBU, and our interviews of Andrew Davis and Coach Walker are on video.
With the completion of our WA#4, I’ve really been able to see what our final project is going to look like and I like where we are headed. So far with the answer about literacy in basketball, my interviewees haven’t thought about it before, but once I explain what I see as literacy in basketball they themselves start to see things in the same light. I’m very interested in getting our final interview and seeing if he answers similar to how Andrew and Coach Walker did.
Code Book:
- Reading players actions: Code: (PA) (PA1) (PA2) (PA2a)
Ex. Shuffling of feet, Body language, Head nods, Hand gestures, etc. - Reading players eyes: Code: (RPE) (RPE1) (RPE1) (RPE2a)
Ex. Certain looks, where they are looking on the floor, etc. - Verbal Communication: Code: (VC) (VC1) (VC2) (VC2a)
Ex. Play calls, Coach’s instruction, one word descriptions, anything verbal, etc. - Reading physical actions: Code: (RPA) (RPA1) (RPA2) (RPA2a)
Ex. Changes in directions, changes in speed, where the ball moves, etc - Reading Surroundings: Code: (RS) (RS1) (RS2) (RS2a)
Ex. The scoreboard, the crowd, the coach, the refs, etc. - No reading took place at all: Code: (N/A) Ex. A player may score on his own or do something out of pure instinct rather than by reading players on the floor.
- Scores as a result of reading: (SWR)
Ex. If a player scores from reading - Misses the shot but was able to create a scoring opportunity as a result of reading: (MWR)
Ex. If a player is able to create a shot opportunity as a result of reading; however misses the attempted shot then. - Coach makes call based on reading: (CR)
Ex. A coach calls a play because he reads something in the defense or because of time on the clock. - Coach’s play call works: (CR1)
Ex. The play that the coach called is successful as results in a score. - Coach’s play call fails: (CR2)
Ex. The play that the coach called is unsuccessful and results in a missed shot.
