Daily Log Blog 2/28/18

Our class started off today with Mr.Rivers going over the structure, content, conventions of podcasts. We went over what specifically is content, structure and conventions. Conventions are patterns across texts and the structure is how narratives are shaped, and content is what stuff is in the narrative. Mr.Rivers gave us a tip on how we can make our groups podcasts more effective such as using verbs and questions to keep the conversations going while in the podcast. Another way to keep the conversation moving and fresh are to move onto another topic every three minutes. We then moved onto the slide show that we were working on yesterday. We talked about the specific goals of podcasts and then brought it back to our groups and talked about where we saw these specific goals in our podcasts that we listened to yesterday. We talked about specific examples that we can find in our podcast that we listened to yesterday and applied them to the goals. In my podcast that I listened to was Gastropod The Scoop on Ice Cream they brought in a specific scientist who investigated why brain freeze happened. It happens because when the cold hits a certain artery in the back of your throat it sends a signal to your brain to transfers more blood to a certain part of your head causing a headache (brain freeze). That topic would deepen the investigation in the podcast because it brings in a lot of information to form one complete question and in turn helps further the conversation within the podcast. To connect today's class to the outside world, regular conversations that we all have everyday can be an example. When having regular conversations people want to constantly keep the conversation going and not have awkward silence in between sentences so people will bring in related but not the same ideas to keep the conversation flowing.