March 2020 – Buzzer Beaters

I’ve just created a Youtube channel and posted my first video, “How to play basketball”! The purpose of this video is to teach not only my viewers, but anyone, how to play the game of basketball. Since my blog is centered around basketball and the NBA, knowing how to play the game is very important.

I expect users to find my video through either my blog or their recommended page. Someone who is a fan of basketball or want to know about basketball will get basketball related videos recommended to them. Since my title is “How to play basketball,” it isn’t too unreasonable to assume that they would come across my video eventually. This is what is known as a filter bubble, in which “The new generation of Internet filters looks at the things you seem to like — the actual things you’ve done, or the things people like you like — and tries to extrapolate” (Wolf 4).

I think that they will find it worthwhile because it goes over all of the rules of how to play the game, which is very informative. Additionally, the screencast-o-matic software enabled me to make a quality video that included narration and visual aids, making it clear and easy to follow. The Wolf article discusses something similar in which someone said “sometimes I just watch the YouTube video of someone doing something and I can tell if they’re doing a good job or not … You can see as they’re doing it if anything they’re doing would cause a problem. You can see when they’re done with it that it works and everything” (Wolf 8). I hope that with my video, people see that I am trying to do a good job and I also believe that the screencast software helped me to achieve that.

Links to images used in video:

Basketball Court by Eric Nyquist