{"id":573898340,"date":"2025-10-09T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898340"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:19","slug":"classes-and-bicycle-clicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/10\/09\/classes-and-bicycle-clicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes and bicycle clicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a quickish post, because that is the theme of late. It is a necessary theme. Why, I do not really understand, but it just is. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re entering a little podcast section of the criticism in sport media course. Today was our first. They&#8217;ll listen to a different style of production next week. And, two weeks from today we&#8217;ll have a little midterm exercise on a third style of podcast. After which, we will move back into video products. By then we&#8217;ll also be halfway through the term, and I am hoping we&#8217;ll start turning a corner into some real critical analysis. But, today, we discussed this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oi9g0QrX_J4?si=5wS5sCdioh2631-d\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was clear that some people actually listened to this episode. And not all of them especially liked it. <\/p>\n<p>There are six or eight general styles of podcast, this sits in perhaps two of those little worlds, and it is well done. Also, the story is a good one, and it is well produced. But it didn&#8217;t land to the degree that I&#8217;d hoped. One key task in teaching media criticism is to convince people of the need and value of critical analysis even when it&#8217;s not your favorite subject matter. The episode above is the final installment of a four-part serial about money in college basketball. The exploitation and the exploited. That should be fairly mainstream for a sports media audience. The podcast they&#8217;ll listen to next week is a bit more of a back-and-forth talk show. Maybe that&#8217;ll solve our problems. <\/p>\n<p>In the org comm class I returned the students into their groups &#8212; they are running a fantasy football league as part of the class &#8212; and pretended to be their GM, telling them each to nominate and pitch one of their players as a feature story for Monday Night Football. At the end of the class they all gave a give spiel. Then we all voted on the best one. One group got a few extra points for having the best story and best pitch, almost by unanimous consent. And, truthfully, they were ready to help the MNF producers tell a great story. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerbike.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When we got home this evening my lovely bride told me to go on a bike ride. I do what I&#8217;m told. She had to go do something else, but I got to pedal away into the early evening air. <\/p>\n<p>Normally, I would avoid or crop or otherwise edit a little power line out of my photos, but I liked the way the sunlight was bouncing sharply off the underside of this one. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct25\/oct47.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And my timing was just right, such that i got a terrific shadow selfie. I&#8217;ve almost got the technique here down, as you can see.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct25\/oct48.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was just a little 50-something minute ride, through and around town, but I was grateful for the chance to get out and do it. (Thanks, hon!) <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct25\/oct49.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is going up the little hill where our subdivision is. So, once again, I was able to time this out pretty well. Power lines notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Tomorrow will be less fun than this, but at least it starts the weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a quickish post, because that is the theme of late. It is a necessary theme. Why, I do not really understand, but it just is. We&#8217;re entering a little podcast section of the criticism in sport media course. Today was our first. 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