Purpose:
My motivation in creating such instructions comes from lack of resources and knowledge to those new at cheerleading. I hope the audience feels at ease about my concept and gives it a chance, no matter their previous experience with doing a back-handspring. I know how hard it can be learning to tumble for the first time. It’s stressful and often confusing because you hear so many wrong and right ways to perform the task. I hope with my instructions, I can portray the correct and graceful ways to do a back-handspring. The best possible outcome would be that it is actually affective and proven to be safe. The worst possible outcome is that someone could get injured if the instructions are not followed exactly and properly. My communication should hopefully be clear and direct, and also express the difficulty and dangers. With that being said my worst possible outcome should be rare, if at all. My main goal is to really show the break down of each step visually giving the audience something to mock.
Audience:
Characteristics:
*Middle class socio-economic status (semi-important)
*Females (important)
*Ages 13 to 17 (fairly important)
*Predominately Caucasian (not important)
*Physically fit (very important)
*Straight in orientation (not important)
*Determined
*Anxious
* Persistent
*Calm
Conditions:
*The audience will be in a determined mood because acquiring such a skill is imperative to becoming a good cheerleader.
*The audience will be interested in my communication because it will be interactive and visual. The audience might be disinterested in the amount of time it takes to actually acquire the skill.
Context:
Occasion
Write down your responses to the prompts on pages 38 and 39.
The source of communication is useful at any point in the year but especially during the months of June and July (summer, and two months prior to the start of a new cheer season). This information would be something searched and not easily stumbled upon; therefore, the listeners would be more attentive. Specific occasion, such as cheerleading tryouts/placements would be reason to motivate communication.
Place
The communication will most likely take place online through a series of videos, pictures, and list of instructions. The audience will be wherever they have access to a computer. I a printer friendly version of the instructions will also be included to take to wherever they participate in such instruction.
Strategies:
I wan to help and encourage young females to safely learn a stand back-handspring. Through a series of easy-to-comprehend videos and pictures I hope to show the audience that learning a tumbling skill can be fun, fast, and efficient.
Medium:
My medium will be a webpage or a video. I lean towards the website because I can appeal to all learning styles by having listed instructions and visuals. The video will show you in detail; however might be hard for some to comprehend. Having a website makes it more accessible to cheerleaders who search for ways (online) to learn tumbling.
Arrangement:
The arrangement of my instructional set will be simple. I plan on using numbered steps with pictures demonstrating each of the steps. At the end of all of the steps, I will have a video demonstrating what a back-handspring looks like in full and slow motion.
Testing:
To test my instructions I plan to take them to a local cheerleading gym and see the response I get from beginners as well advanced tumblers. I would make a checklist of things that I should and shouldn’t do.
Dos
Be clear
Exhibit safety
Be understandable
Don’ts
Use cheer lingo
Assume too much of the audience
Put participants in danger
In-class critique
1. I fell like you most thoroughly covered the purpose element of your instruction set.
2. I feel like you least covered the strategies element of your instruction set.
3. It connects to what I am doing in that it is a physical activity that is fun and healthy.
4. It would be harder to teach kids how to do a hand-spring if the medium were changed to a textbook.
* You really know your
* You really know your audience I like that you went through and listed their characterisitcs.
I think that a video is a good choice, esp. since someone that is unexperienced will be following your instructions.
*Focus on your strategies a bit more, think about the setting of the video, who is going to be talking, or maybe who is going to be doing the backhandspring.
*Both of our instruction sets have an audience of children and how to teach them a task that would require supervision.
*If you changed your instruction set to text with photos it would completely alter your project to where someone that was following the instructions could get hurt. A video is defin. a better choice because someone can watch the instructions that might be hard to understand by reading text.