For the twitter expert connect, I looked for the people that looked more like they’d be willing to help me, and also those who look like they know about my subject.
I followed these next accounts for my expert connect, Volleyball Coaching, Coaching Volleyball, VB Coaching Wizards, At Home on the Court, JVA, Art of Coaching VB, Penuel Josh Barrina, Volleyball Metrics, Volleyscience, and Volleyball Toolbox. I picked all of these except one because of how their account looks, and how it looked like they knew what they were talking about, and one which I knew as our volleyball coach showed us to him from youtube.
These people relate to my genius hour project as they are coaches, experts, and authors about volleyball, and skills that will help you max out your potential and become a better overall volleyball player. I requested from them their opinion on who some of the better spikers were and which ones they thought were more dominant overall.
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The way that I asked my questions were first by introducing myself, and the reason to why I was requiring information about who they think are the best spikers. This information would help me in my Genius Hour project as I had found the stats to prove who was “the better spiker”, but I needed opinion and out of 10 to see who in their opinion was the best.
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For a result I wouldn’t say that it was exactly like how I planned. As before I asked the questions they were all very nice, and would consistently respond to my messages but, when it came to my questions only two responded, and one of them just favorited it. Basically all or most followed me back though, and most of their sites have a whole lot of information.
I unfortunately didn’t receive more assistance, barely any of them even responded out of the 10. I did continue the conversation with two of them, as they were sort of ping ponging me back and fourth, telling me to ask one other for more information, but they ended responding to all my questions, which was very helpful towards my Genius Hour.
There many ways in which this process can be used for school work in the future. This gets you information from people who are actually in the field of work, and are the middle of all these things. They know what they’re saying, and this is basically a primary source, as you’re hearing from that person head on. You could use this to gain knowledge from people online, just in case your teacher doesn’t have that much facts on what you’re working on, so you can find a lot more facts than you could from just searching online without knowing for sure if it’s a lie or not.
In conclusion, the twitter expert connect was a good experience as not only do you get to meet people you can also find information that you never knew about, and it’s just generally a good experience overall.
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