Curation Part III

       This week for my curation I have mostly focused on the rules of hockey such as, offsides, icing, legal/illegal checks, and minor/major penalties. Upon doing my research, I found a few rules that I have never seen called or heard before. For example, there is a penalty for "refusing to start play." While further researching this penalty, I found that it happens pretty much every game. Most especially on icing calls when the players aren't allowed to the leave the ice and are tired. The purposely take their time skating the faceoff dot and directing teammates, so I would think that would count as a penalty. I guess I found that they only call that for extreme cases.

       Doing this type of research this week recquired lots of video watching and a lot of more visual explanations for my curation website. I think the rules of hockey is probably one of the most boring parts of hockey that you need to know in order to comprehend the game. A lot of people would rather watch the fancy plays and the goals, but the penalties and rules is what the whole game is played and based off of, therefore it's too important just to ignore. I pretty much have all the information I need to start working on all the graphics and visualizations for the website. My research first idea has paid off, I feel much less stressed out about it now than I did last week. Of course I had to save the most boring for last though, so this week has been a little bit of a drag.

       Like I mentioned above, the next steps I'm taking is to complete all the images and the actual layout of my curation. I've been waiting patiently to do this part of the project. I love messing around with photography and pictures to create designs. It was something I was really into before high school and stopped doing it after freshman year. I also still have to work on the story part of my curation. I've gotten a better idea for what I want to do, but there is still a few parts I'm not sure about. For example, I want to start off with the complete basics of hockey, and then move into the more stuff I call "the icing on the cake." This "icing" is stuff like captaincy, moves, jersey numbers, how each position is played, etc. Can't wait to see what it all looks like on Tuesday.

Curation Part II

       This week for my curation, I have been working on getting all of my information put down onto web pages. I figured that doing that first would be the best and most time effcient way to doing things. If I put on information whenever I was finished with a graphic, it would take me forever to do this project. The most interesting thing I have found so far would be all the different videos I plan on putting on the curation. I have a specific page for "dekes" or the style moves that hockey players make in order to score goals or make a play. It is amazing how well their brain thinks and comprehends the game at such a high pace, and seeing the different moves they can make with the puck just makes it even that much better.

       The biggest obstacle for me so far, would be figuring out how to put all my information together in a way that's more than just a bunch of reading, and finding a way to word it that would make sense for everyone. For me, hockey knowledge just comes to me naturally and there are so many different terms I use to explain it that it can be hard to turn off that part of my brain since it is so prominent in everything I do in my everday life. My goal is to continue to get all my curating down first and then figure out how to put it all in a way that can create some type of story. If I can get the story part figured out, I think that all the other stuff will come much more smoothly and I'll get a better idea of what I'm trying to get at.

       As I mentioned above, one of the first steps I want to take is to find a way to make my curation into a story. I'm not 100% sure how I'll find a way to do that, but I'm sure it will come to me as I continue researching. The second step I need to take is to find more information on the rules involving head hits (what's illegal/legal). On top of finding more info, I want to create a video or something visual that can get the point across the best way possible. To try and teach a rule about head hits through text would just be plain boring, and no one would be interested in learning. Lastly, I want to start making a team starting lineup page, but since it's the playoffs it is a little harder trying to find all the lineups from the regular season. This is also another step into figuring out the story portion of my curation.

Curation Process

This week for my curation process I have been thinking of ways to layout my website. I've decided to use the wix website builder to create my site. I haven't specifically started anything for it but I have been planning where I want certain images and text placed. I want to do a curation on the easiest way to understand hockey so you can enjoy watching the games. To go a little more outside the box I'm going to try and make an interactive website with more images/pictures so people don't get bored reading a bunch of text. My goal is to show how fun and exciting hockey really is. I used to hate it so much until I looked beyond just sticks and an object to hit around. So by making the site more interactive I hope I can get people into a more entertained mindset. 

At this point in the process of curation, I haven't done any research or focused on information based ideas. I have mostly been looking at tutorials and re-learning all the photoshop and HTML tricks and tips. One tutorial I found is about making an image clickable and creating a specific path to certain parts of the website. I'm also looking for a tutorial that allows certain parts of an image to be more interactive than other parts.

My biggest obstacle, I believe, is making my whole idea come to life. I used to love doing stuff like this and working with HTML code and creating my own graphics, but it can be time consuming and sometimes it doesn't always come out like you plan. And even beyond that, some of the things I want done might be more difficult than what I could do. Either way it will be hard to create my site in a way that's totally different than what's already out there. 

The next steps in my curation process is to start finding images to edit and to touch up, or use my own images and edit all of those. I want to get the idea and layout setup first and then after that research for my topic. I need to research each individual team and create some sort if interactive lineup that can give out information about each player and that specific team. Lastly, hopefully I can put everything together enough for my topic to get officially approved by Mr. Allen. My goal by the end of the week is to have a sample/general idea page all setup.