Aliecia Brissett W14: Topic Refiement

The pitch exercise actually did help refine my initial topic/question for my podcast. Initially I thought this exercise was a waste of time because I didn't understand why we would need to write out our podcast pitch if we had already presented our pitch to the class. But in writing out our podcast pitch, and addressing them in a professional manner, it really helped refine my question/topic and helped layout my plan to get started on my segment.  

Tuesday's lecture also really helped put my topic/question into perspective because it helped me to ask additional questions to my initial question and breakup my question into smaller parts (that's a lot of breaking up questions, do you still follow?). With that exercise, and the feedback from my presentation, it helped me narrow down my topic/question, and in turn helped me narrow down how I would continue my research.

My refined question/topic is, How is today’s technology effecting child development and leading to how we communicate with each other? My first question/ topic was very broad and I wanted to cover many topics in such a small amount of time (I honestly forgot my first question, that how long it was..), but from writing out my pitch, and taking the advice from Prof. Bell, I'm now not as stressed as I was before when getting started with this project. Now that I have a clear mind, (and refined question/topic) I can gather all of the appropriate materials that I will need to have an engaging podcast.

Now the only stress I have is to actually record.....