Completed Project

Hi Everyone!

Here's the link to my completed product; this can also be found on my genius hour blog Final Product page. This product is complete as far as this course goes; I plan to continue building my website and hopefully continue to build my goalkeeper training resume.

Over the course of this week I completed my home page, finished up the Distribution and Foot Skills section of skills, linked terms to the glossary, and built a contact page.

Of the three distribution and foot skills sections, hand distribution was definitely the most time consuming. In addition to the rules and importance, this section has two different types of throws and volleys (this term is linked to my glossary page) of which to cover technique.

In creating the glossary each term is linked to that page. This works for now, but as I include more skills and add more terms to the glossary, I will be looking to find a way to link to a specific line on the glossary page. This is a project for later.

Since I haven't completed my site and have not created an email specifically for my work as a goalkeeper trainer, I wanted to find another way for people to communicate with me and provide feedback on my website. I chose to build a comment section on the contact page and found the following video to show me how:

Thanks for following along with my process of building my Genius Hour Product. Stay tuned for the addition of my Ted Talk and the continued construction of my Goalkeeper Training website. My next and final blog post will be next week when I reflect on the experience I've gained over the course of the project.

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Researching and Categorizing Goalkeeper Skills

Hi Everyone! The first task I needed to complete for this project was brainstorming each of the different skills needed for goalkeeping. I did a little research to check if I was missing any skills, but for the most part I researched how people grouped the skills into different categories as I found a lot of skills overlapped between some of the initial categories I created. For example, positioning is a skill that can be included in a number of different categories. Where a keeper positions themself on set pieces (corner kicks, free kicks, penalties, etc.) is very important, but positioning also plays a key role in being able to break up through balls or long balls as well as cutting down angles on shots and one-on-ones. My first thought was to include each of these within the category of positioning, but there are other skills involved in one-on-ones and set pieces that aren't closely related to positioning; for example timing, anticipation (reading a shooter or play), and commu...

Continuing my website and breaking down the skills

Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoyed visiting my site and having a look at the format. This week I focused on creating the pages for each skill section, linking the specific skills to these pages, and starting with breaking down one of the skills. Here's a look at the front page of the distribution and foot skills section. I created a page with a brief heading explaining the importance of this category of skills. The skill I decided to start a breakdown of was goal kicks. I chose to start with goal kicks because it's one of the more straight-forward skills. Check out the goal kicks page below: While breaking down Goal Kicks I included links to the rules and especially focused on the new rule change that no longer requires a goal kick to leave the box to be in play. I also highlighted the importance of learning this skill for goalkeepers and shared some of my own experience improving this skill as I gained the size required to add power to my kick. One thing I recognized while d...

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