Evaluation

How I Started My Research

For my critical studies work I decided to study the History of British games. I chose the subject of history other than Games as Art or Dramatic Elements as I have always found a fascination of what has happened in the past. History of game or pacifically the history of Football even so I did not start out with just Football in mind. I first thought I will do the history of three different games that had came about existence in the eleven hundreds century to the sixteen hundreds century. Each of these games would be different: The first game I chose would be a team based game for this I had chosen Football, the second game I would have chosen to be a board game perhaps like Shuffleboard and the third game was going to be a simulation type game such as Golf. However only a short way into this I decided cut out the board game as I want games that would involve the society that would have existed back then and not just a game that would had been played within a family. It was not until much later in my project that I realized that I would not have enough time to research both of these games so I decided rather reluctantly from the difficult choice for me to make to take out Golf and just study the very popular world wide sport Football and I also changed the dates so it was from when Football was first mentioned to the modern world today. So I started my research on football like from where it started. Football did originate from china way before it came to Europe but I wanted to know when did the game hit Britain. The first placed I went to, to start my research was the Internet, and on the inter-web I found one particular website where I got most of my information. This site became the landmark of my information. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Fhistory.htm

Problems That I Had Encountered

I had a few problems one of which was making sure I did not sound like I had copied and pasted the information from. I am unsure about whether or not I have succeeded in doing this. A personal problem I have is fleshing out texts and research to reach the minimum words required. Another problem I had early on was what to get for my academic texts but I have now solved this problem. For my academic texts one is about the first set of rules Cambridge and Sheffield had created, the second is about the beginning of advertising in the Football world. One of the major problems I had later on in my task was finding information about Football that wasn't related or connected the Football Association (known as FA) which is a organization that began in 1868. It was increasingly difficult to find stuff on Football that didn't relate to FA. It might have been just me not looking hard enough, this is certainly the case I think as just as I write this I have found a couple of books not relating to FA. A final problem I had was managing my time I think I started this project to late in the time that was given I should have started it much earlier.

Do I Think This Blog Is A Success?

Overall I am unsure about whether or not that I have succeeded in writing about the history of Football, this is majorly because of how do you make sure that when you interpret information that it isn't almost exactly the same as how other people sites have interpreted it. However I am fairly satisfied with the language that I have used in the academic texts, I have found any other interpretations of the book called The Football Programme A History and Guide by John Litster. I am fairly certain that I have put enough pictures on the blog without over doing it. As for the Bibliography there were only a few places where I got my research but I have mentioned many other thing, these things have been listed as well.

Blog Design

This is my first time using Blogger and I would say I am very much an amateur at using it, one of the first things I wanted to do on it was put a Football theme background on it but I could not figure out how so I have settled with a football pitch green. The second problem that annoyed me very much was getting each and every single post in the correct order that I wanted it in. Also relating to the second problem was the blog archive is that blogger actually give very few options on how do you want it lay-ed out. I was trying to get to have a list of the posted pages instead of the date that I had post that particular page. Even so after all the problems I am quite pleased that I have pictures and even a video embedded and place on and in the blog. Final I am glad I have got many links to other websites connected.

In The End

In the end if I were to pick a different subject topic it would have to be probably Genre in Games, looking at games that are either role playing, simulator, racing, action and many others. The subject I would most likely not choose would be Dramatic and Formal Elements.