Examples of Seminar 2 Websites
Becoming American (Baruch 2016)
Becoming American
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/aries16/
Baruch College, Spring 2016
Description: Students created oral history projects on each other and also on someone else they know.
Astoria: The Falafal Squad!
Astoria: The Falafel Squad
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/astoriablvd/
Brooklyn College, Spring 2016
Description: This site explores Astoria by documenting the sites, sounds, scents, textures, and tastes that the students experienced while visiting the neighborhood. The site’s organization and content reflects the course’s emphasis on ethnographic research using the five senses. The group put together a brief but informative history of Astoria and the inclusion of demographic data is especially helpful. One suggestion to improve on the site’s exploration of Astoria might be a comparison between the quantitative data about the demographics and the students’ qualitative data (field notes, reflections, etc.). How do their experiences reflect, refute, correspond, etc. to the data?
Five Dudes Walk Into Brighton
Five Dudes Walk Into Brighton
URL: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/ethnographyatbrightonbeach/
Brooklyn College, Spring 2016
Description: This site provides a comprehensive introduction to Brighton Beach as told by the five group members. This class focused on the “five senses” as a lens to understand the neighborhood and the site content reflects this approach: audio of sounds, video interviews with residents, and field notes from the trips taken to the neighborhood.