Here is an example of my consent forms used earlier in the year for the interviews.
Consent Form A
Y N Would you like me to use a pseudonym for your name?
Y N Can I use the name of your business?
Y N Can I use the name/title of your position?
Y N Will you release all details of this interview to be used in my ethnographic study for the 2011 semester, even if it is posted on a blog?
Signature__________________________________________________________________
Date_______________________________
Name______________________________
Friday, December 9, 2011
Updated Video Script
Background – This was my original idea for the video section.
I will try to find a series of pictures or footage of a look at the Chesapeake Bay.
Starting off with a map, I will have the camera diagonally move in the northwest direction up the Chesapeake Bay into Baltimore and Annapolis demonstrating the access points for distribution.
Then, I will show a series of seafood selections that come from the bay ending on Maryland Blue crabs.
I will fill out the remaining time period (approx. half the video) around pictures showing a crab feast. This is a huge part of the region’s culture serving as a year-round Thanksgiving celebration but much like the time periods of cookouts with big families.
Even friends in high school and college schedule feasts together and purchase the ingredients or buy them steamed.
I will try to get pictures showing the dirty orange wood crab houses that steam the crabs. There is a unique color scheme I will demonstrate throughout the video to show the relation between the color of the crab when it comes out steamed with the Old Bay seasoning that drapes numerous products ranging from chips to fries.
Narration
“The Chesapeake Bay has been the driving force of Maryland and its surrounding communities since the 18th century.
Impacting other major trade and distribution points including Cape May, Philadelphia, and even Washington D.C.
Evidence of these major communities’ grass roots are found still today through sports, food, and downtown Baltimore. The true personality resides in the manufacturing and industrial revolution history of Maryland.
The foundation of hard work and nationalism is what the Chesapeake Bay community has always been about since the establishment of industrial manufacturing factories such as Bethlehem Steel and Westinghouse.
Easy settlers expanded up the Maryland coast using the Chesapeake Bay and founded communities such as Annapolis and Baltimore.
These communities took advantage of the fruits of the bay.
The bay increased access and transportation of goods throughout early America.
By the mid 1800s, cities like Baltimore and Annapolis continued to increase in structure and organization.
This paved the way for Industrial Revolution jobs around the bay surrounding major cities funded by large corporations.
Construction and Industrial manufacturing developed a personality similar to Pittsburgh, PA and the steel city.
With Maryland blue crabs being the center point of the seafood industry in the region, the hard shell resembles the thick skin developed from generations of blue-collar workers.
This feeling can be felt on the crabbing boats, with their dense thick grains developed out of hard wood from the region.
The saltiness in the air can be found in Baltimore around the Inner Harbor, around the ships and naval yards in Annapolis, and in all the communities within an hour of the bay.
Grit, hard work, long hours, camaraderie between workers, family life all developed into what Maryland is about today – referring to their high volume vacation spots such as Ocean City, MD.
Looking through several foods, we see the connection to bay food still today.
But overall, there has to be a push for environmental responsibility.
Volunteering and living family life responsibly with recycling goes back to the renewed interest in the longevity of the area and the bay.
There will always be a dependence and reference to the bay in the region.”
I will try to find a series of pictures or footage of a look at the Chesapeake Bay.
Starting off with a map, I will have the camera diagonally move in the northwest direction up the Chesapeake Bay into Baltimore and Annapolis demonstrating the access points for distribution.
Then, I will show a series of seafood selections that come from the bay ending on Maryland Blue crabs.
I will fill out the remaining time period (approx. half the video) around pictures showing a crab feast. This is a huge part of the region’s culture serving as a year-round Thanksgiving celebration but much like the time periods of cookouts with big families.
Even friends in high school and college schedule feasts together and purchase the ingredients or buy them steamed.
I will try to get pictures showing the dirty orange wood crab houses that steam the crabs. There is a unique color scheme I will demonstrate throughout the video to show the relation between the color of the crab when it comes out steamed with the Old Bay seasoning that drapes numerous products ranging from chips to fries.
Narration
“The Chesapeake Bay has been the driving force of Maryland and its surrounding communities since the 18th century.
Impacting other major trade and distribution points including Cape May, Philadelphia, and even Washington D.C.
Evidence of these major communities’ grass roots are found still today through sports, food, and downtown Baltimore. The true personality resides in the manufacturing and industrial revolution history of Maryland.
The foundation of hard work and nationalism is what the Chesapeake Bay community has always been about since the establishment of industrial manufacturing factories such as Bethlehem Steel and Westinghouse.
Easy settlers expanded up the Maryland coast using the Chesapeake Bay and founded communities such as Annapolis and Baltimore.
These communities took advantage of the fruits of the bay.
The bay increased access and transportation of goods throughout early America.
By the mid 1800s, cities like Baltimore and Annapolis continued to increase in structure and organization.
This paved the way for Industrial Revolution jobs around the bay surrounding major cities funded by large corporations.
Construction and Industrial manufacturing developed a personality similar to Pittsburgh, PA and the steel city.
With Maryland blue crabs being the center point of the seafood industry in the region, the hard shell resembles the thick skin developed from generations of blue-collar workers.
This feeling can be felt on the crabbing boats, with their dense thick grains developed out of hard wood from the region.
The saltiness in the air can be found in Baltimore around the Inner Harbor, around the ships and naval yards in Annapolis, and in all the communities within an hour of the bay.
Grit, hard work, long hours, camaraderie between workers, family life all developed into what Maryland is about today – referring to their high volume vacation spots such as Ocean City, MD.
Looking through several foods, we see the connection to bay food still today.
But overall, there has to be a push for environmental responsibility.
Volunteering and living family life responsibly with recycling goes back to the renewed interest in the longevity of the area and the bay.
There will always be a dependence and reference to the bay in the region.”
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
NALC Meeting 8
The most recent opportunity I've had to tutor was the second session on top of my previous post from 11 a.m. to 12. I was able to work with another female student that was from a foreign country in the Middle East only this time, her pronunciations were not the main concern as with the previous student. We worked on long versus short vowel sound rules along with general I before E rules. The biggest help came when she pointed out what wanted to work more with numbers such as the list with numbers through 100. We were able to shift gears mid-way through the session and focus more on words. By the end of the session, we had jumped back to the book and were creating new words and concepts on paper in order for her to expand her vocabulary and understanding even more. She was so nice during the entire session I was very elated by her enthusiasm and drive throughout the session. Very fun to work with.
Monday, November 28, 2011
NALC Meeting 7
On November 22, I was able to tutor from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Nashville location with a young woman from outside the United States. What was unique about her was her pronunciations because she grew up in a French speaking area. She understood what she was reading very well so the main concern was with her accent, particularly with not placing the "w" sound in for "s" or "t" sounds. It was very unique because when I was listening to her and watching her mouth move, I could see adjustments that she could make in order to help her pronunciation. She was a very fast learner because she understood the terms and concepts behind them as we were going through the material. Her suffixes were mostly understood besides some unique and rare words. Luckily we were able to use words that she struggled with to form new words that were hadn't seen in the book in order to give her more diversity in what she was learning. She was very receptive and motivated to learn, it was a great session.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Descriptive Draft - Use of Terms
The unique culture is classified and set apart by the vernacular of the region. With hundreds of species of food coming out of the Chesapeake Bay, there is diverse imagery given to the small towns all the way up to the major metropolitan areas such as with Baltimore or Philadelphia. Using the glossary previously posted as a reference, you can see that the common thread revolves around seafood and Northeast culture. Latin terms with science and ocean life in consideration are seen as a starting point for the environmental background and importance of the bay. This section includes terms such as Chesepiooc-Algonquian, shellfish, estuary and states Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York.
Annapolis if known for Navy and grit, paving the way for an important port - Baltimore, Maryland in 1729 established the colonial feel with brick buildings. The environment still includes a rustic feel to the crab houses and local bars of the regions. One of the subjects interviewed, Mr. Estabo described the drenched thick wood on the bar-tops of the local establishments. Buckets of oysters and assortment of chip and nut items outlined the beer mugs and glasses. Since Baltimore and Annapolis served as distribution ports to early colonial expansion, many industrial blue-collar workers remain in what was previously one of the largest source of factory jobs in the early United States. With this between the local workers came camaraderie in after hours from shifts where men from the shipyards and industrial manufacturing plants would make their way down to the nearest bar to spend their earnings. Decades lasted and generations lived through this experience. With more technology and access given to boats and fisherman, crabs and other seafood items became more and more prevalent in the region. In a way, as Estabo describes, salty foods define the region. Grit and blue-collar work outline the roots of the region, felt in between the cold windy brick buildings and cobblestone streets.
Annapolis if known for Navy and grit, paving the way for an important port - Baltimore, Maryland in 1729 established the colonial feel with brick buildings. The environment still includes a rustic feel to the crab houses and local bars of the regions. One of the subjects interviewed, Mr. Estabo described the drenched thick wood on the bar-tops of the local establishments. Buckets of oysters and assortment of chip and nut items outlined the beer mugs and glasses. Since Baltimore and Annapolis served as distribution ports to early colonial expansion, many industrial blue-collar workers remain in what was previously one of the largest source of factory jobs in the early United States. With this between the local workers came camaraderie in after hours from shifts where men from the shipyards and industrial manufacturing plants would make their way down to the nearest bar to spend their earnings. Decades lasted and generations lived through this experience. With more technology and access given to boats and fisherman, crabs and other seafood items became more and more prevalent in the region. In a way, as Estabo describes, salty foods define the region. Grit and blue-collar work outline the roots of the region, felt in between the cold windy brick buildings and cobblestone streets.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
NALC Meeting 6
On Tuesday November 1st at 11 a.m. through 12 I was able to work with an International student from Asia. He told me about his opportunities working at a new job in a pizza place here in the United States. He was eager to get started on his fifth session so we dove right in. I felt that right off the bat he had an understanding of what he was reading, the only thing was a few missed words here and there. We walked through individual words and stay on about two pages of material for the first 20 minutes or so reading. He was able to then switch to writing and spelling. His quick understanding of fill-in-the-blank terms caused us to talk about the meanings of the word which provided some humor throughout the session on both parts. The fun part was pronunciation because that was the main focus the student wanted to work on. After running through all of the words on Lessons 2-Lessons 5, we walked through numbers 1-100 as we did in my previous session. We had to work first on syllables and second on basic mouth and tongue movements for word pronunciation. His main struggle was with endings of "ist" or "st" because he would add a "ta" at the end of it. Even when we slowed it down. This part was very fun for a teacher because I was able to quickly find ways to sound out words uniquely by saying to the student "first sat "eh" "sst" and then I would follow behind it and wave my arms and say to the student (stop, abrupt, it just ends right there). This experience was hilarious but overall both me and the student were laughing after 15 minutes of it because he could finally pronounce the terms correctly after we broke everything down more and more. With "is" the student and I looked through the differences in soft vowels and long vowels. As we went back to the text for the last 20 minutes, we were able to read through sentences and work on rhythm as well as overall word pronunciation knowledge. Using a notepad, as was used in all my previous sessions, gave me a quick reference where I could write out and explain words and sounds to students. Since this student was international, this especially worked. He also pulled out his iPhone and searched through his own language's interpretation of two early words, polite and something else I cannot remember. He did understand and enjoy my interaction. I liked how we really worked on his fundamentals and stuck to the lesson plan. Overall, It was a great session.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)