Final Student Ethnography Examples

When looking at the three examples of final ethnography projects, my final ethnography contains elements from both Kayla's and Grace's. While the content of Grace's is most like mine, mine looks most like Kayla's. Grace wrote her ethnography on the Newman Library, which is like mine because I did mine on a library as well. The approach she took and conclusions she made were of course different from what I found. The way she set her website up was the best of the three, breaking up her ethnography among pages. It was a very creative way of setting everything up and it is visually appealing. The way Kayla presented her ethnography was similar to how I chose to set mine up. I broke up the information I had wrote using different subheadings. Though she does keep everything on one page like me, she breaks it up using subheadings. This is a very effective way of organizing your final ethnography.

Student Example

I found that Chantelle's student example of the lay of the land paper was very good and enjoyable to read. When going on her portfolio website, the document was in a font very difficult to read, which was a big downfall of her website. But the paper itself was very good. Chantelle's site of the daycare is a great one and would be really fun and exciting to go to and observe. She really made her experience going there come to life and you can really picture what is going on throughout her day there. You can picture the kids and you can feel the energy they give off. She overall does a really strong job at painting the image of what the environment is like at this daycare, as she describes what is around her. It makes me think of when i was in pre-school and the energy that was present while at such a young age really shines through in this essay. You get a sense of Miss Ouellette as the teacher and how she creates this friendly and fun learning environment for the kids. Some of the kids she talks about and even the teacher I can picture in my head and I smile because they are really friendly. It makes me think about how important pre-school, kindergarten, and daycare even are to kids and their childhoods. At that age you learn to interact and be social, as well as have fun. Choosing this for her site was a really great choice for Chantelle and I'm sure it is something she enjoys working on and going to observe. Her final paper will probably be very enjoyable to read. I also thought it was a wise idea that she included some pictures of the daycare at the top - the white building she described where she "couldn't be at the right place" and the inside itself. Overall it is really good work!

Her website: http://chantellesportfolio.weebly.com/