Learning and Teaching

Here it is! The first episode of Rapport: The Informal Ethnographer Podcast.

As I was editing it, I noticed a number of flaws. For instance, there are several things I mispronounced there are some things I might have wanted to take out of it. But I maintain my RERO principle and I’m posting it as-is.

As this is the “enhanced podcast” version, with chapter markers, you can skip around as you please, between different sections. I should post MP3 files for the different sections but the official release will always be with the enhanced podcast.

My shownotes were in OmniOutliner. I cleaned them up a bit but it’s probably still obscure for anybody else…. 😉
Apart from the jingle (that I created with CCmixter content), I’ve used funky/blues impr. hungarian shepherds’ flute. 100bpm by furkosbot for tags.

Presentation
- Rapport: The Informal Ethnographer Podcast (RIEP)
- Inaugural Episode
- Hello all
- I’m Alex, your informal ethnographer
- welcome to the inaugural episode of rapport: the informal ethnographer podcast
- today
  - about me
  - ethnography
  - informality
  - and this podcast
Whoami
- An informal ethnographer with formal training in ethnographic disciplines
  - Informal
  - Casual
  - Happy-go-lucky
  - Friendly
  - Playful
  - Anti-snob
  - Nobody important
- A semi-nomadic French-speaking ethnographer from Montreal
  - Moved 22 times from December 2000 to April 2008
  - French-speaker from Montreal
    - Québécois and Swiss
    - Not WASP
- Generalist
  - creative generalist
Interests
- Informal
  - Coffee
    - Diversity
    - Homeroasting
    - Brewing methods
    - Growing
    - Cafés
  - Beer
    - Brewing
    - Experimentation
    - Craft beer culture
  - Music
  - Social media experience
- Formal
  - Semiotics
  - Language
  - Music
  - Mali
Training
- Informal
  - Learning by doing
  - Constructionism
  - Self-learning
  - DIY
  - University of the Streets Café
- Formal
  - College
    - Defending the Cegep System
  - University
    - As student
      - UdeM
      - IUB
    - As teacher
Experience
- Ethnographic experience
  - Informal
    - Keep observing
      - Bored at party
    - Food
      - Sharing
    - Geek culture
      - Beer geeks
      - Coffee
      - Tech geeks
    - Second-hand
      - Projects from students
  - Formal
    - Mali
      - Madou Diarra
    - Private-sector ethnography
    - Projects as student
- Social media experience
  - Mailing-lists
  - Blogs
  - Social networks
    - Facebook
  - Geek crowds
  - Microblogging
- Podcasting experience
  - Listening/watching
  - Observing
  - Course podcasts
  - Recordings
Motivations
- Fun
- Learn by doing
  - Participant-observation
- Own approach
- Connections
- Visibility
  - Approach
  - Myself
Ethnography
- Why ethnography?
  - Realization on ethnographic disciplines
  - Avoid four-fields anthropology
  - Allows for extension outside antropology
  - Became “freelance ethnographer”
- Defining ethnography
  - Descriptive approach to cultural diversity
  - Anthropology?
  - Method?
  - Qualitative
  - Participant-observation
Informality
- Casual
- Personal
- Modest
- Informal concepts
  - Bricolage
  - Tinker
  - Dabbling
  - Dilettante
  - Hacking
  - Amateur
  - Playfulness
    - Heady topics
    - Huizinga on serious and play
- Informal Podcast
  - Trying out
    - Link to participant-observation
  - Podcasting
    - Independence
    - Easy to make and distribute
    - Audience/niche
    - Lydon’s Open Source
    - Listen at will
- Lack of formal requirements
  - Genres
  - Not lecture
  - “Without footnotes”
  - Beyond narrative
- Informal language and tone
  - Sociolinguistics
  - Politeness
    - Call people by name
    - T/V
    - First name
    - Nickname
  - Proximity
  - Assumed rapport
  - Shared knowledge
  - Acronyms
Editorial policy
- Focus on ethnography
  - Perspective on ethnography
    - Approach
    - Diverse disciplines
    - Extends to ethnographic disciplines
- Themed
  - From practical to theoretical
  - Overlap
  - Topics
  - Themes
  - Revisit
- Not time-sensitive
  - Discuss news through blog
- Format
  - Variable
  - Won’t promise
- Features
  - Themes, topics, categories for episodes
  - Interviews
  - Feedback
  - Possible guest and/or co-hosts
- Blog
  - with shownotes
  - Other files
- Versions
  - MP3
  - Enhanced podcast
- Duration
  - Elastic time
  - Chapters
  - Snippets?
- Frequency (monthly)
  - Second Monday
  - On blog with shownotes
  - May post advance
    - May even stash up a few episodes
    - Maintain my official posting date
    - Other things on blog
Interaction
- Blog
- Email: alex@informalethnographer.com
- Identica/Twitter
Site
- Adding content
- Pseudo-FAQ
- Pages about courses

RIEP3: Fieldworkers (MP3)

RIEP3: Fieldworkers

RIEP3: Fieldworker (Draft MP3)

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