to talk about what they know best, because you'll find that the final product for the class is better, than if you started from scratch and didn't have the time to devote. I've been involved with policy debater for 10 years now; 4 years in high school, 6 on the college level, and the last two years as a coach. We are our own culture, of that I've always been sure, but I never felt incredibly compelled to show everyone else that culture, until we were thrust into the limelight two years ago for an after round discussion about a debate went wrong at one of our final tournaments of the year (CEDA Nationals.)
A little bit about that incident can be read about here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/14/national/main4350183.shtml
as well as here:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/14/debate
I don't know that I think either one of those articles is really "representative" of what happened, but they provide an outside look in on the community that opened my eyes to what others think of us, and forced me to defend the activity on more than one occasion to people I knew who saw the video and didn't know much about debate.
For my "big project" in Digital Ethnography then, I'm going to investigate the debate, weaving the media uproar, the voices of the community, and the images of debate that exist on the web in hopes of conveying a stronger, more cohesive (and certainly I hope, more representative) view of what it's like to be a part of the NDT/CEDA debate community.
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