Fall 1998 Proposal
name: Tatjana Pavlovic

institution: Willamette University

language: Spanish

status: Full-time, tenure track

type:
SummerFellowship
StudentAssistant
SoftwareGrants
TravelFellowship

title: Spinning the Intercultural Web: Visions on Federico García Lorca in Granada duration: Spring Semester(1999) in Granada

description: The purpose of this project is to collect and organize materials while I am on-site director for Willamette's Semester-in-Spain Program in Granada: And, then to incorporate them into web-pages and interactive learning modules. As outlined below, these materials will be used to enrich the experience of those students studying in Spain by getting them to reflect on and describe their experiences, which will also be used--as can the whole website we will create--to orient future participants in the off-campus study experience. outcome: This project has two primary goals. The first is to develop course material for my upper level course entitled "Lorca's Granada" that will serve as a model for future course development. The second goal is to enable students to record their experience and organize their observations, allowing a maximization of the potential for cultural education during their time abroad.

These goals would be achieved through cooperation with Orfeo, a preexisting collective of expression that, in their words, is an "online bilingual journal dedicated to the promotion of language, culture, music, and the visual arts." My conception of this Granada project fits perfectly with the stated goal of this publication, allowing a seemless integration into an already succesful system that will allow for mutual support and a consistancy of presentation.

In addition to working with the creators of Orfeo at University of Puget Sound, I am in collaboration with Professor Alfonso Martínez from Center of Modern Languages in Granada and Dr. Lucía Llorente at Berry College. Alfonso Martínez has an on-line journal entitled Español Version Original dedicated to issues pertinent to foreign students in Spain and Dr. Llorente specializes in linguistics and second language acquisition process, with an emphasis on language and culture learning with Internet technologies.

  1. Students' web based projects:
    Students will design and create individual web projects that will reflect their unique experiences in Granada. I will provide support for these projects in two primary ways. Firstly, through my connections in the Granada art world I will insure that students have a strong base of support for their cultural observations by enabling interviews and direct interaction with local poets, actors, and musicians. Secondly, with my laptop and digital camera, in conjunction with the software and student technology specialist provided by this grant, I will provide the technological support to allow for full customization of their products with various elements unique to each student's process of creation and exploration.

    These final projects that the students produce will consist of three primary elements. I will give students lists of questions and ideas for output in the three following broad categories:

    1. My Granada
      Reflections and observations of each student on their day life and interaction in the street with natives of Granada.
    2. Homestay experience
      Problems encountered, suggestions for themselves and for future participants, observations on the home life of this foreign culture.
    3. Cultural exposure
      Divisions such as poetry, performance art, and music will allow students to experience the rich artistic history of this region, creating a fuller understanding of the daily existence they observe around them.

    Every student's project would include elements from all three of these broad categories in different amounts and degrees, totaling up to a unique final project for each unique experience.

  2. Developing course materials for "Lorca's Granada:"

    No one captured Granada's spirit, its past and its present as well as Federico García Lorca. The objective of this course is to examine the poetry, plays and essays of García Lorca in their sociohistorical context, focusing on the inpact on Lorca's life in his early years in Granada, his student life at Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, and the Spanish Civil War. But above all Lorca's Granada would be the core of this course. Students will be able to discover all of Granada's wonders through his work.

    The course will be created as a series of X-media templates using all the audio and video materials collected in Granada. The purpose of this project is to collect and organize materials while I am on-site Director for Willamette's Semester-in-Spain Program in Granada: And, then to incorporate them into web-pages and interactive learning modules. As outlined below, these materials will be used to enrich the experience of those students studying in Spain by getting them to describe and reflect on their experiences, which will also be used--as can the whole website we will create--to orient future participants in the off-campus study experience.

    Final publications will be on the Orfeo system.

timeline:

  1. Spring semester (1999) in Granada Accumulating primary materials for "Lorca's Granada" and publishing students' web based projects.
  2. We expect student web page publishing starting in the Spring of 1999.
  3. Spring semester (2000) I will start teaching "Lorca's Granada" using the materials collected and created in Granada.

amount: 7200.00

breakdown:

  1. Summer (Spring) fellowship
    3000.00
  2. Student Assistant Fellowship
    Daniel Stillwaggon has worked for many years in the role of technical support both for Willamette's instructional technology department, and for various computer firms. He is also fluent in Spanish and is a crucial part of this project.
    2500.00
  3. Travel fellowship
    Funds for myself and Daniel Stillwaggon (my technical support) to various necessary locations around Granada and greater Spain. This is needed to bring real world examples to the classroom to provide support for my instruction and creation of templates.
    1000.00
  4. Software
    700.00