name: Harry Velez
Quinones
institution: University of Puget Sound
language: Spanish
status: Full-time, tenure track
project:
title: Orfeo/Orpheus: A Collective of Expression.
duration: Summer 1998 through Spring 1999 and beyond...
description: Brief Description of Project (200-250 words):
Orfeo/Orpheus will be an online bilingual journal dedicated to the promotion
of language, culture, literature, music, and the visual arts. Open to students,
faculty, staff, of the NWLC, and also the general public, Orfeo/Orpheus hopes
to be, as its title proclaims, a collective of expression.
Work towards the pilot version of Orfeo/Orpheus has been taking place during
the spring semester of 1998. Students in my Spanish 202D class have received
training in Claris Home Page and WS FTP to prepare them for a final web-based
project. They have been asked to become "information providers" in Spanish.
The idea behind this exercise is to demonstrate in practice the extent to which
their language skills at the intermediate level can already lead them to practical
applications in this realm. Foreign language skills, personal interests, and
web-based technologies come together in this publishing effort.
A call for submissions to Orfeo/Orpheus will go out later this semester. Work
carried out over the summer will make possible a Fall 1998 launching of this
on-line bilingual journal.
outcome: Statement of the Purposes and Desired Outcome:
We hope that Orfeo/Orpheus will play several roles as a Mellon funded project.
Some of these are:
1) Showcase of student generated web-based projects. Students in my Spanish
202 class (intermediate 2nd. semester) will be trained in webpage design. They
will be responsible for the creation of a semester long project for possible
publication in Orfeo/Orpheus.
2) Forum for creative projects carried out by students of Spanish language,
culture, and/or literature in any of the NWLC schools. The lessons learned in
the Spanish 202 pilot program will be shared with NWLC schools. It is hoped
that other NWLC faculty and students will carry out similar projects.
3) Point of entry into multimedia educational technology for interested non-language
faculty at the NWLC. Professors will be invited to submit samples of their work
(essays, creative writing, visual arts, music, etc.) for presentation in Orfeo/Orpheus.
As a "friendly" face in the realm of multimedia ventures, it is our hope that
Orfeo/Orpheus will attract the attention of faculty members who may be technophobes
but drawn to a more traditional medium such as a journal.
4) Vehicle for contacts between the NWLC and special communities. Orfeo/Orpheus
may serve as a way to develop collaborative projects with high school students
in the NWLC areas in the spirit of the Mellon Foundation.
5) In addition, Orfeo/Orpheus can be a visible, attractive, and compelling example
of the achievements of the NWLC. Alumni, donors, interested foundations will
have yet one more example of the benefits of multimedia technology in higher
education.
timeline: Brief Time Line, including when and how the project will be use-tested:
Having had a unit off this spring semester has allowed me to work intensively
in the Orfeo/Orpheus pilot. I have been able to recruit a talented student assistant,
Steve Leith, and to secure a Middlebury Student Training Grant for a second
very gifted student, Nick Reynolds.
Nick and I have met a several times to discuss planning, design, and launching
of Orfeo/Orpheus. We will be sending out a call for submissions later in the
term.
My colleague at Willamette University, Tatjana Pavlovic, and Nick Reynolds and
Steven Leith, Student Assistants, will be co-editing Orfeo/Orpheus with me.
Mark Otis, Multimedia Consultant at Puget Sound, and Shelley Owen, Technical
Consultant at Puget Sound's Office of Information Systems, have enthusiastically
embraced this project and assured me their support.
The pilot version of Orfeo/Orpheus ought to be on-line by late spring 1998.
Additional intensive work to be carried out during the summer will lead to the
official launch of the journal in the fall semester of 1998.
amount: $8,200 (See breakdown below)
breakdown: Amount requested:
YEAR 1
Faculty Summer Grant: $3,000.
YEAR 2
Fall 98 Steven Leith $2,100