Name: Tatjana Pavlovic

Institution: Willamette University

Language: Spanish

Status: Full-time, tenure track

Type: SummerFellowship

Type: StudentAssistant

Title: Continuation of:Spinning the Intercultural Web: Visions on Federico GarcÌa Lorca in Granada

Duration: Summer 1999

Description: This grant would be a continuation of the project funded during Spring semester of nineteen-ninetynine :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: I have begun the process of creating the web-page and have gathered a large quantity of materials which need to be organized, digitized, and placed on the web-site that now exists at http://www.mellon-nwlc.org/willamette/Granada/index.html. These materials include works by poets in Granada, with sound files of interviews and readings, as well as the multi-media web-projects by students.

I have done the necessary groundwork and have obtained copywrite clearance from the family of Lorca and the Lorca foundations, as well as from the poets and experts whose texts are currently included, as well as those who will be included in the summer grant. By the end of the summer I would have the web-page completed and ready for classroom use, as well as for use by the students when planning their foreign study experiences. 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 MartÌnez from Center of Modern Languages in Granada and Dr. LucÌa Llorente at

Berry College. Alfonso MartÌnez has an on-line journal entitled EspaÒol 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:

My Granada

Reflections and observations of each student on their day life and interaction in the street with natives of

a. Granada.
b.
c. Homestay experience
d. Problems encountered, suggestions
e. for themselves and for future participants, observations on the home
f. life of this foreign culture.
g.
h. Cultural exposure
i. Divisions such as
j. poetry, performance art, and music will allow students to experience
k. 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 GarcÌa Lorca. The objective of this course is to examine the poetry, plays and essays of GarcÌa 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: a) Spring semester (1999) in Granada Accumulating primary materials for "Lorca's Granada" and publishing students' web based projects. ) We expect student web page publishing starting in the Spring of

1999.

Timeline: We will work all summer to have the project completed by the beginning of classes in late May/early September. The project will be use-tested on a constant basis as it is uploaded to the web-page that already exists.

Amount: $5500.00

Breakdown:

Summer fellowship: $3000.00

Student assistant: $2500.00