Template for Activities/Workshops in Ireland:

As a workshop leader please

·         do not print this out but fill it in digitally

·         use the present tense in descriptions

·         make sure you fill in as many answers as possible

·         please replace the boxes p with an X

·         send the filled-in description of activity to Thomas at:
Berger@inter-research.de

Some of the blanks can be filled in later, please regard this as the “growing ID-Card” of the activities. After the excursion we will use these to help with the final report

Title[1] of Activity

James Joyce as a hypertext writer?

Description[2]

Exploring early Hypertext notions - visit to the Joyce Centre, with a special input by Susana Tosca and to get to know one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

Subtitle[3]

 

Leader[4]

John Tangney (Joyce Centre Dublin), Hans-Hermann Groppe (Coord.)

Assistant[5]

Susana Tosca, Madrid

Workshop specialist[6]

 

Time[7]

Sa., 10.00 – 11.30

Place

James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George Street, Dublin 1

Materials needed

Writing utensils

category I   SMALL INTERCULTURAL TEAMS

1.       no more than 6 participants?

yes x

Till 18 participants (3 groups)

2.       at least 3 nationalities

yes x

 

3.       at least from 3 stations

yes x

 
Participants   Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
 

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4.       which activities facilitate intercultural communication?

Talking about the reception and meaning of James Joyce in the participating countries and the reception of experimental literatur in the internet

category II CONNECTION TO THE WEB STORY

1.       activity is already included in web stories

yes x

no p

There are links in the Hamburg stories

2.       results will be included in web stories

yes p

no p

Not sure now

3.       is extra technical support needed?

yes p

no x

 


category III CREATIVE USE OF NEW MEDIA

1.       will the new media be used in a creative way?

yes p

no p

describe how:

2.       are they essential to the activity?

yes p

no p

describe why:

3.       will the participants learn to use the new media?

yes p

no p

describe how:

4.       do participants learn s.th. about the notion of new media?

yes p

no p

describe what:

category IV ACTIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

1.       will participants explore in an active and creative way?

yes p

no p

describe how:

2.       are they sensitized to parallels to their own home country?

yes p

no p

describe how:

3.       are there any innovative forms of experiencing culture (as opposed to conventional “guided tour”)?

yes p

no p

To visit the Joyce Centre as an important cultural centre of Ireland with our questionnaire - you can also say: how modern is a writers museum in times of  New Media and what  can you learn from tradition at this special place - is unconventional

category V BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY

1.       will the participants share their own specialist/cultural backgrounds?

yes p

no p

The visit ist also a opportunity to discuss the meaning of Joyce to Ireland and to the literature in general

2.       will there be a clear benefit for the community?

yes p

no p

describe how:

3.       is the value of the benefit in relation of the learning experience of the participants?

yes p

no p

describe how:

If an activity does not meet all criteria, this does not mean it cannot be done, of course. Activities should “largely meet the criteria”. Often other participants have good ideas how to include further aspects which are still missing.

Good luck

Laurence



[1] should be a gripping marketing title (no more than 5 words)

[2] no more than 200 words

[3] can be a longer, more academic and descriptive title

[4] any participant can be leader of a workshop

[5] assistant must be from a group/nationality different from the leader

[6] e.g. the photographer in the photo workshop (external specialists)

[7] regular times at the moment are either Mon/Tue/Thur/Fri 10-13 or Mon/Tue/Thur 14:30-17:30 or Wed all day