Week 1: Monday July 2 - Sunday July 8
Week 2: Monday July 9 - Sunday July 15
Week 3: Monday July 16 - Sunday July 22
Week 4: Monday July 23 - Sunday July 29
Week 5: Back in Morgantown, WV
WEEK 1
7/2 - Monday
930 - Bus to UFP
1000 - Welcome and Introduction by Professor Rui Torres.
1130 - Introduction to Project 1: Drift Map
Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things. - Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet
By July 10, each student will create a drift map of Porto, using the Google Maps API. Readings from MacCannell help us conceptualize the experience of being in another country, while Debord and Perec provide the initial framework for the drift or walk in the city. Our encounter with Porto is necessarily structured by our role as tourist. This role is a way of experiencing and representing – and therefore of writing - the foreignness and difference of the city. The drift map project asks you to approach this experience and representation from a different angle. Firstly, to approach the city through an itinerary not determined by the role of the tourist but through your individual movements and impulses. Second, to approach the city as a designed and lived environment. Thirdly, to use digital technology as the media that represents this other angle through Porto. You will wander through Porto with a partner for a pre-determined times. Wherever you stop or wherever you feel the impulse, you will write your impressions into your laptop or other mobile media, and you will take photos and videos. The genre of these reflections can be observational, describing what you see; or reflective, thinking about the experience; or narrative, telling the story of the place and the walk; or could take another form. Each of you will assemble and place your gathered materials onto a Google map using the API, creating a “version” of Porto.
1200 - Discuss McCannell, The Tourist, chapter 2 [online pdf].
1300 - Lunch
1400 - Portuguese language/culture class.
1530 - Continue introduction to project.
Examples: Google Maps Case Studies, Google Siteseeing and Google Maps Mania, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Joyce Walks, New York Songlines, Murmur , The Organic City
1600 Google Maps API Basics: getting an API Key, making your first map
1700 - Free time
1830 - 1700 Bus back to Foz.. Dinner on your own.
7/3 Tuesday
930 - Bus to UFP1000 - Discuss Debord, “Theory of the Dérive” [pdf], Perec, “The Street” [pdf], and Hart, “A New Way of Walking”
1100 - Google Maps API in depth: events, controls, styles
1300 - Lunch at Confeitaria do Bolhao
1400 - Tour Aliados, Majestic Café, etc.
1500 - Tour on your own (“drift”).
2000 - Dinner at Verso em Pedra.
2130 - Bus back to Foz
7/4 Wednesday
930 - Bus to UFP1000 - Tour Se and Mercado do Bolhao and Rua de Santa Catarina.
1300 - Lunch at Mercado do Bolhao.
1400 - Tour on your own (“drift”).
1800 - Tour Carmo Church and Rua de Cedofeita.
2000 - Dinner at Bugo Art Burgers (4th of July!).
2130 - Bus back to Foz.
7/5 Thursday
930 - Bus to UFP.1000 - Discuss Morville, “Ambient Findability”, Rueb, “Itinerant” and “Drift”, Blast Theory, and Trash Track
1100 - Google Maps API in depth: overlays, layers, map types.
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Portuguese language/culture class.
1530 - Introduction to Po.Ex project by Pedro Reis.
1700 - Tour Igreja dos Clerigos and Livraria Lello.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/6 Friday
930 - Bus to UFP.1000 - Discuss McCannell, The Tourist, chapters 4-6 [online pdf]. Topics: the semiotics of tourism, the tourist gaze, tourist markers, etc.
1100 - Work on project.
1300 - Lunch
1400 - Free time
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/7 Saturday
Free time
7/8 Sunday
1100 - Meet at Fundacao Serralves (free Sundays). Tour Museum.
1400 - Free time
WEEK 2
7/9 Monday
930 - Bus to UFP
1000 - Discuss tourist representations of Porto, including Go Oporto,
Tripadvisor, Wikitravel, Visit Porto, Porto Tourism, Lonely Planet, Daily Telegraph, New York Times
1100 Discuss web page design for mobile devices; the culture and commerce of Google maps, Google maps vs. Bing maps, geocaching and waymarking, Encounter, CityChase, Parallel Kingdom
1200 - Work on project
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Portuguese language/culture class
1530 - Work on Po.Ex project with Pedro Reis
1700 - Free time
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
Link to GoogleDoc on repairing map images
7/10 Tuesday
930 - Bus to UFP.1000 - Present and reflect on Project 1.
1100 - Discuss McGonigal, Reality is Broken Chapters 7-8 [pdf], Foursquare, SCVNGR
1200 - Discuss Project 2: Many Portos
By July 16, each student - working in two teams - will produce a proposal for communicating about Porto and the summer program to other WVU students. The plan will be based on a critique of the existing presentations of Porto in tourist materials. What other approaches are possible? The proposal may employ narrative, social-media, locative, and/or game-based approaches. It must clearly describe how you will use these approaches. It must include a detailed description of how the plan will be coordinated across media. It must also include a detailed timeline and a specific description of the deliverable. The teams will present the proposals on July 16, with a single one chosen for implementation and development throughout the remainder of the month.
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Tour Igreja Sao Francisco (look for geocaches).
1600 - Tour on your own
TBD - Dinner at A Grade
1830 - Bus back to Foz.
7/11 Wednesday
930 - Bus to UFP.1000 - Train to Guimaraes.
1100 - Arrive Guimaraes.
1230 - Tour Castelo.
1300 - Lunch at Cervejaria Martins.
1400 - Tour old town.
1530 - Walk to Penha and take funicular.
1800 - Return to Guimaraes.
1900 - Return via train to Porto
2130 - Bus back to Foz, dinner on your own.
7/12 Thursday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Discuss Project 2 and McGonigal, Reality is Broken Chapters 9-10 [pdf], C2BK, TSDO, World Without Oil, 42 Entertainment. Topics: ARGs and viral methods.
1200 - Beginning understandings of Responsive Design [link], Smith's 960 Grid System is the source of the FILE we'll begin with in class[link] and What is Front End Development? [link] and finally my sample PSD file for this site [link]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work on Po.Ex project with Pedro Reis.
1700 - Free time.
TBD - Dinner at Antunes.
1830 - Bus back to Foz.
7/13 Friday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Introduction to project management and Requirements Engineering and Agile Software Development [pdf]
1100 - Work on project proposals.
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Tour Bolsa and the Torre de Clerigos.
1830 - Bus back to Foz . Dinner on your own.
7/14 Saturday
845 - Bus to Sao Bento train station.
945 - Train to Viana do Castelo.
1150 - Arrive Viana.
1300 - Lunch.
1830 - Dinner.
2026 - Train back to Porto.
2205 - Arrive Porto. Bus back to Foz.
7/15 Sunday
Free time.
WEEK 3
7/16 Monday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Project 2 Proposals: presentations and decisions.
1100 - Discuss, Carr, Is the Internet Making Us Stupid? [link] and beginning Responsive Design with Media Queries [link] Sign up for an account with Stock Exchange for free/open access images [link]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Portuguese language/culture class
1530 - Work with Rui Torres.
1700 - Free time.
TBD - Dinner at O Muro.
1830 - Bus back to Foz.
7/17 Tuesday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Discuss, Pinker, Mind Over Mass Media [link] and Shirky, Why Abundance is Good: A Reply to Nick Carr [link]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work with Rui Torres.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/18 Wednesday
930 Bus to UFP.
1000 Beginning Responsive Design with Media Queries [link]and How to Create a 3 Column Layout with CSS [link], Simple Tutorials on CSS Floats - at a minimum read 'General Info' and 'Tutorial 1'. Most all of what you need to know about positioning elements with CSS can be found in these tutorials [link]
1300 Lunch.
1400 Work/free time.
1630 Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/19 Thursday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Continue Responsive Design with Media Queries [link]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work with Rui Torres.
1700 - Free time. Dinner on your own.
1830 - Bus back to Foz.
7/20 Friday
820 - Bus to Campanha Train Station.
855 - Train to Coimbra.
1046 - Arrive Coimbra. Tour with Manuel Portela, including: University, the Botanical gardens, the Old Cathedral [Sé Velha], the Church of Santa Cruz, the Museum Machado de Castro, the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha.
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Continue tour
Overnight in Coimbra at Hotel Ibiz
Additional info on the trip - the Via Monumenta app and a YouTube video on the Via Monumenta app for Coimbra
7/21 Saturday
900 Bus to Lousa
1700 Bus to Coimbra
1930 Train to Porto
2100 Arrive at Sao Bento Train Station
7/22 Sunday
1000 - Meet at Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis (free Sundays).
1300 - Lunch at Capa Negra.
1430 - Tour Palacio de Cristal.
1600 - Tour Museu do Vinho do Porto (free Sundays).
1800 - Visit Ponte de Arrabida.
1900 - Return to Foz. Dinner on your own.
WEEK 4
7/23 Monday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Discuss Marling, How 'American' is Globalization? Preface, Chapter 1 Part I [pdf]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work with Rui Torres.
1700 - Work and lab time.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/24 Tuesday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Discuss Marling, How 'American' is Globalization? Part II [pdf]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work and lab time.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/25 Wednesday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Work and lab time.
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work and lab time on your own.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/26 Thursday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Marling, How 'American' is Globalization? Chapter 2 [pdf] Continue Responsive Design with Media Queries [link]
1300 - Lunch.
1400 - Work with Rui Torres.
1700 - Work and lab time.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/27 Friday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Marling, How 'American' is Globalization? Conclusion [pdf]
Plus, Responsive Design with Media Queries [link]
1300 - Lunch.
1430 - Tour Casa da Musica.
1830 - Bus back to Foz. Dinner on your own.
7/28 Saturday
Free time. Optional: train ride on the Douro from Porto to Pocinho.
7/29 Sunday
Free Time
7/30 Monday
930 - Bus to UFP.
1000 - Finish Responsive Design with Media Queries [link]
1300 - Finalize portfolios, projects.
1400 - Lunch.
1500 - Work and lab time.
1830 - Bus back to Foz.
7/31 Tuesday
600 - Taxi to Airport.
WEEK 5
8/6 Monday
1700 - Final Portfolios Due [emailed portfolio URLs emailed to Professors Baldwin and Ballentine]
FINAL PROJECT DETAILS:
What should you deliver to us at the end of the course?
By 5pm on Monday August 6, you should email the url(s) of your portfolio to both Sandy and Brian. We should also receive a url for the group project. A single version of the group project must be accessible on one of your sites. It could be copied to all of the sites, but our concern is to receive the url for the version you - as a group - consider to be final.
What should you include in your group project?
You already have a clear plan for the group project. Of course, this project has an explicit purpose: to inform other WVU students about the Portugal program and to encourage (persuade) them to sign up. We look forward to seeing how you put together these materials.
What should you include in your individual site (on the community space)?
Your individual site is a portfolio of the materials you created during your time here. You should pick and choose - include anything you think is pertinent. At the least, you should include the following webpages:
1) A home page.
2) A page presenting your map with the texts and images from your drifting.
3) A page presenting your photos in a slideshow or similar presentation.
4) A page presenting your reflective writings.
You may want to include other pages as well. Your Flash/SoundSlides project should be on your individual site, presumably in a page of its own. What else? A contact page? A links page? The pages should link together and allow readers clear navigation from one page to the other.
Finally, the Flash/SoundSlides project developed with Rui should be available through your individual site as well as through the group project page.
