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"By definition, an object is
a scuplture, because it is a three-dimensional object..."
(Frank Ghery)
Ashlar masonry
"Masonry includes all construction
made up of masonry units (stone, clay bricks, concrete blocks, etc)
and mortar"
(J.I. Davison)
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ACTIVITIES
week 1 / week
2 / week 3 / week 4 / week
5 / week 6
week 7 / week
8 / week 9 / week 10 / week
11 / week 12
Week 1
Tuesday:
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Check rooms and schedules
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Syllabus
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Assigning readings and presentations (information
will be posted to Moodle)
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Opening an e-mail account if not available yet,
and getting a Yahoo ID
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Surfing around course Web page
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For next class: bring a photo (format jpg or gif)
on a CD or floppy
Thursday:
Getting to know the virtual learning environment (made with Moodle)
- Register to Moodle.
Read the tutorial for registration
- Edit your profile and add your photo
- Surf around the environment and the course Web pages, and ask
all the questions that come to your mind ;-)
- In Moodle
go to the "Sharing with Dafne" journal, create your own
and write a short paragraph about your expectations for this course.
- In Moodle
do the activities about:
- Definitions of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Quotes on Archictecture and Urban Planning
- Pre-discussion: Go to our podcasting
blog, and listen to what I have recorded.
- Get into Yahoo Messenger and discuss with 2 other classmates about
"the needs to be aware of in architecture /urban planning (regarding
people -physiological, psychological and sociological-
city/buildings, and context).
- Save the chat log and post it to Moodle (in the forum created
for that purpose)
- Read your fellow classmates chatlogs and react to their comments.
Week 2
Tuesday - Thursday
Week 3
Tuesday
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Creating a blog:
- Look at the blogs created by architects and urban planners
around the world
- Select a provider for your blog (blogspot or LiveJournal)
- Follow appropriate tutorial to create your blog (in Moodle)
- Post the URL to your blog in the wiki created in Moodle
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- Get together with an architecture student in YM. If you are an
urban planning student and vice versa. Discuss about this quote:
"Architects and planners used to argue about the roles
of their two professions"
- Save the chatlog and post it to the forum "chatlogs about
the purpose of architectue and urban planning discussion" in
Moodle (week 3).
- Do the 2 readings in Moodle: Architecture students read: Puposes
of Architecture and urban planning students read: "Urban
Design as a Career".
- Go back to the podcasting
blog, and individually make comments on these issues:
- what in your opinion is the real purpose of architecture and
Urban planning?
- How does Caracas stand in terms of both, architecture and
urban planning?
Thursday
- Join the "Academic Writing" Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/academic_writing/)
and do the online interactive tutorial. You will meet students
from all over the world who are using that group. Once registered,
introduce yourself to the list, and go to the files section where
you will find the tutorials. Write down your scores in the "Sharing
with Dafne" journal in Moodle.
- Go to your recently created blog, and write your conclusions
of what is needed to write a good paragraph. Try to use what you
have learned so your paragraph is well written.
- Make comments to the paragraphs written by 2 of your classmates.
Week 4: Materials
Tuesday
Today we will catch up with the activities
from the previous weeks, before starting with week 4 activities.
Thursday
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Go to Moodle (week 4), and read the
text "Stone"
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Create a brain map. What is a brain
map? How are they created? What are they good for? How many kinds
of brain maps are there? The answers to all these questions can
be found here: http://www.graphic.org/
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You may use SmartDraw
(select, SmartDraw 7- the free one- There is a Suit edition which
you can use for free for 30 days). A tutorial can be seen if you
click on "show me" on the upper part of the screen.
However, you can draw your brain map in Word, Power Point or using
any other tool.
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Take a screenshot of the map, save it as jpg or
gif, and post it to your blog (you may need to upload it to Flickr
before)
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Using your brain map, write a paragraph (remember
the tutorial on how to write a paragraph.
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Add the paragraph to your blog. You might want to
add some images of stone buildings, too.
Week 5
Tuesday / Thursday
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Using Audacity
record your paragraph and save it as MP3, This recording will be
posted to the podcasting blog (while you do the previous activites,
I will be inviting each of you to be part of this blog so you can
upload your own podcasts.
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Learn to upload your audio files to Geocities.
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Go to the Glossary in Moodle and copy 2 or 3 words
that you learned in the reading
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Go to Moodle and open the reading
"Brick" and do the activities. For post-reading
select one of the tasks described in the document. (there is no
worksheet for this reading).
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Go to the Glossary and copy 2 or 3 new words from
the text.
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Those presenting in week 6, talk to me.
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Look for the text " Iron & Steel"
in Moodle (week 5) , read it and:
- Get in groups of 3 and discuss:
- What are the advantages of iron and steel over stone
and brick.
- What is the importance of steel and iron after the 20th.
Century.
- What are the characteristics of steel
- What are the disadvantages of steel and what solutions
have been found.
- What is welding? What is its importance? It's characteristics.
- What shapes are formed with steel?
- Are alluminium and stainless steel heavy metal alloys
- Post your conclusions to the forum in Moodle (week 5)
- Create a timeline of the evolution in the use of metals in
history and post it to your blog (you can use SmartDraw).
Tuesday
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Get in groups of 3, each one will
be an expert in one of these materials: brick, stone, iron &
steel. Prepare and interview where you will ask each other about
the characteristics, advantages, disadvantages of these materials,
and how they have been used in constructions and urban planning.
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Add new words to the Glossary in Moodle
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Thursday
- Complete the Interactive excercises for
week 6. The quiz for next week will be based on the vocabulary
covered in these exercises.
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Search the Web for information on Concrete, Glass
and Wood, and write on your blog what you found about these materials
(characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, uses, examples of their
use in architecture and urban planning). Include images. You should
include the links to the pages where you found the information.
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Chicago video. Part
I - in EGE - second floor - language lab (be on time)
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Write your opinions about the video on your blogs.
What you liked, did not like, what you learned and anything else
you would like to say.
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Those who couldn't be in the class today, please
talk to me.
Thursday
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Vocabulary Quiz available in Moodle
Week 8
Tuesday
Thursday:
- Oral presentation: Properties and Shapes - Structure
- Oral presentation: Framed structures - Wall
- During the oral presentations, you are to take notes on the
content of the presentation, and post them to your blogs.
- Listen to the Wall podcast and complete the cloze interactive
exercise.
- Pre-viewing activities for Wood:
- Read the text in this link
- View the video
about Wood (scroll down the page until you find it).
- Check this
glossary about wood
- Post-viewing activities for Wood:
- Take notes using notepad
- Get together, in Yahoo Messenger,with 1 or 2 classmates, to
complete the information on the video.
- Individually, write a summary, and publish it on your blog
- Copy unfamiliar vocabulary from the video in the glossary
in Moodle
- Oral Presentations: Color
- Work on your final projects
Thursday
- Oral presentation: Light
- Work in final projects
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Video: Chicago
Part II: Language Lab: second floor. EGE Building
Thursday:
- Work in final project
- Vocabulary Quiz 2: available in Moodle (for next week)
Week 12
Course Evaluation - Final Grades
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