DAY 1 April 21, 2008

Activities for Day 1 include the following:

• Orientation to the Education Building and introduction to staff
  
• Setting up of personal blog and work space
• Introduction to blogspot and podcasting
  
• Project outline for the following days
  

My research for the next day and a half will be related to Dr. Hlynka's work on the Mazepa legend, and to the presentation we will give to a group of schoolchildren next Wednesday, April the 30th, at St. Andrew's College.

My task is to read several adaptations of the Mazepa legend, as found at the site for The Baldwin Project - a site which delivers "yesterday's classics to today's children" - and to create an appropriate and informative version to present to the school group. This undertaking illustrates well how Ukrainian history and culture has permeated both popular and high Western culture to a significant degree. My version of Mazepa's story will be examined this Wednesday, April 23rd.