We’ve been experimenting with digital storytelling in #ETMOOC over the past two weeks, so I’ve been thinking about ways to incorporate them into my Latin courses. Some closing thoughts, before we move on to digital literacy:
Today, I introduced the Latin IBs to Project 3, our digital story. …
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Loading...Bolchazy-Carducci is one of the more prolific publishers of Classical texts, and they’ve done a lot of great work for Greek and Latin teachers that has helped to make our jobs easier. In their February eLitterae newsletter, Sherwin Little’s Little’s Bits column “A Latin teacher wears many hats…” addresses the complexities of a Latin teacher’s job, which often requires us to serve in part as a “public relations specialist” to help keep our numbers strong. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Though we’ve been using the “CMS” (course management system) since grad. school, the concept of “connected learning” still seems relatively new to education. It’s only about a year ago that our school began to pursue options for what we now call an “LMS” (learning management system). …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As part of the #etmooc topic on digital storytelling, we’ve been challenged to publish our own six-word story. Because I plan on doing this sort of project with Latin students, I thought I’d offer my first story using a famous line from Vergil‘s Aeneid, where Aeneas needs to console his men and give them strength during their hardships: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Aen.…
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I remember an undergraduate survey, when I was a TA in grad school, asking them what they thought made a TA great, in their opinion. To my surprise, it wasn’t how much their TA loved what they taught or how dynamic their classrooms were that mattered most, but rather how well they knew their subject matter. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been asked to teach a “mini”-class for prospective 7th graders at one of our schools Family Visit Days, when we’ll host applicants. The classes are broken down into 20-minute slots for no more than 20 students, and we’ll run each class 6 times. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Right now I’m taking Google’s Power Searching online course and am enjoying it. In our 4th lesson, I learned that images can be dragged/dropped directly into the search bar for imaged searches (but not on tablet devices; cf. below!). I got to thinking that this could be incredibly useful in looking at Greek iconography with students. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We are in the middle of a reassessment of our honor code and have been thinking about ways to make it more visible in our daily lives on campus. With that in mind, I just read through this NYT article on cheating at Stuyvesant HS, and a few things struck me. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...About a month ago a colleague brought to my attention Bryan Caplan’s argument for the futility of foreign language instruction in this country. I don’t buy the argument, of course, but it’s challenges like these that give us a chance to re-evaluate why we believe in what we do, if read constructively (cf.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Thanks to its recent BMCR review, I recently got word of English and Irby’s new Latin reader, A Little Latin Reader (Oxford) and received my copy a few days ago. I don’t intend to fully review the book here, but I’ll offer a few brief thoughts on it. …
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