Now that I’ve working more with design thinking and have learned how powerful of a mindset it can be for creativity and innovation, I’ve been trying to infuse it into my Latin classrooms. It’s not always easy to move through the entire design thinking process in a Latin course, but I believe it can be done—and done well—in at least a few ways.…
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Loading...Thanks to inspiration from the Power Searching with Google course, I developed a digital Classical scavenger hunt for our last JCL club meeting of the year that takes advantage of Google’s search-by-image feature. The experiment went well, and I’m looking forward to integrating the the use of images and Google Forms into my Latin classes next year.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my Latin III course, where we abandon the traditional textbooks in favor of a reading approach to cover advanced grammar, I ask students to keep an “Running Latin Commentary” (RLC) for all the work that we do together. This RLC is used to record notes on grammar, vocab.,…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...While in graduate school, the topic of “active” Latin (i.e. using spoken Latin in various ways) rarely came up, if at all, so it was something of a surprise to find so many proponents of it at the high school level.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve had a great time participating in Twitter chats like “CAedchat“, with hashtag #caedchat, which happens Sunday evenings at 8pm PST and provides a forum for CA teachers to discuss current topics in education and pedagogy. As far as I know, there exists no current live chat devoted to Latin and the ancient world, and so capitalizing on the popularity of Twitter chats like this one (cf.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I finally picked up a Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, which I’ve had my eye on since I had the chance to work with one at the Boulder GAFE Summit last August (cf. my notes taken on a Chromebook). I’m a big fan of Google Apps and have transitioned the majority of my work into my Drive account, so it’s certainly a sensible purchase.…
(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. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I just came across this article on the divergence of American English in the Great Lakes region. I’m not familiar with the dialect, but its vowel system is apparently diverging from standard American English more quickly than other dialects; cf. words like cot and caught with different vowels, unlike in my own dialect.…
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