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Roger Travis commented on Latinum Institute's blog post Words
"Thanks, Evan! I understand what you mean about the opacity of the game terms. As we move forward, we're always trying to find ways to make things more accessible to non-gaming audiences, especially since a surprising number of our students (NB:…"
Oct 17, 2010
Roger Travis commented on Latinum Institute's blog post Words
"Among other things. :D Here's a blog-post that has some of what we're doing, and links onward to other posts that have more. The multimedia content right now is limited to fairly primitive uses of imags and Google maps, but I'm hard…"
Oct 14, 2010
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Online classics at the University of Connecticut

Salvete! I'm excited to update some information I posted a while back about the University of Connecticut's Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies program's online offerings.This spring I'll be offering an online advanced Greek course, CAMS 3101 Topics in Advanced Greek, for three credits, on selections from Plato. The course will be offered in a game-based format, in which students will participate as senior operatives on a mission to infiltrate the Academy and discover the nature of…See More
Oct 8, 2010
Roger Travis posted a blog post

Operation LAPIS: first-year Latin as an RPG inside an ARG

I thought it might be of interest to some here that together with a wonderful team of like-minded classicists, educational psychologists, and a coder or two, we'll be launching what we believe is the first-ever practomimetic (game-based) introductory language course.More at my blog, Living Epic, if your interest is piqued. We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to help iterate, as they say in the game industry.See More
Aug 16, 2010
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Online Advanced Latin at UConn: needs?

We're continuing to develop the Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies program here at the University of Connecticut in order to make it possible to complete a degree online. One important step in that process is going to happen in Spring 2011, when I will offer UConn's first online Advanced Latin course. I'm hoping to get colleagues' help in figuring out what the best schedule is on which to offer the course: whether a regular spring semester course, a highly-compressed January or May…See More
May 2, 2010
Roger Travis commented on Latinum Institute's blog post The Death of NIng
"Evan, please keep us posted on what you're doing to archive! My Video Games and Human Values Initiative is in the same boat. I'm exploring finding space and bandwidth on UConn servers, but I think the hard part is going to be migrating…"
Apr 16, 2010
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Online game-ed classics: a bit of press in the Chronicle

My current practomimetic (i.e. game) course in Horace's Roman odes, Satire 1.2, and Ovid's Amores and Ars Amatoria got a little mention on the Chronicle's "Wired Campus" blog.I'm blowing my own cornu this way in order to make the even more shameless announcement that I've just finished putting together a potted workshop called…See More
Mar 6, 2010

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Hometown/Institution:
UConn
Role in the Classics Classroom (real or virtual):
teacher
About Me:
Working at the interstices of classics and video games: see the Video Games and Human Values Initiative.
My Website:
http://vghvinet.ning.com
Favorite on-line spots for the Classics:
Rogueclassicism
Favorite on-line spots for education:
Classroom 2.0

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Online classics at the University of Connecticut

Salvete! I'm excited to update some information I posted a while back about the University of Connecticut's Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies program's online offerings.



This spring I'll be offering an online advanced Greek course, CAMS 3101 Topics in Advanced Greek, for three credits, on selections from Plato. The course will be offered in a game-based format, in which students will participate as senior operatives on a mission to infiltrate the Academy and discover the… Continue

Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:13am

Operation LAPIS: first-year Latin as an RPG inside an ARG

I thought it might be of interest to some here that together with a wonderful team of like-minded classicists, educational psychologists, and a coder or two, we'll be launching what we believe is the first-ever practomimetic (game-based) introductory language course.



More at my blog, Living Epic, if your interest is piqued. We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to help iterate, as they say in the game… Continue

Posted on August 16, 2010 at 8:24am

Online Advanced Latin at UConn: needs?

We're continuing to develop the Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies program here at the University of Connecticut in order to make it possible to complete a degree online. One important step in that process is going to happen in Spring 2011, when I will offer UConn's first online Advanced Latin course. I'm hoping to get colleagues' help in figuring out what the best schedule is on which to offer the course: whether a regular spring semester course, a highly-compressed January or May… Continue

Posted on May 2, 2010 at 6:33am

Online game-ed classics: a bit of press in the Chronicle

My current practomimetic (i.e. game) course in Horace's Roman odes, Satire 1.2, and Ovid's Amores and Ars Amatoria got a little mention on the Chronicle's "Wired Campus" blog.



I'm blowing my own cornu this way in order to make the even more shameless announcement that I've just finished putting together a… Continue

Posted on March 6, 2010 at 6:29am

Seeking students for an online game-method Latin 1 pilot

I'm doing some very early work on developing an online Latin 1 that uses the game-method I'm pioneering in Operation KTHMA, the role-playing Greek historians course. The central idea will be to use a role-playing game-story, with its established (and addictive) model of progression, as a metaphor for inherently engaging and interactive progress in the Latin skills of reading, writing, speaking, and… Continue

Posted on October 7, 2009 at 10:00am

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