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YESSSSS... you guessed my secret plan - not so secret now - I found an early 19th-century book by an anonymous "master of Trinity College, Cambridge" who put 30 Aesop's fables into elegiac verse form in order to inspire people to stop using Ovid a...
Oooh, this is fun. Here's another one:
http://elegiacus.blogspot.com/search/label/colorcoded
Evan, here's an example of the color-coding that I think would work for elegiac couplets - I'm curious what you think! To me, this is the best way to help students see how the elements (bigger than feet) are put together to create these lines. :-)...
I think you are really on to something with visual sense and, especially, with kinesthesia, Evan!
In a related way, I've really enjoyed doing color-coding to help students start to "feel" the different prosodic shapes of Latin words; I've been ma...
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Please help evaluate online materials for new textbook
I'd like to ask for people's help in setting some priorities and strategies for the auxiliary materials I'm developing for my "Aesop's Fables in Latin" textbook (now listed as forthcoming at Bolchazy-Carducci - it will be out in January!). The book contains glossary and vocabulary lists and notes for each fable - but I'll be developing a wide range of materials online that were either too bulky to include in the book (detailed grammar commentary, additiona… Continue
Posted on December 13, 2008 at 1:34pm —
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- Hometown/Institution:
- University of Oklahoma
- Role in the Classics Classroom (real or virtual):
- teacher
- About Me:
- I teach online courses in mythology and folklore at the University of Oklahoma, and Latin and Greek are my hobbies! :-)
- My Website:
- http://bestlatin.net
- Favorite on-line spots for the Classics:
- I LOVE GOOGLE BOOKS!
- Favorite on-line spots for education:
- Wikipedia: it's essential.
- Best/worst computer-related classroom happening:
- I want to brag here about my genius student, Randy Hoyt - he built the Greek online word processor at TypeGreek.com and the amazing Rotating Content Tool at RotateContent.com. These are two tools I couldn't do without! Although I had fun teaching in the classroom, I have definitely had my best classroom experiences via the world of computers, seeing my students at their very best!
Comment Wall (25 comments)
- At 4:07pm on July 3, 2009,
blake gwinn said… - Hi Laura,
I was just listening to your set 120, the audio is cut up, just wanted to let you know.
Have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVsnlHhz2qU very nice
Thanks for all,
Blake
- At 5:07pm on June 20, 2009,
Jerry Proffitt said…
- Laura, Thank you for your help. The material is adapted from Scott and Horne's 1936 editon of Latin Book One. You can write to me here at eLatin or directly at jerryproffitt@hotmail.com . Thanks for letting me and others know about the Tarheel Reader. Jerry
- At 7:07pm on May 30, 2009, blake gwinn said…
- Just how man hands do you have.........?
Thank you, for so much! I've, got to buy your books, I have been looking all over town here for any Latin texts, oddly there are none to be found..... I guess they don't call it a dead language for nothing.
I like your one big file, idea, if I could load it all as one into a mp3 player, Great!
The one big problem I've had with many mp3 DL's of Latin is the intro's, distracting you from your purpose, or the hosts blurb at the back.
As to writing books, in Latin at tarheel, I'd love to see "go dog go" "green eggs and ham" I wonder how or if they would give permission..........................
For a translation online nonprofit.
My approach to latin has been to get a lotof exposure to it without straining to make sense of it, and only then, struggle to puzzle it outand then crack the books. More like we learned English, we heard it all day, and picked it up.
I've tried to sit down and Study a language, and got bogged down in all the fluff.
Damn if i don't prattle on, online as well! How sad for me!
- At 1:52pm on May 25, 2009, blake gwinn said…
- Hi Laura,
Ah much better for me, I do feel guity, though.
Nothing worse than a whining, Latin student!
I'll check back on the site, rcvd a notice that site had been edited, that may have been the glitch.
On vista, w/ explorer, I see an audio bar click and hear the bar last time was blank.
Thank you again!
- At 9:06pm on May 24, 2009, blake gwinn said…
- You are too kind, Sadly I am unable to see ? Audio on the site..... getting a blank box with an x where the bar would be. I 'll try later.
- At 1:55am on May 23, 2009, blake gwinn said…
- Hi it is little ol me, I have found my way to your page at last, if i had one more window open on this pc it would explode.
working on three other projects, while your Latin voice soothes my savaged nerves. Thanks for all, you are now firmly among my Hero's!
Take care, Blake
- At 9:34am on March 21, 2009,
Andrew Reinhard said…
- I killed the spammer. I'm starting to get 1-2 a week...
- At 5:25pm on January 22, 2009,
maximus said… - Ave, Laura,
It appears that you the first I should thank for this site. I have recently joined and am very optimistic about finding quality Latin and Greekaudio of the classics.
Bene vale
- At 12:44pm on November 30, 2008,
Jeremy O'Clair said…
- Yes, Russian was my first foreign language experience. It was quite helpful when I started learning Greek. Thanks for the best wishes with job hunting. I'll be finishing either in the spring or summer, though it looks like summer. It might be more difficult hunting a Latin position when I won't have diploma in hand until August! But we'll see what happens.
- At 8:29pm on July 16, 2008,
eric said… - Laura,
http://www.frcoulter.com/latin/latinlover/latin_03_18_06.mp3
Here is a great Latinist. Fr. Reginald Foster talking about :
"Beware the Ides of March and Fr. Foster's tour of Rome about the sites Caesar's life and death."
Fr. Foster knows nothing about the web so Fr. Coulters' name is in the Url. Ides of March
My home school kids love this program. They can sometimes keep up with his verbal translations
Eric
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My colleagues and I looked into 2nd Life a little for a simulation/game we wanted to construct for a civ. course; we were intimidated by both the cost and the start-up investment of creating spaces. What we decided to do instead was create the gam...
Whew - all done, and the site is up and running again properly.
Also, Schola has had a makeover, and now looks much sweeter.
Notice how robust I look now! Latin has given me roses in my cheeks, a spring in my step, the wind in my hair! Clearly, Latin does a body good!
See how pale, wan, and wistful I was before learning Latin? I had to subsist on salads of modern languages: wisps of French, slices of Spanish, the occasional crouton of Geman -- with, of course, hefty chunks of English (grilled a l'anglaise, barb...
Latin still lay in the future -- Kathy and I were interested in codes & ciphers at the time.
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