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April 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Sign Language Study Shows Multiple Brain Regions Wired for Language

An interesting study on morphology, and word order, and the parts of the brain activated when different types of sentences are used, will be of interest to Latin teachers.

Added by Latinum Institute on April 30, 2010 at 4:31am — No Comments

SCRIBBLERS, SCVLPTORS, AND SCRIBES

SALVETE! My new Latin reader, SCRIBBLERS, SCVLPTORS, AND SCRIBES, is due out this month, and Andrew said it'd be fine to post a notice; you can browse it here:

http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061259180&cm_mmc=eml-_-at-_-20098-_-20100420

I'm pretty excited about it; here's the cover "blurb":

A…

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Added by rick lafleur on April 21, 2010 at 6:26pm — No Comments

The Death of NIng

Ning have just announced on their Developer Network that they are terminating their free service - the cut off date has not yet been given, but this will effectively kill Schola, and this site as well. I will, however, convert Schola to a Premium site, if there is no alternative way to keep it alive on Ning. This at present is $10 a month, the new pricing schedule has not been announced.

I am also currently looking into alternatives as a fail safe, and am making arrangements to…

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Added by Latinum Institute on April 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 13 Comments